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Topic: Sons of the Desert prints
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted April 05, 2017 11:57 AM
Hey, all you overseas collectors ...
I'm wanting to find out two things ...
1. Did UK and otherwise overseas companies release prints of "Sons of the Desert"?
2. What is the image quality of those prints?
The reason why I ask is that I'm kinda fed up with my Blackhawk print of this title, which has always had a fuzzy image to it, but i have heard that it was released overseas and from other negative sources, which gives me the hope that our overseas friends may have lucked out on sharper prints.
I also understand that, thought they were released, they might have been edited slightly as well, which i don't have a problem with as, I can always insert the necessary Blackhawk footage into the other print, though image quality will suffer in those circumstances.
Screenshot comparisons might help as well.
So, I ask all of you fine folks, the above question ...
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
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posted April 06, 2017 11:02 AM
Thanks Mike, that helps, but how is the sharpnes of the Walton print in comparison to the Blackhawk?
I ended up keeping an older print of "Sons", between two Blackhawk editions as, both prints were taken from, the very same negative, (negative scratching at the same places was a dead give-away), but the older one was printed slightly darker and so there is a little more deatil than on the newer of the two prints, which was a little brighter, but facial qualities, details on clothes and such, were better on the earlier Blackhawk.
This brings up another question ...
Did Blackhaek also release this on Standard 8mm? If so, perhaps thier standard 8mm copies fared a little better than the super 8 copies?
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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