Amazing Find original ATARI Movie film

[mr-atari]

Thursday Night I went to my local junk auction, and it was the estate of Leon Kasparian. Mr. Kasparian apparently had tremendous experience in film and movies, and the auction house was selling his collection of projectors and sound equipment. He also had an extensive movie collection.

One of the 35mm film spools was labeled "ATARI COMMERCIALS" I decided I would take a chance and purchase the film.

It has Several commercials on it, What I have identified so far are the fly (Yars revenge) Dig-Dug and E.T.

I notice a reference to a 2007 Sale of this same reel on ebay but nothing since. Could some of you all chime in about rarity of this item? Also if they are common can you tell me what all of the commercials are that are on the tape, so I don't have to look through it by hand?

Thanks for your help!

[stargate]

I have no idea, but certainly a cool find !

[Greg2600]

I personally don't know all the commercials, but probably most are on YouTube at this point. That said, those are all taken from old, old video tape. My guess is yours is some type of 35MM master? I'd think the quality would be very good! As for the value, that's hard to say. I've found old film like that to be disappointing in how much they are worth. I have newsreels and sports films my grandfather bought in the 40's, and you can't give them away.

This guy did a fairly in depth accounting of the old commercials though!

http://www.8bitrocket.com/2007/05/31...rcials-part-1/

[alec006]

If that's a 35 MM Master or copy of the master, I would transfer that to DVD as soon as possible, that's a great piece of video game history

[Parodius Duh!]

If that's a 35 MM Master or copy of the master, I would transfer that to DVD as soon as possible, that's a great piece of video game history

THIS....what you have are most likely the film master that the original broadcast master tapes were struck from. Whats the total running time of the reels? You can get these transferred for fairly cheap from a service.

You never know, just a few years ago some guy found every episode of the Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. Cartoon segments from Saturday Supercade, at a flea market, all on 35mm reels. Think he paid $15 for it all. Glad I got a copy on DVD while he was selling them still, quality is great and most of these episodes were considered lost forever until he found every one on these master reels.

[Gameguy]

Some of those old Atari commercials were shown in theaters before movies started, at least I remember reading that from somewhere.

[TheRedEye]

You never know, just a few years ago some guy found every episode of the Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. Cartoon segments from Saturday Supercade, at a flea market, all on 35mm reels. Think he paid $15 for it all. Glad I got a copy on DVD while he was selling them still, quality is great and most of these episodes were considered lost forever until he found every one on these master reels.

Hoooly crap I never heard of this and want it right now, can someone help?

[mr-atari]

Here is a scan of the film, it is the dig dug commercial, it's up on youtube if you don't remember the scene after 30 years!