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Author Topic: Print needed of Walkabout Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-03-2005 06:21 AM                        Following earlier pleas for Jenny Agutter prints to screen during The Bradford Film Festival we are still trying to find a print of Walkabout. having tried all the usual routes distributors,BFI and NFTVA etc we have drawn a blank. Anything out there anywhere? transport costs will be covered as well as screening fees  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-03-2005 07:17 AM                        This was reissued recently in the US. Not sure who has the rights/prints, but I know that the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA. played it. They had trailers for it, too.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-03-2005 07:56 AM                        Why not try a post on the AMIA listserve? This sort of query usually gets a prompt response as people from the main archives and art/rep distributors tend to read it. BTW, is the Mag Men print you're showing the pink one which Darren sometimes shows or the new print which played in Los Angeles last year?  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-03-2005 08:14 AM                        Leo do you need to be a member to post on there? MMITFM is our usual print. THe "new prints" in the programme should be HELLO DOLLY DR DOLITTLE SOUND OF MUSIC AGONY AND THE ECSTASY Subject to final confirmation  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-03-2005 10:15 AM                        You need to be a subscriber to the list, but not a paid up member of AMIA. Would you like me to post the query on your behalf?  |  IP: Logged Mark Ogden Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 943 From: Little Falls, N.J. Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-03-2005 12:46 PM                     This is huge longshot, but drop a line to Sarah Finlea at Janus Films in New York, at sarah@criterionco.com. In North America, Walkabout was last handled by Films Incorporated thru Kit Parker, when they folded most of their old FI titles went to Janus. Also, Criterion Pictures in Toronto has a 35mm print, but whether either of these leads helps you across the pond is another story. Good luck!  |  IP: Logged Phillip Grace Expert Film Handler Posts: 164 From: ACMI. Melbourne. Australia. Registered: Mar 2004 posted 02-03-2005 06:38 PM                     Hello Dick. You should find a fairly recent print at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra (Australia) Catalogue is available on their website at www.screensound.gov.au I think it was restored as part of the Kodak/Atlab collection. We ran it here a couple of years ago and it was in good condition. AR is 1.85 and sound is Dolby SR-D. Phil.  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-04-2005 06:06 AM                        Philip/ Mark Thanks for the leads which are being followed up Leo Thanks for the offer that would be great  |  IP: Logged Tom Doyle Expert Film Handler Posts: 176 From: Bristol, CT, USA Registered: Nov 2002 posted 02-04-2005 09:25 AM                     I ran this film in July. Mark is correct, Janus Films was our distributor. The print was in very good condition.  |  IP: Logged Lindsay Morris Expert Film Handler Posts: 233 From: Darlington, WA, Australia Registered: Sep 2002 posted 02-07-2005 07:02 AM                     Dick, About 2 years ago Potential Films or Chapel Films (same group just two different arms) here in OZ (Melbourne actually) re released this film on a new print and it was the Directors cut version. I believe that they still have a copy in their library. They can be contacted at www.potentialfilms.com The bloke to talk to there is Mark Spratt. Phone contact is: +61 3 9328 5040 His Email is: potfilms@ozemail.com.au I guess the freight from Australia to UK would be horrific but if you are really stuck it is worth a go particularly as it was a brand new print in the updated version. The print held at ScreenSound could be an older one as I do not think Kodak & Atlab have yet got around to reprinting that one. Lindsay  |  IP: Logged Dominic Case Expert Film Handler Posts: 131 From: Sydney NSW Australia Registered: Aug 2003 posted 02-07-2005 06:16 PM                       Unfortunately WALKABOUT is not included in the Kodak/Atlab collection of prints at the National Film and Sound Archive - and so far as I can tell they have no holdings of that film. Would be very ineresting to know what negative materials Chapel Films used for theor print a couple of years ago.  |  IP: Logged Phillip Grace Expert Film Handler Posts: 164 From: ACMI. Melbourne. Australia. Registered: Mar 2004 posted 02-08-2005 11:40 PM                     Whoops! Sorry for the furphy. That would also make me wrong about the sound format, which would have been Mono for the original release, and on surviving pre-print material. Does anybody remember a telemovie called "The Hands of Cormack Joyce", shot in Victoria in the early 1970's, which featured Jenny Agutter? Further apologies in advance, in case the retrospectascope really has gone bung. Phil.  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-09-2005 04:33 AM                        Lindsay thanks for that lead. We have been in touch with Mark and this looks promising. thanks to everyone else for their suggestions Much appreciated  |  IP: Logged

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