This is one of the best "making ofs" we have, The voice over at the start states, "The Godfather is now a movie". A really good 200ft reel showing production, scene clips and interviews with some of the cast. Excellent colour, nice sharp image and very good sound make this a winner of a short and a great starter to any show.

Tom,

The color on the promo looks pretty nice....Were there any full-length prints of The Godfather with good color still--or only the 3x400 version German Marketing Films versions? It would be a great one to have on film--but in my mind only would want one with good color....

Unfortunatly, all the full features are pretty much faded. A lot of people must have spent fortunes on those marketing full length prints only to end up having them fade thanks to the poor film stocks used.
The 3 x 400 are still holding up ok. We have Godfather one and two and they still appear to be ok. I will check them both soon as it has been a while since i looked at them. A full feature of the first one would be a great one to have. I wonder if there any good theatrical prints on 16mm out there.
I remember when the BBC first showed it years ago there was a bit of a fanfare about in the papers. It read something like, "some nifty scissor work has enabled the BBC to show the modern classic The Godfather, with approx 14 minutes of cuts". When you see Goodfellas, (another excellent gangster movie) on the telly uncut these days, it just shows how times have changed. As time goes on every generation becomes more and more desensitised to blood, gore and violence and bad language.

Good that you got this in Super 8; whenever I have seen any 16mm promo films, they have always been faded Eastman.