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Topic: Determining an LPP Print/16mm Print Values
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Frank Angel
Film God
Posts: 5305
From: Brooklyn NY USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 06-22-2011 06:55 PM
quote: Damien Taylor 16mm film prints were churned out en mass for many years for TV etc, and as such many better known titles have lower prices than obscure or unpopular fare.
This is true, AND, because of that fact, they are even less valuable because unless they are of older Academy ratio (1.37.1) pre-1950s features, and ESPECIALLY if they were originally scope features, that "mass" volume of 16mm prints that Damien is talking about were made for TV and for non-theatrical. That means that you have to be VERY careful because THOSE prints were Panned and Scanned and are dispised by film collectors.
Example: a print of say STAR WARS: THE NEW HOPE that would be either an anamorphic format would be worth quite a bit, or a letterboxed format, a little less so, but still quite prized; you would expect them to be worth accordingly, but a TV print of the same title that's a Panned and Scanned version would be worth much, MUCH less, even if it were in mint condition. With 16mm, yes, worth is based on physical condition, but also what is actually recorded on the film as well. You have to also be careful with TV prints is that they could easily be editied for not only aspect ratio, but content and time as well. You know, the old "Reformated to fit on your lousey square screen and edited to fit into our crappy ad-laden time slot." Well, all that nasty manipulation was done ON the film itself in the lab.
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