8mm Forum: Alien Derann Scope Full Feature Wanted

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Posted by Lee Purkis (Member # 2523) on September 26, 2011, 03:53 PM:

Willing to pay £400 for a very nice condition copy, will go to £500 if it's like new .

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on September 27, 2011, 08:53 PM:

Good lkuck on finding a print. It took me years to find my print, but it was well worth it!

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on September 28, 2011, 12:58 PM:

Is this print very rare, then?

Posted by Larry Arpin (Member # 744) on September 28, 2011, 01:12 PM:

The last time I saw this was on Ricky Daniels' list and went for 500 pounds. A 16mm print showed up but was on 79 Fuji which is not low fade but it didn't look bad. Our very own Doug Meltzer has a print. I know. I 'stupidly' sold it to him. At the time, I wasn't set up for scope and needed the money and sold it. Oh well. Another will show up eventually. And yes it is pretty rare.

Posted by Lee Purkis (Member # 2523) on September 28, 2011, 05:34 PM:

If ya don't ask ya don't get. £500.00 is parked up waiting.

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on September 28, 2011, 08:55 PM:

Oh, the shame, the remorse, the guilt I've felt in the nine plus years since I bought Larry's print. I'm sure I'll get over it someday!

Doug

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on September 28, 2011, 10:20 PM:

Thewre there Doug, it will be alright.

Ya see Lee, Doug and I (and many other fellow collectors) belong to a support group of film collectors that, though we are happy to own such rare prints, we have remorse for our fellow collectors and feel great sorrow and guilt and ...

awww! who am I kidding?!

I do hope you find one. One thing for certain, all of these Derann Alien features are on low fade stock and a part of those "golden years" of Derann releases.

Posted by John Clancy (Member # 49) on September 29, 2011, 03:26 AM:

Beware that some prints are better than others. There is a marked difference between both my copies with the first run print being superior to the later one.

Posted by Ralf Hoff (Member # 36) on September 29, 2011, 03:53 AM:

Aahhh Alien full feature. I also have this print in my collection, very nice quality. Togehter with Aliens and Alien 3 it will make a nice triple night.

I saw a print for 199 Euro in a list for two months or so ago, but it was already sold.

I wish you good luck for the huntig [Wink]

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Ralf Hoff

Cine 8-16 - the magazine for film making and film collecting
http://www.celluloidfilm.de

Posted by Gary Crawford (Member # 67) on September 29, 2011, 09:46 AM:

Yes..I had been looking for Alien for years..and finally got very lucky...got a really sharp nice stereo print about three years ago....price was 250 dollars. a very good bargain...lucky bargain. I may be mistaken about the price...could have been 300 , but I don't think so. Still on its original reels and original box.

Posted by Lee Purkis (Member # 2523) on October 28, 2011, 07:37 AM:

Still looking to buy a copy of Alien.

Posted by Paul Browning (Member # 2715) on October 28, 2011, 09:02 AM:

Hi, looks like your dream as come true today ,alien feature super on ebay, derann print from someone in canada.Good luck with your biding.

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on October 28, 2011, 10:37 AM:

Good spot Paul.

But I am just wondering, since Lee is lookig for a scope print while this seller says;

quote:
"Stereo sound presented in a 16X9 aspect ratio. You do not require a special lens to view this film."

were there two types of print released by Derann?

Posted by Ralf Hoff (Member # 36) on October 28, 2011, 10:50 AM:

Paul and Winbert,

the film the seller offers is not the first film Alien by Ridley Scott.

It is the second one Aliens from the director James Cameron, Both titels are released by Derann, but Aliens was not a CS film, so the super 8 Version is also letterboxed.

Ralf Hoff

Cine 8-16 - the magazine for film making and film collecting
http://www.celluloidfilm.de

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on October 28, 2011, 12:49 PM:

Beautiful print though. I saw that auction. Nice screenshots that display the full range of colors. I wonder which film stcok it was aon. Always go for AGFA if the film was on AGFA or LPP.

Posted by Lee Purkis (Member # 2523) on October 30, 2011, 12:41 PM:

Still looking [Smile]

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