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I recently received a 16mm copy from the USA of Elvis Presley's 1968 film, "Live A Littlie, Love a Little". The seller described it as being LPP with beautiful color, indeed, he/she did include a still showing the clear edge with LPP marking, however, there was also a further still showing black edged perforations. At the time I thought nothing of this. All the stills did. indeed, show wonderful colour.
On receipt , even before a bench check, there was an obvious change of stock towards the end of the first 1600ft spool. A bench inspection revealed the change of stock around the 900ft mark. In a mid shot join the film became black edged perforation stock, the sound track and the beautiful colour remaining.
Checking on the Internet revealed that this stock was Technicolor, and it further said that all IB had been phased out by early 1974. The LPP has a date code of 1983. I am assuming that it is possible that severe damage was caused to part of the original print and as Technicolor was no longer available for re-printing a new section with LPP was inserted. There is no difference at the change on projection, picture and sound quality remain as before.
Do fellow members agree with my thoughts?
History of 16mm Technicolor Printing (paulivester.com)
On receipt , even before a bench check, there was an obvious change of stock towards the end of the first 1600ft spool. A bench inspection revealed the change of stock around the 900ft mark. In a mid shot join the film became black edged perforation stock, the sound track and the beautiful colour remaining.
Checking on the Internet revealed that this stock was Technicolor, and it further said that all IB had been phased out by early 1974. The LPP has a date code of 1983. I am assuming that it is possible that severe damage was caused to part of the original print and as Technicolor was no longer available for re-printing a new section with LPP was inserted. There is no difference at the change on projection, picture and sound quality remain as before.
Do fellow members agree with my thoughts?
History of 16mm Technicolor Printing (paulivester.com)
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