Optical Sound Film List

[Brian Fretwell]

I did hear that an early BFCC that there were Disney cartoons made with optical sound for use in booth players (coin in slot) and the Goofy cartoon "Knight for a Day" was shown there from an optical copy.

Anyone know all the Powell and Derann short releases? I certainly don't.

[Russ Green]

My Star Wars is only the 400ft version Ozi not the full feature alas but the full feature does exist I need to run it beside the Ken films 400footer to see if there are any differences interestingly there's a pamphlet included that tells you the characters names and their lines through the movie. There was also a 200ft optical print released .

[Mike Newell]

Be interesting to know how much Lethal Weapon , Shout at the Devil and Gorky Park have been edited as they had nudity and graphic violence in those movies.

[Melvin England]

Wow ! I am really impressed with the responses. Please keep them coming!!

One more to the list....

From Russia With Love.

[Edward Nicielnik]

I have The Thirty Nine Steps Robert Powell and Nadia 1984

[Osi Osgood]

Well Russ, you at least have a top dollar print in that optical feature of Star Wars! I forgot, I also actually have a trailer for "The Way We Were", which I find interesting, as, did they have this before a feature on an in flight movie? Another curiosity, is that, for the long trans-atlantic flights, they actually had a few epics. I know of one for sure, Ben Hur. It was on two of those large cartridges or cassettes, as you could only have upwards of two hours per cassette. They were ideal for those long flights!

[Patrick Walsh]

I got RAISE THE TITANIC and FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE flat prints

[Russ Green]

These are the ones that i have Pharlap,Racing with the moon,A matter of time,The Earthling,Scandalous,Pale Rider,Thunderball,Footloose,A fish called Wanda,Bugsy Malone,Porridge [but I only have the first 600ft],Rising Damp,the Jigsaw man,Star Wars, a golf film[think its world of sport but not sure haven't watched it in a while] and a 200ft Popeye cartoon I think I have a couple of others but can't place my hand on them at the mo but will have a good look and update once ive found em.

[Brian Fretwell]

I believe some adverts from those flight reels also got onto the market I bought one at a Derann open day (Cigarettes, but as I don't smoke I can't remember the brand).

[Martin Davey]

I know that Osi likes optical features, but that is an amazing collection!

[Nick Vermeirsch]

A time ago, I got "The Go-Between" (1971) as S8 optical print.

[Osi Osgood]

Here's some more ... Remo Williams, Greystroke, Woman in Red, Never So Few, Tender Mercies, Westworld, Hot Millions, Internecine Project, Sudden Impact, Starbird and Sweet Williams, Diamonds Are Forever, For Your Eyes Only, Pocket Full of Miracles, Romance of a Horsethief, Dillinger, Force 10 of Navarone, Vera Cruz, Children of a Lesser God, Finders Keepers, City Heat, Just You and Me Kid, and of course, Grizzly Adams, which began as an optical feature, but was converted to magnetic sound. Except for three or four, all of them have vintage or near vintage color. I might be off on the count, but I think that is 69 features, and there might be one or two more.

[Osi Osgood]

That lovers and other strangers is a rarity. I never heard of it before. OK, let's get started. Point Blank, Conduct Unbecoming, They Kill they're Masters, Maxie, Charge of the Model T's, Izzy and Moe, The Mean Season, Firefox, Pale Rider, Spaceballs, Lethal Weapon, Earthling, Crocodile Dundee, Billion Dollar Hobo, The Daybreakers(two hour feature version of "The Sacketts"), Das Boot, Battle of Britian, (scope!), Stagecoach, Grayeagle, Rocky 3, The Bounty, Sacred Ground, Gorky Park, Boy Named Charlie Brown, Snoopy Come Home, Little Shop of Horrors, Hooper, Future world, Superman 3, The Long Ride, lslabd of Dr Moreau, Bugsy Malone, Yellowbeard, Matilda, Purple Rose of Cairo, Lone Wolf McQuade, The Survivors. That's all I can think of off of the top of my head. There's more. Probably around sixty. This doesn't include the cartoons or the short subjects, which would be a much smaller list.

[Steve Lee]

les innocents aux mains sales 1975 Ex Air France

Salut l' artiste 1973 Ex Air France

Un Cave 1972 Ex Air France

lovers and other strangers 1970

Memories of Me 1988

Women in Red 1984

[Maurice Leakey]

Hedda 1975 Glenda Jackson
Conduct Unbecoming 1975 Michael York

I don't consider either film to be of interest to passengers in a plane.