A technicolor curiosity!

[Osi Osgood]

I am currently selling a super 8 optical sound feature of "The Man Who Would be King", on 5X technicolor cartridges, and the fascinating thing is that when it was shipped to me, it was shipped in it's original, technicolor shipping box! This print clearly came directly from technicolor! There has been speculation for years as to whether technicolor did any super 8 prints themselves, but this print does have some color fade, so the question is, did technicolor merely get prints made from elsewhere, and then merely put them in they're own cartridges? Also, did technicolor themselves market, as a library, Hollywood features?

[Joerg Polzfusz]

Hi!

Technicolor also sold Agfa films and some Japanese cameras under their brand name. They even produced some N8- and S8-projectors. So they might have actually struck your print in their labs - but without using the Technicolor process (=on „ordinary“ print stocks from Agfa/Kodak/Fuji/3M). I suspect that you will find some edge markings that will proof this.

https://www.filmkorn.org/super8data/...or_s8_film.htm

https://www.filmkorn.org/super8data/...echnicolor.htm

https://www.filmkorn.org/super8data/...echnicolor.htm

[Brian Fretwell]

Some Technofilms from Italy have the Technicolor symbol (as on your box) on the labels, so I assume they could only do that if they used an Italian Technicolor lab. The prints were on Agfa of Kodak stock, but no identification on the prints as to which lab was used

[Osi Osgood]

The film stock for "The Man Who Would be King", is Eastman 31.

[David Kilderry]

There were no Technicolor Dye Imbibition prints made in Super 8. Technicolor as a company did get involved in both the printing of Super 8, especially in Europe, and also equipment and projection systems. The cartridge endless loop system and associated projectors being the most significant.

[Osi Osgood]

Shame, that it didn't also include actual film! I've seen those "mini projector/cartridge" systems. They were usually used for short 3 or so minute educational shorts on how to do this or that. We had a few in our classrooms.

[Brian Fretwell]

I believe they did make a larger capacity version. I saw it being used in a film once IIRC it was an Anglo Italian co-production with Stephanie Beecham. I'll try to find a photo.