Final price $2024.00! And it's the same guy who shelled out $1600 for that "milky" Star Wars print. Dull surprise!
Must be nice to have that amount of money to burn! :(
That print is up over $2000 now, and twenty minutes left to go. This is madness!
I've seen lengthy MGM trailers on Turner Classic Movies promoting upcoming releases for an entire year. One from around 1967 or so shows stills in the cases of some films still in production at the time, (2001 is represented by a couple production paintings over narration) so this trailer makes some sense to me now. You may have scored the earliest media presentation of Star Wars outside of the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention!
The way Star Wars was regarded and marketed by the studio and others before it's success is as much a part of it's history as anything else. Please make an effort to preserve this if you can.
It would be cool if you can get the audio for this transferred as well.
According to a friend of mine who worked as a projectionist in college, many large campus movie theaters are 16mm equipped. Prints of feature films were made for these venues. Overseas military bases also used to get their movies, and even tv shows on 16mm. Other prints probably have more suspect origins.
So would this still be worth going after at this point?
At least one print of Raiders still makes the rounds of revival theaters, and what I saw on the big screen two years ago was pure 1981 vintage.
And how freaking cool would it be to own this!
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=52933&item=330248749497
SKot said:
I saw this news on thedigitalbits earlier today, and I think this is one of the most amazing pieces of news in cinema history! All my life the only Metropolis I've ever been able to see has been incomplete, and now this treasure of historical significance, worthy of excavation by Indiana Jones, has been uncovered after 80 years of being thought lost forever. This is just awesome.
It would also be amazingly cool if other lost prints (like the complete version of London After Midnight, for instance) turned up like this during our lifetime.
Now try to imagine in the year 2027 (80 years from 1977), this headline:
"EXCITING news: lost "STAR WARS" original uncut negative FOUND!!!!!!!!!"
Yeah, right. We can only dream... ;)
--SKot
When the SciFi channel went on the air in 1992, it opened with the first "FTL Newsfeed", a series of newsreports from the far future, about the discovery of a complete print of the then 200 year old classic film Star Wars. This was a clever intro for showing the actual film that first night. :)
The Shadow was widescreen on Laserdisc, (It also was the first DTS LD!) as is the UK DVD. But whether it's at the proper aspect ratio seems to be in doubt.
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare/shadow.htm
I'm surprised this didn't pop up on HD-DVD as Universal was redoing a lot of their old catalog titles up until the plug was pulled.
What movie is that particular Fox logo from? I can't recall ever seeing it with a curtain before.
It's definitely not the Star Wars filmstrip. And filmstrips do not have optical soundtracks.
It does say "partial trailer" in the description, which makes me think it's incomplete. :(
Can 35mm film fade completely to black and white?
I stand corrected then. :)
Based on the other clips, Andywan could seriously outdo ILM on such things.
Ebay only seems to bother enforcing such policies when someone with clout actually complains. (There are several 35mm features on there right now.) Between this and that "make your own SW crawl" site getting scuttled, I'm getting paranoid about who else is reading our posts! ;)
That other auction is interesting. Note the early version of the Star Wars logo. But why would the trailer be black and white?
Someone has been uploading clips from Andywan's project to Youtube, including that scene. It's neat, but Bail doesn't really react to the impending doom.
I don't know, Schumacher made The Incredible Shrinking Woman, and that's actually a funny movie! Maybe it's the odd film out in his career? ;)
I thought Jim Carrey was channeling Frank Gorshin's Riddler more than anything else.
Sluggo said:
LFL ought to just put up the same type of thing on starwars.com.
Since they practically stole the "Han Shot First" t-shirt idea, I would not put it past them. ;)
One used to be able to size up the competition, (recognize the guys with money to burn) before they implemented that feature. >_<
Oh ****! Poor JarJar!
Thank you for posting that, Octorox. I will have to watch this someday. ;)