[Request] [proposal/request] 35mm scan of German animated movie "Felidae"

[TomArrow]

Yeah, fair enough.

I decided to write an email to Criterion, suggesting the title. They already have "Watership Down", which strikes a similar tone imo. Would be really cool if they took it into consideration.

[Valeyard]

If you can clear rights you'd be able to locate and scan the negative. Try finding out who the rightsholder is, and ask them whether they can make it available for a Bluray restoration.

[TomArrow]

I was just thinking ... could you guys keep an eye out if this thing is ever aired in HDTV? I sincerely doubt they ever bothered to do a HD version, since it's only SD on Amazon etc., but who knows...

[TomArrow]

As for the rights, it may belong to the production company that no longer seems to exist, but I think the company belonged to the "director" who also made other movies. But I'm not really in a position in my life to be doing any convincing of people, add to that that my social skills are below zero.

[TomArrow]

Just a quick question. Does anyone know whether there is a laserdisc of this movie out there? Wikipedia says there was a release, but lddb.com doesn't show anything and neither can I find much about it anywhere else.

[Evit]

Anything on eBay or collectors' websites?

[TomArrow]

Hm, I don't know any collectors' websites. But nothing on eBay, I checked many times.

If there is any NTSC DVD out there, that'd also be cool. Amazon.com only lists Region 2. ebay.com only shows the books.

[MrBrown]

Seems a quite hard to obtain movie...
Even German DVD seems to be not that cheap to get.

Edit: And French DVD even is more expensive... 119 Euro at Amazon.fr

Edit 2: Amazon.com shows German DVD of felidae... $149 and up on market place

Edit 3: according Amazon.fr the French DVD is with English audio, but that could be a wrong information

Edit 4: due to not mentioned at Amazon.com I think the I formation at Amazon.fr is just an error.

[TomArrow]

I live in Germany so the German DVD is reasonably easy to obtain, although not cheap. But I believe it's the one on rutracker anway and I have it. There's another Felidae DVD available online, but it's identical to the one on rutracker.

My idea was to do a kind of "PanUp" thing as spoRv suggested in the Guides section, with an NTSC version.