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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bosko69, post: 12483505, member: 16283&quot;]Ditto w. Frank &amp; Ruth-<i>&quot;The film industry and manufacturers stopped using highly flammable silver nitrate film in the <b>early 1950s</b>. Eastman Kodak, the primary supplier, officially ended the manufacture of nitrate motion picture film in <b>1951</b>. [<a href="https://hyperallergic.com/the-unlikely-story-of-how-nitrate-film-endures/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://hyperallergic.com/the-unlikely-story-of-how-nitrate-film-endures/" rel="nofollow">1</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and_restoration_of_film" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_and_restoration_of_film" rel="nofollow">2</a>, <a href="https://www.kpbs.org/podcasts/cinema-junkie/2017/05/12/beauty-and-danger-nitrate-film" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kpbs.org/podcasts/cinema-junkie/2017/05/12/beauty-and-danger-nitrate-film" rel="nofollow">3</a>]&quot;</i></p><p>PS- I&#039;m thinking that for a blockbuster like this, and the anticipation was huge for the film because Puzo&#039;s book had been a humongous hit, they&#039;d be using clean,fresh stock. It&#039;d be like releasing &#039;Jaws&#039; on antique inventory-but I&#039;m no film expert.</p><p>PSS-How Coppola got the gig-<i>&quot;Paramount Pictures approached Coppola because they wanted an Italian-American director who would work for a low fee and not cause trouble, <u>hoping for a cheap, easy-to-adapt gangster film</u>. In fact, the studio had offered the film to several established, A-list directors first, all of whom turned it down. [<a href="https://www.facebook.com/thehowardsternshow/posts/francis-ford-coppola-revealed-he-didnt-originally-want-to-direct-the-godfather-i/1811650652291937/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.facebook.com/thehowardsternshow/posts/francis-ford-coppola-revealed-he-didnt-originally-want-to-direct-the-godfather-i/1811650652291937/" rel="nofollow">1</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godfather" rel="nofollow">2</a>]</i></p><p>...then he did Godfather II,imho-even better.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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