a long shot ....but

[Pete Le Dezma]

..i just bought a 16mm projector..and would love the following films on 16mm,in the best cond. possible..hello to everyone on here,this is a great site. star wars,episode 4,a new hope-george lucas-original and dirs. cut,. ALIEN-original cut,ridley scott. blade runner,original and dirs. cut-ridley scott. thelma and louise-ridley scott. flashdance,nine 1/2 weeks-adrian lyne. frantic-roman polanski. raiders of the lost ark-steven spielberg,the fugitive-andrew davis,witness-peter weir,aliens-james cameron

[Pete Le Dezma]

anyone have these films? see my ebay id fordfan.bud,i am a perfect customer,lets strike a deal

[Michael Coffin]

Hi Pete,

I think nobody responded because you are asking for some MIGHTY recent titles. :)

I have an LPP original Star Wars - but the original, not the new one. I may have a source for Blade Runner (LPP cinemascope). Do you have a scope lens?

Feel free to contact me offlist for additional information.

MichaelCoffin@**********.com

-Mike

[J. Craig Shearman]

If you're new to 16mm, one of the first things you need to know is that large numbers of 16mm prints have not been made of feature films since about 1980. In the old days, colleges, libraries, prisons, the military and many "institutional" venues ran 16mm theaters. TV stations also aired movies from 16mm prints and airlines ran 16mm for in-flight movies. After video took over, the 16mm market largely dried up. There are a couple of companies that still rent 16mm prints (Swank and Modern Sound Motion Pictures) and a handful of 16mm prints are made for them. But the days of making a big batch of 16mm prints of a current or recent release are long gone. Consequently, there are only a very few prints of recent movies that make it into private hands, and they can command very high prices -- certainly in the hundreds of dollars per print, sometimes above $1,000.
If you want to be able to show recent films in 16mm, you can rent from Swank or Modern, but it runs about $200 for a recent title. (I ran Shrek for a church group last year and paid that amount to rent from Swank, including shipping.) They get prints about the same time a film gets to DVD, no sooner. The fee includes the public performance license for showing to a public but non-paying audience with restricted advertising. Swank will recent to anybody, but the price is the same even if you just want to watch the movie at home. It's not like going to Blockbuster and paying $3.99.
There are plenty of older films available on Ebay and elsewhere going from about $100 and up. I picked up Clark Gable in a badly faded print of The Tall Men for about $30 once a year or two ago, and a scratched print of Stagecoach for $60. So there are bargains, just not among recent films.

[Linda Haluska]

Yikes! I am a newbie - maybe I better develop another interest!!!

[Rich Powers]

Last week someone had a print on ebay of Alien with a buy-it-now price of $399.. but it actually ended up selling for $595 - http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=63821&item=6315959749

[Pete Le Dezma]

great group here,thank you