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| Author: | Robert Crewdson [ Sat Aug 01, 2015 8:55 am ] |
| Post subject: | Blackhawk Films |
Looking through my Super 8 collection I discovered that I have a Blackhawk print of the Laurel & Hardy silent 'Two Tars', but just discovered it was printed on colour stock and has turned red. Has anyone else found B&W films printed on colour stock? |
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| Author: | Chris Smith [ Sat Aug 01, 2015 4:00 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Blackhawk Films |
I suspect you have a print that was removed from a "Technicolor" cartridge...it was a cassette system was partly used in restaurants, especially pizza parlors, so an endless stream of old comedies would animate the walls as one indulged in a meal of pepperoni with extra cheese. My recall is that, at one time, color stock was actually a cheaper way to print than black and white film. This was supposedly owing to the Hunt Brothers and their speculative fun in the silver market, which drove the price of silver, and black and white films, sky high. I had several such prints as yours and they were more than annoying to me. I still have a print of KING CREOLE printed on color stock but that has shifted to a more tolerable "sepia" tone, rather than red. |
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| Author: | Robert Crewdson [ Mon Aug 03, 2015 5:08 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Blackhawk Films |
Thanks Chris; I don't remember where I bought the film from, but it came in a plain box instead of a Blackhawk box. I remember when it was announced that Kodak was ending B&W film and all future films would be on colour stock. Production of B&W never ended, but that statement was one of the reasons I stopped buying; I wasn't going to pay colour prices. At that time I could buy a B&W feature for £100, a colour film of similar length was £350. |
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