Talk:The Dream of Hamish Mose (Unreleased 1969 Cameron Mitchell Film)/@comment-27478026-20151226203952

The unknown buyer is Films Around the World, Inc.; we just added a page about it to our web site, www.filmsaroundtheworld.com. It was part of the Phil Pine library that we bought; the rights to the movie came to Phil from Consolidated Film Labs, which uniquely took security interests in both tge physical materials and the copyright. I think the bit available on video comes from a work print; we have hundreds of reels of film for the movie in storage. I was told by Phil's friend and co-seller Bobby Stevens that clips were sold to a LA TV station for airing during the trial. The movie was shot on 35MM; now that more information anout it has surfaced, we'll make a first-class HD master of the four reels we pulled, and I'll post them on our web site page. It would be a major job to complete the movie -- we would bring all of the hundreds of short negative rolls to New York, inventory the information written on the leaders to put them in order, assign numbers to each reel, and then do the transferring in 3K on a specially modified Spirit. We would end up with a ProRes uncompressed master that could then be edited; hopefully, Henry Darrow can help build a treatment for the editor, if there is no screenplay. It is possible that the work print is in the pile of materials, which would make the editing a lot easier. It still needs music and effects, plus titles, plus closed captioning for TV and streaming. The final cost would certainly be north of $100,000. We would end up owning the copyright and all rights worldwide effectively in perpetuity. Hopefully, we will get a distributor to front the cost. I would appreciate any additional information anybody can pass on -- it's like assembling an incomplete jigsaw puzzle, so even a minor piece helps.