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Post #530757

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skyjedi2005
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LETS PRETEND: A Star Wars Technicolor print is for sale
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Date created
2-Sep-2011, 7:17 PM

I once saw a print of such up for sale on ebay.  It did not sell because the asking price was too high, the guy who was willing to pay the steep price did not purchase it because it did not have the original crawl.

I believe the baltimore screened print was the same as the one this uk collector owned and had up for sale once.

Doubt he will ever list it again cause if Lucas got his hands on it he would destroy it.

Making his copy the only one left in the world, we must not allow such a thing to happen.

 

There is also the fact that licensed copyrighted motion pictures especially 35mm, or 70mm cannot be bought traded or sold. 

I have no idea where companies like Lucasfilm stand on super8mm or 16mm prints, the only authorized copies long out of print and only authorized for sale in the united kingdom. Like Derann and only super8.

Most 16mm i know of unless they are military prints, library prints, rental prints, or prints made for conventions, are duped off a release print not from a negative and are therefore illegal copies.

How many bootleg 16mm copies exist is anyones guess, but the telltale sign is usually lack of sharpness and the dupey qaulity.

The prints that were sold on the super8forums were made from a  negative in the 1990's, i have no idea where that gentleman procured them but apparently they were official Lucasfilm prints.