Monday, September 18, 2023

The Shadow of Chikara Greek PAL VHS 96 Minutes FOUND!! YES


Some good news! Slogging through emptying a storage unit of my home video library and was stoked to have my prior rental PAL format VHS on the mighty Joconda Video label showing what's labeled as a 96 minute print of "The Shadow of Chikara". I do recall watching it once or twice but cannot recall details beyond it being English language audio, a slightly LBX transfer, the same Civil War scene opening and the unedited PG rated dialog.


I also recall the tape had a copy protection macro that would not allow me to do a DVD recording, so it awaits some form of evaluation and is likely the same 96 minute print shown on the NTSC format VHS by New World Cinema from 1985. Pretty sure, though it could also be 96 minutes at true 25fps PAL playback speed which would run 5% slower if properly converted to 24fps NTSC. but I doubt it. A note of encouragement comes from the tape itself indicating 105 minute total playback capacity at SP mode. So it has enough tape on its spool to house 96 minutes of playback whatever the frame rate.

Bad news is that my worldwide converting VCR is still AWOL and until it surfaces I cannot evaluate any of my PAL format tapes. Which I need to do so as to list & sell, though this one isn't going anywhere.

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  1. Missed seeing your posts, I hope all is well.

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