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.
Vinegar Syndrome: my nose came up NEGATIVE on this reel ...
I tend to be quite detailed in my item descriptions, please READ all the details to decide if this item may interest you.
Now, on with the description ...
Film stock is on an unbranded Black plastic 800 foot reel and has been stored in a POSSO library case (drop down front door) with very basic labelling on the library case and none on the reel.
NATIONAL LAMPOON ANIMAL HOUSE (1978)- Super 8 Film
Catalogue # Not Stated on packaging
NATIONAL LAMPOON Animal House (John Belushi)
Produced as the first film by National Lampoon, a popular American college magazine in the 1970's
The story revolves around the Delta Tau Chi fraternity at Faber College and the characters within, especially Bluto (played by John Belushi) with wild parties and pranks on campus.
The unbranded reel is housed in an original POSSO (France) heavy duty plastic case, Brown drop down door.
NO leader film has been fitted, nor a film clip.
800' Black reel with feet & metre measurement scales but no branding or country of origin indicated. There looks to be approximately 700' of film so the reel is not overloaded.
I believe this reel will provide around 35 minutes runtime, I only "test viewed" the first 10 minutes or so
Colour
Sound
COSMETIC CONDITION:
USED
CLEAN
Film stock and the reel is undamaged, straight and true
Labelling has been applied to one side of the POSSO library case only (Red dynatape) - no identification on the reel itself.
NO Vinegar odours coming off the film at all.
NO personal names or other writing on the library case or the film reel
TESTING:
Test projector is the ELMO 1200 that I have on hand at the moment.
The projector film path has been completely cleaned prior to running this film through the machine. I now have a "running sheet", my maintenance schedule if you like - I record when each maintenance is performed (usually after just 3~4 films each clean) because I am running a lot of films through the machine.
Film looks to be clean and in good condition, sprocket holes are not damaged.
I ran the film through the projector for the first 10 minutes or so, to observe the picture and sound.
The film begins with a quick countdown and then straight into the movie, opening title and credits but no mention of the film distributor etc
Obvious loss of Blues here, quite Pink/Red BUT with some Green still remaining, resulting in overall Red-Brown scenes with sprinkles of Green throughout the scenes but Blues? Just not present.
The sound is good though, levels and crispness (with plenty of high frequency response) is very listenable.
SPECIAL NOTES:
I always include a couple of "off screen" snapshots ... now my digital camera is antiquated and it's limitations are definitely showing up in these sample photographs. The photographs do not do the film justice but my aim is to show that I have confirmed the reel contents and make a quick judgement about the condition of the film. In all cases, the actual picture is far better than my rather crude screen shots.
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 (it doesn't even have a White balance control) is tending to emphasise the Red's in the photographs anyway - in reality the on-screen picture is not as Red as recorded in the photographs.
In my opinion, after this relatively brief test viewing, I am happy that the film is as stated on the outer POSSO library case (NATIONAL LAMPOON ANIMAL HOUSE) and it looks to be in fairly reasonable "technical" condition.
As with all of the larger diameter "open reel" film I am finding when I sort through the boxes, I am adding a couple of satchels of Silica Gel (for moisture absorption) and sealing the reel within clear plastic. I then also seal the outer library case. This is done in an effort to preserve the current condition as much as possible.
