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Info: 8mm scope reel - for sale on eBay

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Just saw a 400’ Star Wars reel in Cinemascope on eBay (item #140134830970), listed as a 20th Century Fox Digest Print. Considering the transfers I made for the Puggo edition, would there be value in my attempting to transfer this? Presumably, this would be widescreen and have more of the field in it, right?

My Super8 WorkPrinter doesn’t have a widescreen lens, although obviously I could “fake” it by transfering it and then squashing it in post-production. I’m not sure I’d want to bid a LOT to get it - was anyone else planning on bidding on it? If so, I might be available to borrow it and make a Puggo-like transfer of it. If nobody was planning on bidding, I might make a modest bid myself near the deadline if it hasn’t gotten too high.

Thoughts?

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Did you ever figure out if your WorkPrinter could take a 600 ft. reel?

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If this is widescreen, could this be the ultimate fan-preservation? An original film of Star Wars?

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Originally posted by: bkev
If this is widescreen, could this be the ultimate fan-preservation? An original film of Star Wars?

Well, it's only highlights, so it would be more like a widescreen Puggo Edition. Really, a fan preservation from film (16mm's pop up semi-regularly on eBay, and I have thought about it) would be a serious challenge... most of us don't have access to the kind of ultra-high quality telecine equipment that George has. As proud as I am of the PE, An 8mm film run through my WorkPrinter isn't going to come anywhere close to VHS, let alone GOUT. It would be fun, though. Hmm, I'd have to learn how to do real anamorphic encoding, to blow those grainy pixels up as big as possible

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There has to be some way to Rube Goldberg around that pesky limitation. Use two other projectors to feed and take up the reel?

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The filmreel went for a modest price, but more than I was willing to spend. The buyer appears to be a super8 collector in England, probably not a SW fan specifically. So, it's unlikely to end up Puggo-ized.

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Originally posted by: SilverWook
There has to be some way to Rube Goldberg around that pesky limitation. Use two other projectors to feed and take up the reel?

The only way I could think of would be to put some sort of extenders on the spindles, to get the reels beyond the projector housing. That would also require some gentle angular guiding of the film into the feeding mechanism. I'd have to do some investigating in my bountiful free time

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