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Topic: Star Wars 200' vs 400' and my film collecting
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David Coppola
Film Handler
Posts: 75
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2014
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posted January 21, 2015 06:31 AM
Wayyyy back in the 70s when this was released by Ken Films and my Super 8mm interest was at it's peak, Star Wars was released. Local Two Guys stores had the 200' B&W silent/Color silent/ and Color Sound versions. These were also offered in the Famous Monsters magazines. I started with the B&W one. Soon after I got a sound projector. Keep in mind that anything I got, my mom bought for me, as I was a very pre teen. Eventually I was lucky to get the Color/Sound version and thought it was like the second coming! Soon after the 400' version was mine with much more footage. But I noticed that the discussion between Luke and Obi Wan had been drastically altered. Me, having very rudimentary knowledge of splicing and editing, used my Hervic splicer and added the much longer sequence from the 200' onto the 400' version and it came out perfectly. I must have shown that 400' film countless times indoors and outdoors to very enthusiastic viewers. My Super 8 interest lasted till around 1980 when teenager interests took over... ;-) What I find interesting now is that a second 400' version was made as well as a scope version and 2 Empire releases. I always wondered why Ken, Castle/Universal 8 never offered full length versions of the films in their catalogues. Granted, it would have been expensive, but still, I am sure that some would have been purchased. I remember in 79 or so, a company called Marketing Films came about offering Paramount films in 22', 400', 3x400' and full length features. Of which I drooled over the prospect of owning Saturday Night Fever (feature), which was and still is one of my favorite films. In the late 80s/early 90s, I started working at an AV staging Company and got into 16mm collecting and eventually acquired an Eiki 4000p Xenon projector and many features from the Big Reel. Seeing that film was really dying out, I unloaded all of my equipment, while I could still get a good price for it all. In some ways I regret it, but in others, I made the wise choice at the time. I did hang on to a few things, like the Starsky and Hutch 16mm pilot movie (one of my all time favs)).... and my 400' ,Super 8mm, self edited, Star Wars......;-)
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