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Andreas Eggeling
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posted November 14, 2005 01:28 PM

Hi all,

I won an auction for my own collection, offered was "Star Trek IV" 8mm english optical sound feature . When I got the films I found out that they are incomplete and that
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reel one is with asian subtitles (I think it is Thai) and the second reel, which I think it is the 3rd final reel, is dubbed in spanish without subtitles.

I said to the seller that I will cancel the deal but to save money for p&p we decided that I try to sell at ebay again with clear description and he will pay me the difference back.

But make eBay sense? And if so, where? Ebay-Spain or UK/USA??
And how much will be the film worth?

What do you think?

Thanks for answers in advance.

Andreas

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Winbert Hutahaean
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posted November 14, 2005 07:47 PM

Andreas,

Are you sure that Thai characters?. If so then it is new for me that Thailand had ever had 8mm. This must be airline prints, musn;t it?

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Andreas Eggeling
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posted November 15, 2005 05:07 PM

Hi Winbert,

it isn´t definitive not chinese, japanese, hindu.

The letters remembers me at thai filmposters, but could also be possible that it is korean.

Andreas

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Winbert Hutahaean
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posted November 15, 2005 06:26 PM

Andreas,
Now you bring me a lot of possibilities [Razz]

. I am originally Asian (more precisely Indonesian), that's why I am so interested if it is true that there were Asian countries ever released commercial 8mm (beside Japan, China and India of course). Since as far as I know, Asia was far left behind on this format.

cheers

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Andreas Eggeling
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posted November 16, 2005 03:59 AM

Winbert,

I have made pics from a editor (not screen), so the quality is not the best, but you can red the letters. Do you know what it is?

This is a Airline-print, so I think it was normally that asian airlines used super8 for showing films.

regards
Andreas

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Winbert Hutahaean
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posted November 16, 2005 04:20 AM

Andreas,
Those are Kanji characters...so Japanese!....no wonder...

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Andreas Eggeling
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posted November 16, 2005 04:43 AM

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.... ohhh ... [Big Grin]

thanks Winbert for help .... there were so much strange signs between I never seen, so I thought it couldn´t be japanese.....
but now I learned something new... [Smile]

... now for sale at ebay

Andreas

[ November 16, 2005, 12:02 PM: Message edited by: Andreas Eggeling ]

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John Clancy
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posted November 16, 2005 05:26 AM

Not asian at all, definitely Klingon.

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Andreas Eggeling
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posted November 16, 2005 05:53 AM

... lol ... and for numbers arabic ...

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Winbert Hutahaean
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posted November 16, 2005 06:09 AM

..is that Muhammad Ali in Star Trek IV... [Big Grin]

(second photo, man on the left)

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Jan Bister
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posted November 16, 2005 11:28 PM

The Japanese are crazy people... they use three different alphabets all at the same time... Kanji, Katakana and Hiragana. [Eek!]

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Andreas Eggeling
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posted November 17, 2005 04:11 PM

.... interesting .... I learned more .....
.... I will ask my female singing teacher (she is japanese) between the different ...

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Jan Bister
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posted November 18, 2005 12:28 AM

I always wanted to learn Japanese... especially when I got into importing video games for my classic Sega consoles from Japan, games that were never available in US/UK/Europe in English language. Playing them isn't the problem, but it sure would be neat to actually understand everything now and then. Ohwell. [Smile]

But I digress - wait, how did we get on this topic on an 8mm buy/sell forum anyway [Eek!]

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