Continuing the discussion about Master and Commander in the sales section, I thought I'd start a new topic here.
Brian points out that;
"Lab North seemed more careful than Rank as there were not many "reversed image" prints sold off at reduced priced after they took over."
Which is a very fair point. I think I'm right though that the main guy who did the printing moved to Northern Labs as Rank closed, so it was the same person responsible for printing. I'm sure Derek stated that in a newsletter at the time. This is where we need Ged Jones to clarify!
Personally, I just found increasingly prints that were off center, suffered more bounce or were just not the right colour balance from Northern. I still enjoyed buying lots of new films from Derann of course, despite the glitches.
I think Northern were owned by Granada Television (big tv company in the UK at the time) and that the ultimate closure was due to UK drama productions moving from 16mm negative capture to digital formats. At least we still had them for a while, even if they did seem to me to get a bit "slap-dash".
Brian points out that;
"Lab North seemed more careful than Rank as there were not many "reversed image" prints sold off at reduced priced after they took over."
Which is a very fair point. I think I'm right though that the main guy who did the printing moved to Northern Labs as Rank closed, so it was the same person responsible for printing. I'm sure Derek stated that in a newsletter at the time. This is where we need Ged Jones to clarify!
Personally, I just found increasingly prints that were off center, suffered more bounce or were just not the right colour balance from Northern. I still enjoyed buying lots of new films from Derann of course, despite the glitches.
I think Northern were owned by Granada Television (big tv company in the UK at the time) and that the ultimate closure was due to UK drama productions moving from 16mm negative capture to digital formats. At least we still had them for a while, even if they did seem to me to get a bit "slap-dash".
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