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Bill Brandenstein
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1632
From: California
Registered: Aug 2007

posted March 17, 2009 12:23 AM

Anyone own this on Super 8? (Dan, I think you picked up the '34 version recently.) If so, the 1934 version starring Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon (cut for Super 8 from about 5 reels to four) would likely be the one. I'd love to know anything about this - quality, entertainment value, editing losses, whatever.

Our personal favorite has probably never been released on Super 8. The 1982 made-for-TV movie, starring Anthony Andrews and Jane Seymour, transcends its lowly TV status. Anyone ever heard of this on film? Like an airline optical print (help, Osi!)?

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Panayotis A. Carayannis
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008

posted March 17, 2009 04:55 PM

I have a copy of THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL. It is complete at 95 minutes (5x400).If I am not wrong,it comes from Thunderbird. It is not the best print in the world, I'd say from average to good, and printed on color stock (a very slight sepia).No cuts. As for its entertainment value,well... it is one of the classics,with top actors, production values and action,and you will definitely like it, even if you are not a pro-royalist !!

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Osi Osgood
Film God

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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005

posted March 17, 2009 05:20 PM

Sorry Bill, I don't have any info on that specific title, but it is possible that it is on optical sound super 8, as "Izzy & Moe"
(Jackie Gleason/Art Carney) made it onto Super 8 optical, and that was a TV film.

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Bill Brandenstein
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: California
Registered: Aug 2007

posted March 18, 2009 07:48 PM

Panayotis, thank you for the kindly suppplied information! That is quite helpful.

Osi, if you haven't heard of a Super 8 print of the TV Pimpernel, probably nobody has! Izzy & Moe was a couple of years later, so that's encouraging. However, I can't imagine that it's anything but an odd rarity -- not a lot of current TV made it to Super 8 for any reason, right? Anyway, thank you, friend.

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Dan Lail
Film God