Superman 3 photo booth photos

[Petertiger]

Notice a couple of members asking for these not the best quality but high resolution ones are not easy to find hope these are ok

 

[Caplan]

 

[Ghosthead92]

I did some work on the photos. Hope you like them!

 

[Obie71]

Enjoy!

 

[Astyanax]

Thanks to Obie71 for the photo from PropStore, and thanks to Ghosthead92 for inspiring me to take a break from something big and difficult to have a little fun with paper! You got me researching!

Here's a version with the tear, for reference.

Lot #371 - SUPERMAN III (1983) - Superman's (Christopher Reeve) Photo Booth Strips with Opening Credit Sequence Storyboard File

Superman's (Christopher Reeve) photo booth strips with an opening credit sequence storyboard file from Richard Lester's superhero sequel Superman III. During the film's opening credits, Clark Kent ran into a photo booth, which captured his transformation into Superman. He tore off the bottom...

ukm.propstoreauction.com

 

[Astyanax]

I went ahead and applied some Photoshop to the photos from PropStore:

• They needed some brightness and contrast adjustment. (Not so much as to make them perfect, but a little less aged like the PropStore photos, and a tiny bit more balanced like the movie captures.)
• The photos were a little warped; un-warped them.
• Resized to 40mm x 200mm at 600dpi.

The original size is stated by PropStore to be 45mm x 200mm. This can't be correct, because the proportions of the photos get squished a fair bit when adjusted to those dimensions.

I researched photo booths from the 1980s and found that the standard photo strip size should be 40mm x 205mm. But when applied to this strip, the proportions are stretched just a little too tall! And as I looked at the style of real strip photos from that era, I also realized that the bottom corners of each photo might be rounded if they were really from such a machine, and they would be tiled a little closer together:



Therefore this was obviously a custom-produced piece for the movie, and not a real photo booth strip. Of course we know that from the quality of the photos anyway! So I went with a hybrid of the two sizes that happened to match the proper proportions of the photos: 40mm x 200mm.

This is the cleaned up, resized version, ready for printing!



I printed some up on high quality photo paper, practiced my tearing technique on some rejects, and voila!

 

[propmaker2012]

These are great! I have one with my Superman 3 movie adaptation comic book.