The film is now fully scanned! Yesterday I had a long video call with the scanner where he took me through each reel, showing me the overall quality and any specific issues I should know about for each one.

As we’ve already seen reel 1 is pretty rough, but I’m really happy with what I saw of all the other reels. Colours, detail and overall condition all look great. I didn’t see any splices in any of the parts reviewed from reels 2 - 5. I’m also happy to report that full “fairytale ending” is present and correct and it’s in good condition. I don’t have any more samples to show just now, but sometime next week I’ll be getting the invoice and then the scanner will be sending the hard drive to me, so it shouldn’t be long before I can watch the whole scan for myself and see what we’re working with.

For those curious the full scan comes in at 1.32 TB in size!

Thank you to everyone who has made this possible. Once I’ve got the scan in my hands I’ll work as quickly as I can to release a “grindhouse” version so everyone can see it.

I have a PayPal link set up for donations, I’ve seen some users share those links in the past, but I’m not sure if it breaks forum rules. For now if anyone would like to contribute towards the scanning costs please send me a message, or contact me over at Fanres.