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Topic: wanted: LIfe and Times of Grizzly Adams
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted August 12, 2011 01:38 PM
I wouldn't be surprised Steve ...
They also used much of the same storyline for "The Adventures of Frontier Fremont" which, once again, starred Dan Haggerty, but unlike the originla "Grizzly Adams" film, this "Fremont" had the fellow that would play "Mad Jack" in the TV series.
So, in those two films, you had the nucleus of the cast for the TV show. "Grizzly Adams" (the feature) had haggerty and Don Shanks (who would play the indian friend "Nakoma" in the TV series) and "Fremont" had the fellow who would play Mad Jack (his name escapes me at the moment).
By the way, "Frontier Fremont" was released originally in scope, as the credit sequence (and Sunn Classic logo), on my super 8 print, is in scope, then changing to flat format for the rest of the print.
I'm so dead set to find that film because with good color, I would love to see how good it would look ...
I have that feature in fact on super 8 optical sound, but the blacks have faded to reddish brown, but the rest of the print has maintained most of it's original color. I have the film (Grizzly Adams) on DVD, and the print they used must have been a 16MM release print to theaters as it has the characteristic "spots" for reel changes. (curiously enough, the optical sound super 8 feature doesn't have any of these throughout the print) ...
but the person who transferred this print must have used a cyan filter on the print, (must have has some slight fade to it), and it's curious as to how the color, while it would appear to be Ok, is actually quite muddled, as well as the image.
During the credit sequence, Adams walks past a field of wild daisys and on the DVD, it's just a yellowish green "mush". The super 8 optical feature, however, has clearly deliniated individual flowers. Another example is at the beginning of the final reel of the feature. Adams is wearing some leather buckskins. he has Indian beadwork down the sides of the pants. On the DVD, the colors are a mushy white or grey, but even with the fade on the Super 8 print, you can see gorgeous turqiose blue, red and yellow.
Now, though my print does maintain a certain amount of it's color, ou can see why I would love to find an unfaded print of it ...
... and it's not a impossibility. I searched fore years for an unfaded print of the optical super 8 feature "Conduct Unbecoming" (Micheal York, 1975), and had no luck for years, and finally one popped up for sale! It's a gorgeous print ...
so I am sure that there is no doubt a unfaded print of the "Grizzly Adams" feature out there , possibly forgotten in someones collection.
Fingers remain crossed until I find it ... as Snow White sang ...
"Someday, my PRINTS will come ..."
(Hyuk yuk yuk!)
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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