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Topic: Wiz of Oz
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Andrew Woodcock
Film God
Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted March 21, 2015 03:13 PM
No Steven, not me, no relation or friend etc etc.ha ha
Just someone I have purchased from on a number of occasions and whilst the items are never the cheapest, they are some of the very best I own or indeed could ever own now that Derann are sadly a fading memory.
As far as this particular print, I cannot vouch for it sadly Steven, I am simply going off past purchases in my prediction that it will have no noticeable damage at all to the print when projecting it.
As for the colour discrepancies, it's a difficult one to judge given that it's a B/W and Colour film all in one.
Therefore this has to be printed on colour stock and, as we know, B/W prints don't look quite right on colour stock.
When I look at the colour sequences though, they simply look magnificent to my eyes so for me personally, I would not be deterred by the slight bluish tones to the early sequences.
I truly believe that if this is a film you love, you probably now, won't find a better one on Super 8.
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Michael De Angelis
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1261
From: USA
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted March 21, 2015 05:36 PM
This film has a green tint because the print run was developed in one shot by using the Kodak LPP low fade color film stock. LPP makes the black & white portions of the film biased towards the blue/green color spectrum.
My film has the same tint, and I do not know if the earlier film prints used Agfa stock.
There are advantages of using LPP, because it was Kodak's best low fade stock that will not fade for fifty years, and when LPP is properly printed it can equal 35mm IB Technicolor. As you can notice that the Derann print has rich color saturation, and it replicates IB Technicolor.
The B&W sections of Oz were sepia toned when the film was released in 1939. The reason was to tell the story of a bleak, dreary prairie life before transitioning to the Technicolor OZ. There is a theatrical film stock reel changeover that is precisely made when Dorothy walks through the door to OZ. Derann would have needed to print the film on a Black & White film stock to achieve the best results. The Agfa stock would have been closest to replicating the Sepia effect.
After WWII, MGM used a Black & White film neg. for these sequences, and until the film was released to video for the Fiftieth Anniversary is when the sepia sections were restored.
This print is sharp, beautiful, and very expensive. It's your decision on how much you are willing to spend, but eventually everything becomes available.
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[ March 21, 2015, 10:14 PM: Message edited by: Michael De Angelis ]
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