16mm print looks almost as good as 35!

[Mike Buckles]

For Father's Day, I received a dvd of "10,000 Leagues Under the Sea"...in the bonus features, it shows the giant squid fight as it was first filmed, in a red sunset background. Disney thought the squid looked fake, (it did) so they reshot it in a stormy scene...Disney had the 35mm camera negatives and workprints of the original fight destroyed...but a 16mm print of it survived, which is one the dvd...it looks **** good for a smaller format! There is obvious grain in the background, but it really comes close to the 35mm look! Small formats rule!

[Mike Buckles]

Oops..that's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea...paging Mr. Heimer's, first name "Alz!"

[Alex]

Well, 10,000 leagues is half of 20,000, kind of goes along with it being a 16mm print instead of a 35mm print.

The 16mm print probably came from the 35mm print so most of the quality probably is retained. Another example is the Super-8 filmmaker magazine jpeg currently posted on the forum.

Before I shrunk it down to it's final forum size, you could not read the volume and year, and the bold titles were barely legible.