Bonanza on TV land

[holmesuser01]

Back in the '70's, I worked in a TV film department. Once in awhile, we'd get a Technicolor print of an old movie. I was allowed to check films out overnight, and run them at home to 'inspect' them. Got paid for doing it, too!

The Technicolor prints were beautiful most of the time. Once in awhile, we'd get a print that had registration problems.. like a TV with bad convergence. I'd report the film problem to the distributor, and they'd usually reply that they had used this same print for years and years and never had a complaint! Thats what I was paid for. They always sent us another print.

Universal Television had alot of Technicolor prints. So did Warner Bros.

Those prints started going away in the mid 1980's, with the advent of the new Eastman film stock that was called LPP... LPP is a low-fade stock. It seems to be working, as I have several films that were printed in 1983 that still have excellent color. They are LPP. The old film stock that Eastman made would be red by now.

I've heard some Natalie Kalmus stories.

Natalie's husband, Herbert T Kalmus, founded the Technicolor Company.

True IB Technicolor prints do not fade either. Its a totally different way of getting color on film than the way Eastman did it. Vastly superior, IMHO.