My wife is a big fan of the *M*A*S*H* TV series. I bought her a 16mm episode for one of her Christmas presents. We finally got around to screening it last night.
This was the episode Hanky Panky where BJ Hunnicutt is comforting a nurse who just received a "Dear Jane" letter from her husband back-home and the… "comfort" violates the bounds of his Marital Fidelity (-so to speak…). Unlike many of the *M*A*S*H* doctors, this isn't his usual style and much of the episode is coping with the after-affects and regret.
This was a TV print: including black seconds of film followed by brief countdowns inserted several times where the commercials were supposed to run. It's a shame it's not in the original can: it would be nice to see TV station markings on it. I could imagine a real connoisseur of the series wanting something like this even without projecting it.
I was a little nervous about this one: the eBay seller described it as "plenty of color left". In some translations this becomes "red as a firetruck" once up on screen, but I'd rate the color here as good to excellent. Frankly, if I bought a new print and it showed up in this condition, I'd be fine with that.
Now, there’s another issue to consider here: a film collector gifting his non-collector wife a can of film has certain overtones of a fisherman giving his wife a row-boat! She just may jump to the conclusion that he’s really getting something purely for himself and the Yuletide Chill will come inside the house too!
-so I did something about that. Bear in mind I did put the film in the gift box with the picture facing downwards: -there’s nothing like that half-second of Christmas Adrenaline before I told her to turn the reel over!
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This was the episode Hanky Panky where BJ Hunnicutt is comforting a nurse who just received a "Dear Jane" letter from her husband back-home and the… "comfort" violates the bounds of his Marital Fidelity (-so to speak…). Unlike many of the *M*A*S*H* doctors, this isn't his usual style and much of the episode is coping with the after-affects and regret.
This was a TV print: including black seconds of film followed by brief countdowns inserted several times where the commercials were supposed to run. It's a shame it's not in the original can: it would be nice to see TV station markings on it. I could imagine a real connoisseur of the series wanting something like this even without projecting it.
I was a little nervous about this one: the eBay seller described it as "plenty of color left". In some translations this becomes "red as a firetruck" once up on screen, but I'd rate the color here as good to excellent. Frankly, if I bought a new print and it showed up in this condition, I'd be fine with that.
Now, there’s another issue to consider here: a film collector gifting his non-collector wife a can of film has certain overtones of a fisherman giving his wife a row-boat! She just may jump to the conclusion that he’s really getting something purely for himself and the Yuletide Chill will come inside the house too!
-so I did something about that. Bear in mind I did put the film in the gift box with the picture facing downwards: -there’s nothing like that half-second of Christmas Adrenaline before I told her to turn the reel over!
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-it’s all about presentation!
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