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Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on August 19, 2008, 11:36 PM:

Hi all

I have a bunch of Universal 8 releases (those in the latest box and 2 x 400"). They were purchased in 1997.

Because in 1997 super 8mm had become collectible items therefore I made carefully a note to each title regarding the respective conditions incl. the color.

I do still remember having a communication with Jean Marc of this foum back in 2003 regarding the color condition of the films. At the, time I opened all notes to the films and told JM that they were just colorful and good. JM told me that it was very rare Universal 8 releases would held the colors and I kept telling JM that it was good (due to what's written on my note?.

After this I never played the film and just keep the films for the sake of beautiful artwork.

Last night I took one of them, i.e Jaws (2 x 400") and showed it in my newly installed home cinema.

What a SURPRISE!!!... everything was seen just a nice red wine color. They were all gone faded. [Mad]

I knew they were printed on Eastman stock and nothing much we can do. But having seen the pinkish colors like that just make me [Mad]

and again... [Mad]

I never knew that the colors turns that fast as I still keep my 1997's note on this film and in hte color box it's written "beautiful"

I am therefore curios having known that some members here are still having the Universal 8 releases with good and moreover, beautiful colors. Osi, how is your Battle Star Galactica now?

cheers,

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on August 20, 2008, 12:45 AM:

Dear Winbert, sorry to read about your discovery. Now you can join the lot of collectors who, like myself, keep looking for better prints of old time favorites.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on August 23, 2008, 07:35 PM:

My Battlestar Glactica still has spot on color. This one is printed on KODAK SP, and, if that is stored properly, will tend to hold up well.

Anytime I get a KODAK SP or Ole Eastman print with still surviving good color, I immediately put them in cold storage, as I'm sure that they won't stay that way long, for just the reason that you found out.

Now, in the case of my print of "High Plains Drifter" 2X400 Universal, it isn't a throw out yet, but it certainly has turned, but it was already on it's way when I first got it.

Interestingly, I just bought a print of "1941" 2X400ft Universal, and it has just the slightest shift of color, (that is, no absolutely perfect blacks, between black and the slightest brown), and this one, while the same Eastman as "High Plains Drifter" Also interesting, the Universal 8 logo on the near perfect "1941" is far more warmed, while the rest of the print is quite nice.

How has other peoples prints of "High Plains Drifter" held up? I bet, if there's has great color, it's on KODAK SP.

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