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We watched Carry on Camping
Monster of peidras Blancas which i got with no stripe or sound.
Put some mag sound stripe on it and dubbed the sound track. Great fun watch now and a good vintage print.
Went to cinema today to see the 45th anniversary of Superman. Cancelled!
Running my S8 tonight in honour of the great Christopher Reeve
My new SW digest again. OK, I already have it in various forms on super 8, but the sharpness and color of this digest is really good and well worth the aquisition of it! The letterboxing doesn't cover the whole of the scope image, but enuf to make those panoramic widescreen shots look pretty good! I can say that I am extremely happy with all of these recent digests and the ability to re-release past super 8 glories and improve on them in the process. No one really knows as to how much longer these new digests will continue to flow, but even with the delays and problems getting them out to us, kudos to all involved!
Thought I better give the GS1200 a run tonight, they don't like not being used. I screened a past made up Elmo 1200 foot reel full of Mickey Mouse shorts.
All the Derann Disney prints are stunning bought new from Derann. The only two that are not a Derann release but still look very good, are "The Band Concert" and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". I must have spent a small fortune on films back then, they were well worth it.
One thing I have never done since the 1970s was to sell of any Disney or Tom and Jerry films, always kept those
1....Steamboat Willie 1928 Derann print
2....The Band Concert 1935 Walt Disney home movies.
3....Mickey's Fire Brigade 1935 Derann
4....Lonesome Ghosts 1937 Derann
5.....Brave Little Tailor 1938 Derann,
6.....Mickey' Trailer 1938 Derann.
7.....The Sorcerer's Apprentice Walt Disney home movies.
For Easter the ' Scope om & Jerry "Happy go Ducky" where the easter bunny leaves them a duck egg that hatches giving them loads of trouble. (Derann print with lovely colour). Which inspired me (by the line where the Duck stabs Tom in the rear with a kitchen knife and says "Touche Pussy Cat") to watch the Cieavision print of that title which though rather pale now, still has all its colours.
My newest aquisition ... The Ten Commandments 3X400ft Marketing Films! Interestingly, while the color is spot on, some of the special effects shots just don't look great. Alright, I know, it's 1956 special effects, but they really did a good job on the restoration for the Blu-ray, but the rest of the film is really great. Very good blacks to the image, somewhat uncommon for a Marketing Films print, To be honest.
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Doug Would have loved to see that on screen. It's a curious film but as you say still a fun one.
Having just watched the new 4K BR of Maltese Falcon we enjoyed a evening of those great WB films on S8 on the trusty Eumig 824.
S8.
Yankee Doodle Dandy and Maltese Falcon very enjoyable day.
I'm re-recording this one to show at the upcoming CineSea. The Piccolo editors totally cut Peter Sellers out of this digest, however it's still fun and that Burt Bacharach score is really catchy!
We watched my new aquisition last night, "Snow White", a Betty Boop cartoon. The nice thing about this one is that it is the original black n white full length cartoon, not colorized.
The Beloved Rogue, the 1927 film about the French poet François Villon, with John Barrymore. Although I used my modified GS (250 watt bulb) with a 1.0 lens, the picture on my screen looks less "black and white" than on the pictures taken with my telepone. Seems that nowadays those cameras are set to systematically "improve" the pictures, many people are probably not happy anymore with the reality (that's not my case and I enjoyed what I saw on my screen).
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