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John Pytlak
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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 08-16-2001 07:54 AM
Older, well-used prints can vary in quality. Be prepared to spend more time to thoroughly inspect and (if necessary) repair any damage from previous theatres. A few passes through an efficient film cleaner will usually work wonders.If your print is coming from a local or private film exchange, get to know the people there so you can personally ask for them to select the best print available. Unfortunately, once a movie has been released for home video, new 35mm prints are rarely struck. There have been fortunate exceptions (the recent retrospectives from Columbia and Warner Bros.), and individual re-releases of restorations of pictures like "Vertigo", "Rear Window", "Apocalypse Now Redux", etc. I recall that "Young Frankenstein" had a recent printing for a limited re-release, so there are some good prints in circulation. ------------------ John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging Eastman Kodak Company Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419 Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA Tel: 716-477-5325 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 716-722-7243 E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion
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Mark Lensenmayer
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From: Upper Arlington, OH
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 08-16-2001 10:55 AM
I had an interesting experience with repetory prints last night. Went to see MOTHRA. They had advertised BATTLE IN OUTER SPACE, but the curator said that Columbia had LOST the only print they had of this title. So, they substitued H-MAN.This isn't the first time this site has been told a certain print exists, only to find out the only print has disappeared. As for MOTHRA, this was another weird situation. If I understood correctly, the negative of the American version had been edited. Then, someone decided to put the original parts back in, but there was no available soundtrack, so, at various points in the film, the sound just disappeared! So, no sound for 3-5 minutes at a time. Now, with MOTHRA, you can get away with this...the audience just made up its own dialog, or just started to sing the MOTHRA song as sung by the two little girls. It was fun, anyway. It's too bad that so many titles are just not available in good prints. With older prints, it seems to be just the "luck of the draw". Mark Lensenmayer
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