Well i'm definitely on board for this project. I've been talking with -1 for the past couple of days to see how this can realistically be done.

Bringing every hope back down to earth i think we can honestly rule out getting a professional HD transfer done. I really think this was never going to happen because there were too many things involved, including the legality of this.

There may, however, be a ray of sunshine on the horizon....

I have been talking to a photographer friend of mine who has a old but High quality 35mm digital film scanner with the automatic film adapter. Now he said that he it a damaged adapter but he, in theory, could be able to modify for it to automatically feed and scan a reel of film. He has a brand new, much higher quality film scanner but doesn't want to do any modifications to it, which is understandable especially when he's paid over 4 grand for it. It has both a negative and positive setting for use with both 35mm photographic negatives and 35mm positives so no problem with having to do that side of things in post production

Now if he is able to modify the scanner then this can be done. But please don't get your hopes up for a HD quality transfer, because i doubt this can happen. As he explained to me you would need the newer scanner he has to be able to do something that will look any good in HD. So realistically we're looking at a DVD version only. But even with this it is still better than what we have with the GOUT

Now the modifications are going to take a few months at least to do as he has to build a new rig to accommodate the larger reels, so updates will be very scarce. So if things go quiet don't think its been abandoned. If it does get scrapped then i will let you know.

Once he has done the modifications we can test it with a 35mm trailer he has first to see what results can be obtained. If its feasible then -1 will be shipping the reels to me and the project will officially start