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Old 05-13-04, 08:34 AM
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Raiders of the Lost Ark Film Reel Question

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A couple of days ago I stumbled upon an original 70mm full film print of Raiders of the Lost Ark in a box. The box has the Lucasfilm logo on it, and the film is just wound in 5 seperate bundles not on the actual reels, but just wound together nicely. So my question... is there any value to this, I mean like real value? I searched fleabay and couldn't find anything from completed auctions. Thanks for the help.
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Isn't it illegal to sell the full movie? i've seen trailers before but never the full film.

And I have to ask...how does one stumble on something like this?
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I'm sure there is some sort of value... don't know where you'd go to sell something like that though... I've got 10 bucks if you'll take that

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yeah...where does one just stumble upon full prints of movies?
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No need to go into detail, but let's just say friends in the industry treat me well

Thanks for the help, I'll probably end up keeping it as some nice memorabelia (sp?).
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If you want to make money, sell the individual cells.

2 hour movie at 24fps has 172800 cells. That adds up at $5-$20 a pop.
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Of course you can't really sell all of the cells. Someone will be pissed if they get a frame of credits or a blurry image of someone running across the picture.
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A few years ago I was interested in acquiring prints of some of my favorite films. I couldn't find anyone selling them on ebay. I imagine this could be worth quite a few to the right collector.
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Originally posted by resinrats
Of course you can't really sell all of the cells. Someone will be pissed if they get a frame of credits or a blurry image of someone running across the picture.
True, although you could pull out the good ones and auction them appropriately. For example, Indy standing over the idol near the beginning would probably fetch a good sum.

The rest you could just sell as a "grab bag" I suppose.
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A 70MM print of RAIDERS?

How about, share it with the rest of the world!

You can't legally sell it. Give it back to Paramount/Lucasfilm so it can be presented around the world.

I know I would love to see it.
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Originally posted by scott shelton
A 70MM print of RAIDERS?

How about, share it with the rest of the world!

You can't legally sell it. Give it back to Paramount/Lucasfilm so it can be presented around the world.

I know I would love to see it.
Not a bad idea, but I would thing they have a few of the 70mm prints around. I could be wrong though. I may check with the GM of the Royal Oak Main Art Theater here and see if she would want to do a special screening/engagement.
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Do you know for sure it's the entire film?

Here's the nearest thing I could find on Ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...5254&rd=1#info

Granted, it's 35mm and Lethal Weapon 3

Also, while I know DVDTalkers know everything in the world, it might not be a bad idea to actually ask someone who collects these things:

http://efilmforum.com/

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That is pretty sweet, I would just keep it.

Now if it were Star Wars, I would look into ways of getting it onto DVD
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Originally posted by renaldow
Do you know for sure it's the entire film?
Yeah I glanced through the first opening credits of it and saw a few more scenes that I recognized (fighting the bald white German next to the plane). It is on 5 reels, so I'm pretty sure it's the entire thing, but I don't want to expose it to light since I have no clue what that would do to the print.
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....but I don't want to expose it to light since I have no clue what that would do to the print.
I don't think it would do anything to the print, seeing as how a high intensity light shines on it through a projector. Did you check out the efilm forum above?
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Not yet, I will in a few. Thanks for the link, I've never heard of that forum before.
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Ya know, I've never seen a 70mm print of this movie. That's a big time dream for me. I don't live in a 70mm mecca, so I'm very jealous!

70mm RAIDERS and a Todd-AO print of FLASH GORDON (1980) are on the top of my list...




Originally posted by steebo777
Not a bad idea, but I would thing they have a few of the 70mm prints around. I could be wrong though. I may check with the GM of the Royal Oak Main Art Theater here and see if she would want to do a special screening/engagement.
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Originally posted by renaldow
I don't think it would do anything to the print, seeing as how a high intensity light shines on it through a projector. Did you check out the efilm forum above?
Exposing it to light wont do anything to it. However, the soundtrack is magnetic on 70MM, so don't play with any magnets around it.
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The right collector (ie. rich guys with the home facilities to project 70mm) would probably pay a fortune for this. The dificulty is getting in touch with a collector. This is the kind of thing where 99.9% of people would give you a few hundred bucks for it, but the right 0.01% might pay thousands or tens of thousands (particularly if it isn't too faded and is mag striped).

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