Reading Martin Dew's statement that his B&H projector has never scratched any of his films; mine is the same. I do clean the gate before every show and often use a small nozzle on a vacuum cleaner to pick up any debris that might be lurking.

This print of 'Goldfinger' recently came up on Ebay, and all I can think of is that it's probably passed through several hands, and I wonder if any of them ever cleaned their projector. the seller, well known on Ebay, said it was from his own private collection, which would make you think you were getting something special. even in this condition it sold for £225.

Now i am not fussy these day's like i use to be, a few light black base lines are one thing but jeepers, i could not sit through that film in that condition, and someone paid THAT price for it??????
I would be embarrassed showing that to any audience, this is the sort of example that if you did show anyone, it would undermine our hobby and make a mockery out of it.

One thing you cannot do is show off 8,16,35, 70 or 9.50 if a film looks like that. I think the only place for that print is either, The bin, or keep for testing projectors, (except looking to see if a machine is scratching)

looks like ex rental, well, well run print, shame lovely tech colour.

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I couldn't sit through that either Tom; when it comes to 16mm i'm not so fussy either. These prints were never intended for the private collector, so I'm grateful to have them, and the small imperfections don't matter too much. Also many of these titles were never available in Super 8. I wouldn't want this for £50. The seller to tried to push it by saying it was excellent IB Tech, and the only copy on Ebay. It might be the only copy at that time, but we know others are out there.

my oh my, the world seriously has gone mad when £225.00 is spend on a film that is spent. Some people do clearly have too much spare cash on their hips. I would watch around 30 seconds of that before switching it off, looks like it's been through a Cinerex.

it does Del, though to be fair look at what T2 fetched on 8 and that was described as being far worse than even these images here!

As I say, they must have money to burn.