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Michael O'Regan
Film God

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From: Essex, UK
Registered: Oct 2007

posted May 17, 2010 02:06 PM

Was the Derann release in stereo?
How was the quality?

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 17, 2010 02:17 PM

Hi Michael,

This should help:

Aliens Super-8 Print Review

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Michael O'Regan
Film God

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From: Essex, UK
Registered: Oct 2007

posted May 17, 2010 02:43 PM

Excellent, Steve.
Thanks.
[Big Grin]

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Gary Crawford
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Manassas, VA. USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 17, 2010 03:07 PM

My print has outstanding sharpness...especially considering it's masked somewhat to give the original aspect ratio. color is dead on. Some scenes might be a bit dark, but not bad....my sound is stereo and very good.

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Douglas Meltzer
Moderator

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From: New York, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 17, 2010 04:42 PM

One of my top ten prints!

.....which reminds me of a certain film critic who bestowed the line "one of the top ten films of the year" on 14 films that particular year.

Doug

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Alan Rik
Film God

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From: New York City, NY, USA
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posted May 17, 2010 05:36 PM

Mine stangely enough...was in mono! [Frown]

One day i'll put it right. [Smile]

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Adrian Winchester
Film God

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From: Croydon, London, UK
Registered: Aug 2004

posted May 17, 2010 07:37 PM

I was delighted with mine. I can't recall the separation between the two channels being all that obvious, though.

I know that around this time, if reels with substandard stereo were returned, Derann had to turn them into mono prints, which could explain Rik's.

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Ralf Hoff
Expert Film Handler

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From: Germany
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 18, 2010 03:06 AM

Someone has posted it on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ALIENS-Super-8mm-Colour-Sound-Full-Feature-/230476083961?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Photography_VintagePhotography_VintagePhotoAccessories&hash=item35a971f2f9

[Wink]

Ralf Hoff

Cine 8-16 - the magazine for film making and film collecting
http://www.celluloidfilm.de

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John Clancy
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Cornwall
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 18, 2010 03:10 AM

I have a first run print of this title and although I re-recorded the sound years ago I can report that the original Derann stereo track was the best I'd heard up to that time. Of course having genuine Kodak stripe probably helped but it did display a bit of Dolby Stereo decoding in places.

My second print still had very good sound but not as good as the original print. Re-recorded that as well.

Both prints are very similar but the first run print does not have the wear and neg dust of the later print. Picture quality was never brilliant on this title but it is good.

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