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Topic: CHITTY CHITTY BEATS HARRY POTTER
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Per Hauberg
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Posts: 883
From: Malling, Denmark
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 05-05-2003 08:39 AM
I ran Chitty in 70mm twice in a cavalkade of "old big ones" during the summer of 1976 or 77. Some days after the last run, i was told to return the print in a hurry. Naive, as i was, i was happy with the thought, that others would be on the waggon, too, since it should hurry back. Two weeks later, during the same cavalkade, i was to run "Solomon and the Queen of Sheba", and now i found out about the hurry. -Chitty had been used to make new leaders for Solomon
Life is not for weak projectionists in love with old films...
Per
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Per Hauberg
Jedi Master Film Handler
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Posts: 883
From: Malling, Denmark
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 05-05-2003 07:44 PM
Claude
I remember CCBB something near perfect - not in the special effects, as Christian also mention, but in printing, -and that single, danish 70mm print was absolutely mint condition, when it left here for the bandsaw. Solomon and Sheba gives my memory a blackout. -Only thing, i remember for sure, was that it had faded BLUE in a way, i've never met on any other film. -A bit on my own two 35mm prints of "Big Jake" (Wayne) - but this was really bad. As i did not like the film itself, either, this bandsaw massacre doesn't hurt me as much as all those other 70mm prints in a raw, i had the pleasure to run before they went away, thanks to narrow-minded distributors. Take "Ice Station Zebra" as a horrible example: It was sold for reissue through an independent distributor after MGM did their job. The new distributor took the used 35mm prints, but the two 70mm, one beeing perfect, were of no interest, due to expensive freight rates, was the message. -Bandsaw !!
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