HISTORY:
My "world" is 'the arts' and more specifically, music, artwork and hand crafted/decorated chinaware's.
I am not a film enthusiast but an associate has asked me to find new owners for THEIR large collection of photographic and film items ... this is one of those items.
While the world of 8mm/Super 8mm is not my area of expertise, I am doing my best to establish the condition of each item that I am listing.
I tend to be quite detailed in my item descriptions, please READ all the details to decide if this item may interest you.
This reel looks to be a compilation made from two films, previously in their own boxes but moved onto this one reel and some parts of the old boxes used for identification. The outer box is a plain ordinary Hanimex box.
Now, on with the description ...
CASTLE FILMS (2 ON ONE REEL)
A) Title: Bridges At Toko-Ri DR.X (William Holden & Grace Kelly)
B) Title: The Mummy (Boris Karloff)
Each "selected scenes" film runs for different times, the first film is considerably shorter at around 5~6 minutes with the second film (The Mummy) running for around 15 minutes. I hear you, 15 minutes? You see this lovely CARL SCHNEIDER reel is loaded right out past the 400' mark on the reel, actually it needs to be handled very carefully as there is no film clip fitted and the film easily "spills"
Catalogue #
Film A: P213
Film B: 1021
Estimated 450 ~ 500 feet packed onto this reel
Black & White
Silent (NO Sound at all but with "sub-titles")
Run time total: approximately 20 minutes
COSMETIC CONDITION:
USED
CLEAN
Very good
Film stock and the Light Grey/White CARL SCHNEIDER 7" reel are undamaged, there is a White leader film but no film clip (shame because this is one very heavily loaded reel!).
Outer all cardboard HANIMEX box is holding together ok, assisted by a strip or two of cellotape.
NO writing on the reel and plain outer cardboard box has parts of the two films original packaging stuck on it for identification.
TESTING:
Test projector is the ELMO 1200 that I have on hand at the moment.
Film looks to be clean and in good condition, sprocket holes are not damaged.
I ran this reel through the projector for almost the entire length, stopping at around 20 minutes run time (I had enough and lots more films to view!)
The Black & White is good, clean and if anything I would say that at times the "Whites" became too White and it sort of looked washed out - but this was only occasionally on the very bright parts of the films, for example when the Columbia frames are running at the beginning. The films were both easy to watch and clear.
There is no sound, you need to concentrate and watch for the text on the screen that tells you what they are saying or just what is going on!
Film A is a war time film based in the Korean War
Film B is the wonderfully scary Boris Karloff who gets himself into a bit of trouble trying to bring his sweetheart back to life, he himself is killed for dabbling in unGodly acts and subsequently mummified but hey presto! He then comes back to life thanks to some special magic at work - Oh the things we do for love! Boris is great in this movie ... look at that face!
SPECIAL NOTE:
I always include a couple of "off screen" snapshots of the first two films is showing, my camera decided to play up on the third film so no screen shots of that one.
My digital camera is antiquated (colour balance? what's that) - like I said, this is one OLD camera and it's limitations are definitely showing up in these sample photographs.
I take the screen shot in very low light levels, the camera flash is turned off (otherwise the picture is flooded with White) and the camera shutter speed is very slow.
This means I have trouble getting sharp photographs, especially when there is movement on the screen and I have noticed that after viewing quite a few films now, that my poor OLD digital camera is tending to emphasise the Red's and Yellow's in the photographs anyway - in real life the on-screen picture is not as Yellowish as recorded in the photographs
In my opinion, after this quite lengthy test viewing, I am happy that the film content is as indicated on the box and that the film stock appears to be in pretty good technical condition.
I am very fastidious and careful with these films (I am after-all doing this on behalf of another person) and I have now sealed the inside reel in clear plastic along with a couple of packets Silica Gel (at an enthusiasts suggestion) and then packed it back into the original cardboard box AND sealed the film again within clear plastic - waiting for a Super 8 film Black & White buff to enjoy!
