Official Godzilla/Tokusatsu 35mm/16mm Print Watchlist Thread

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Oh, I didn't realize this. Thank you for letting me know. I'll be sure to take these links down, but the thread itself is still open in case an authentic print is sold.

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Haven't posted on here in a while, so I'll mention I just found a pretty cool item, a 16mm I.B. tech of King Kong vs Godzilla, it's cut to about 8 minutes, but the color looks great and its relatively cheap. Wanted to let collectors know.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/16mm-Film-KING ... Sw9jdeZX-u

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Servanov wrote:Haven't posted on here in a while, so I'll mention I just found a pretty cool item, a 16mm I.B. tech of King Kong vs Godzilla, it's cut to about 8 minutes, but the color looks great and its relatively cheap. Wanted to let collectors know.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/16mm-Film-KING ... Sw9jdeZX-u
Although this is IB Tech and it looks pretty, something like this - a short fragment with splices at the end - is NOT considered relatively cheap by most film collectors' standards. We haven't even seen the final bid yet. I guarantee it will be at least $100 before it ends. Way overpriced even as it stands, just like any sci-fi and monster films on eBay except King Kong (a million dupes were printed).
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Godzilla vs The Sea Monster 16mm, missing some footage at the beginning:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Godzilla-vs-Th ... SwSyBfih5J

Godzilla's Revenge 16mm:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/16mm-GODZILLA- ... SwG-dfiOFW

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Are you baller enough to drop $550 on a Russian-lektor'd faded Свема 35mm print of BIOLLANTE? Why, that's almost as affordable as one of the new Mezco figures!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304147376397

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Joseph Goodman wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:11 pm Are you baller enough to drop $550 on a Russian-lektor'd faded Свема 35mm print of BIOLLANTE? Why, that's almost as affordable as one of the new Mezco figures!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304147376397
Man, if it was English dubbed or even Russian with english subs (and preferably less faded though I understand why that might not be possible) I’d be very interested.

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Such a magenta hue for a print that is no more than 30 years old, I guess long persistent dyes were beyond the reach of the Russian distributors.

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That’s a good point. It was right around 1983 in the US when color film stocks became dramatically more stable. I don’t remember all the technical reasons, I just know it’s really easy to find Return of the Jedi (1983) prints that still have great color while it’s nearly impossible to find original prints or Star Wars (1977) or The Empire Strikes Back (1980) that aren’t cherry red unless they spent a nice chunk of their lives in cold storage.

But I’ve gotten so used to seeing badly faded Eastman prints that it didn’t even occur to me that Biollante was from 1989 and should have been available on more stable stock…
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canofhumdingers wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 4:08 pm
Joseph Goodman wrote: Wed Sep 22, 2021 12:11 pm Are you baller enough to drop $550 on a Russian-lektor'd faded Свема 35mm print of BIOLLANTE? Why, that's almost as affordable as one of the new Mezco figures!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/304147376397
Man, if it was English dubbed or even Russian with english subs (and preferably less faded though I understand why that might not be possible) I’d be very interested.
It is actually English-dubbed, it just has a Russian voiceover on top of it.
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Weird. That sounds like it’d be difficult to watch for speakers of either language.

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I can't imagine watching an entire movie that way for enjoyment myself, but it's historically a popular localization technique in Russia.
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Yeah in Eastern Europe we don't do dubbing for actor-movies. Only for animation.
However in Poland we've never used voiceover (one man read all dialogue lines) in cinemas. Only for TV and VHS/DVD.

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https://www.ebay.ca/itm/304147376397?ha ... SwkzFhQbj5

I found a 35mm print of Godzilla Vs. Biollante..

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Obviously you didn't read the last few posts in the thread, kid.

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Joseph Goodman wrote: Thu Sep 30, 2021 12:53 pm Obviously you didn't read the last few posts in the thread, kid.
Check the subject lines of the posts. There were two separate threads merged.
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Mods quick on the draw, didn't even see the other thread!

There's a 16mm 'scope print of Godzilla vs The Thing on Ebay, but it's from the same sketchy South African seller mentioned on the first page.

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^ My bad, wonder why there were two threads on the same topic by the same poster tho

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What is it with these Russian prints of Biollante?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234266797719?h ... Swo-lhgI~m

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Joseph Goodman wrote: Wed Nov 03, 2021 6:59 am What is it with these Russian prints of Biollante?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/234266797719?h ... Swo-lhgI~m
My guess is timing, Biollante was made just as Russia was opening up to "western media", so Biollante may have gotten some fair (licit or otherwise) exposure in the Motherland. As we saw with the prior auction, the price is ludicrous if the print's colors have turned to magenta (or cyan or yellow).

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I think it's likely the same print changing hands.
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