"Seeking Captain Blood" Topic

Since I first considered trying Blood and Plunder, I have wanted to get a copy of the TCM Colorized version of Captain Blood, produced in the 80s. I am hoping that it will inspire some color choices for the figures, esp the sailors.

You can neither beg, borrow nor steal a copy of this film. I think it exists/existed on VHS. I wrote TCM and their response boiled down to a "don't hold your breath."

I know this is an uber long shot, but does anyone have a copy of this flick in their media library? I'd be pleased to pay for a VHS dupe. I'm not particularly concerned about the picture quality. Apparently colorization was in its infancy and the quality was apparently dodgy. What I am after is inspiration.

Of course the colorized film is of highly suspect historical accuracy, and I imagine the colorizer's color palette was more influenced by technical convenience than anything else but itd be better than nothing, even if I end up pronouncing it garbage and starting again from scratch.

Your consideration re this will be much appreciated.

On to my next windmill.

Tks

Is this what you are talking about?

auction

Unfortunately, no. While this lot has no info on color or b&w, another lot with the same sleeve graphics did specify b&w. Thanks for looking tho.

That version was only put out on VHS, and that was in 1987.

Check this link out –
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It looks Like a copy exists at the Broward County Library,
in Fort Lauderdale, FL United States

"Historical accuracy?" This is a movie in which the 1688 French are flying the tricolor and the 1688 English are flying the post-1803 Union Jack, and you want to check the colorized version for historically accurate pirate costume colors?! It's a glorious movie, but you're grabbing a hammer because you need a screwdriver.

If you want inspiration for pirate colors, get yourself some Howard Pyle. I recommend Pirates, Patriots and Princesses: the Art of Howard Pyle, selected and edited by Jeff A. Menges. Probably no more "historically accurate" than Captain Blood, but already in color and a lot easier to get. Anyway, no one wants historically accurate pirates: they want Sabatini, Pyle and Flynn.

@RP. I'll have to look for the Pyle book. I didnt know he did enyf piratical illustrations to fill a book.

(Interesting side note. My new tablet's autocorrect is garbage. It thought illustrations were "illusions actions.")

@EW. I wonder if Fort Lauderdale would do an inter-library loan to Maryland. Nah…

I shall endeavor to persevere.

Have you tried Belle & Blade, they sell war videos at all the toy soldier shows. May have VHS and DVD.
Bob

I doubt B&B would have it. Their stock list runs well into the realm of the esoteric, but an out of production VHS tape from 1987 is probably well beyond their scope.

I checked anyway. They have a Captain Blood listed, but 0.0 info about it, besides price. It's probably the most current DVD version.

Good thought tho.

(Reaches for the bookshelf behind him.) The Menges book has 20 pirate illustrations, 18 in color. After that they had to use his paintings of the Middle Ages, AWI and ACW battles, and quite a number of paintings of pretty girls. Nothing any of us would be interested in.

I was hoping that someone had bought up all the travesties, sorry colourised versions, and destroyed them.

I doubt there was any concerted effort to eradicate these, despite their being considered the artistic equivalent of dogs playing poker. This reputation insured their not being invited along on the great VHS to DVD migration.

No, the VHS copies that were sold have ended up in landfills and charity bins and the far backs of closets. Extinction by neglect.

You might want to reach out to that library. The vhs is probably scheduled for extinction there as well. Perhaps for a donation they would part with it as it probably hasn't been checked out in decades.

@Syrinx0. Couldn't hurt.

AMAZINGLY, I emailed the Broward County Library and they responded AT ONCE. Sadly, it turns out the listing is an artifact. They donated out all their VHS media items ages ago.

But the library rep indicated that there appeared to be one at a library in California. The way this has been going, odds are the library went up in the fires last year.

At any rate, the search continues.

Excelsior!

California was a bust too. Defeat.

From where the sun now stands,
I will search no more, forever.