• NaoPb@eviltoast.org
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    11 months ago

    Some older dutch movies were released as rentals to the theaters that had to be returned after they stopped playing the movie. These copies were all destroyed and re-releases on DVD now look worse than what it looked like in movie theatres.

    The good news is that some theatres hung on to some movies.

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      11 months ago

      Thank goodness. Have those copies resurfaced and gone into the possession of proper archivists and/or research collections?

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        10 months ago

        I don’t know how many might be still be around, but I know for a couple of movies where they are. I don’t think they have been properly archived and/or converted to digital media yet. I would like to see if there are people in The Netherlands that can do these things and if the current owners of the rolls of film are willing to.