Location of King Kong 1933 Original negative, Foreign lavender and M&E tracks (1 Viewer)

[Capt D McMars]

Location of King Kong 1933 Original negative, Foreign lavender and M&E tracks

Hi Robert, My name is Bart Pierce and I to worked in film restoration during the time you were doing the same. I worked for 20th Century Fox Video and produced the majority of their special editions on the laserdisc. I am probably best known as the designer of special photographic effects for...

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RAH:
"As to the OCN, it may also survive in someone's hands, as there seem to be no annotations of destruction."

 

[Lord Dalek]

Location of King Kong 1933 Original negative, Foreign lavender and M&E tracks

Hi Robert, My name is Bart Pierce and I to worked in film restoration during the time you were doing the same. I worked for 20th Century Fox Video and produced the majority of their special editions on the laserdisc. I am probably best known as the designer of special photographic effects for...

www.hometheaterforum.com

RAH:
"As to the OCN, it may also survive in someone's hands, as there seem to be no annotations of destruction."

Even if it wasn't destroyed (and that's still a fairly large "if"), the OCN probably long since deteriorated to the point of unusable.

The nitrate dupe held by the BFI is the best element until proven otherwise.

 

[battlebeast]

Wasn’t it confirmed that the OCN was in that briefcase in PULP FICTION?

 

[jayembee]

Wasn’t it confirmed that the OCN was in that briefcase in PULP FICTION?

Which itself was in the trunk of the car in Repo Man.

 

[JoshZ]

Which itself was in the trunk of the car in Repo Man.

Which exists inside Tommy Westphall's snowglobe in St. Elsewhere.

 

[Robert Harris]

Even if it wasn't destroyed (and that's still a fairly large "if"), the OCN probably long since deteriorated to the point of unusable.

The nitrate dupe held by the BFI is the best element until proven otherwise.

Why presume an element is deteriorated?

 

[Lord Dalek]

Why presume an element is deteriorated?

Hey you said it. It was overprinted.

 

[Robert Harris]

Hey you said it. It was overprinted.

Over-printed is not deterioration.