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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted August 22, 2011 02:23 AM

I am watching several reels which the seller does not have any idea about the films if they are sound or silent, color or B/W.

What I can find that all films have an original price tag: DM 28 (or may be DM 38).

By seeing this and with the help of German members here, with the above price tag, what sort of films I will get:

a. 50' or 200'?
b. Color or B/W?
c. Sound or silent?

thanks

ps: I knew that DM 149 is always for 400', color and sound.

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Joerg Polzfusz
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 815
From: Berlin, Germany, Europe, Earth, Solar System
Registered: Apr 2006

posted August 22, 2011 07:00 AM

If the seller has no clue, then simply make him measure the reels' diameters. And he only needs working eyes to differ between b&w and colour!

As the seller claims to have no clue, be prepared that the films are ultra-short digests, that the films are all red by now (if colour) or that you'll only get empty reels!

Prices at Quelle in 1975:
66m B/W no sound = 26,90DM
33m B/W mag-sound = 32,50DM
17m colour no sound = 19,90DM
(Above are "revue"-films only available at Quelle. Add approx. 5 to 10DM for films from other companies.
However the prices in the early 80s drastically dropped when marketing, ufa, ... stopped making Super8-prints.)

Jörg

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Osi Osgood
Film God

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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted August 22, 2011 10:20 AM

Fascinating that black and white no sound cost more than color no sound!

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