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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted December 15, 2012 12:56 PM

Did "ABC Films" ever use international film labs for they're distribution of theier film prints overseas?

I know that some studios did do that, (which is why, while U.S. Ken Films STAR WARS prints are by and large, faded, the internationl Marketing Film prints of STAR WARS were printed, in large part, on agfa and Fuji), so perhaps ABC Films did this as well?

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Winbert Hutahaean
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From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted December 15, 2012 03:29 PM

Osi, you are confused between TITLES and COMPANY LABEL. When you are talking "Star Wars" it is indeed the same title but released by different companies, i.e Marketing vs Ken. So it was obviously printed by different labs.

Perhaps the correct example is WDHM where in the UK was printed by Bucks Lab but in the USA was by (?) Maritz Lab.

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Hugh Thompson Scott
Film God

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From: Gt. Clifton,Cumbria,England
Registered: Jan 2012

posted December 15, 2012 03:35 PM

I do believe that there were quite a few labs that printed the 200'
"Star Wars" as they varied in density etc which was pointed out in Super 8 collector.I think the 400' "Superman" was another
candidate,as collectors found when trying to match print with
the 3x400'.

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