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Topic: "Blackhawk Classic Film Sampler" (Prevue 8)
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted November 26, 2008 10:35 PM
If there was one thing you could always depend on from Blackhawk
films, it was quality.
Now, most super 8 companies tended to put out a "sampler reel", but Blackhawk, if it did a sampler reel, it would do it in style!
... and in style they did it!
They released a full, and I mean FULL sampler reel. What they did, with they're subtitles and such, was literally tell a story, with a beginning and ending.
Not only this, but they gave a VERY good glimpse of there titles as well as a great look at history. These titles were
(in order of appearance on the reel) ...
Easy Street (Charles Chaplin) 1916
Orphans of the Storm (Lillian Gish) 1921
Hunchback of Notre Dame (Lon Chaney) 1923
Lindbergh's Flight (Charles Lindbergh) 1927
Peril's of Pauline 1914
Demsey/Tunney fight (long count) 1927
Intolerance (D.W. Griffith) 1916
Cure for Pokeriffs (John Bunny) 1912
Southern pacific train 1892
Battle at Elderberg Gulch (D.W. Griffith) 1913
First Indianapolis 500 race 1911
Wife and Auto Trouble (Mack Sennett) 1916
First Gidden Tour (auto race) 1905
American Aristocrisy (Douglas Fairbanks) 1917
Railroading in the East 1902
Broken Blossom's (Lillian Gish) 1919
Double Whoopee (Laurel & Hardy, Jean Harlow) 1929
The Rennunciation (Mary Pickford) 1909
Needless to say, that's a heck of a list of titles. Each clip is about thirty seconds long, (except in the case of "Easy Street", which is a good minute or more). In the case of the very early clips, they tend to be a little shorter, but it's marvelous to see those early clips! The quality of all those clips is of the highest quality for a silent film clip.
What's even more fun , is that it begins and ends with Charles Chaplin, "What happened with Charlie?" and shows how Charlie subdued the big bad guy!
Interestingly, there's the use of a fade in on an already up subtitle, which I think is the only time that Blackhawk did that to my memory. (I could be proven wrong however).
What was wonderful about about this sampler was that you could literally look at this prevue as a "best of history" or "That was the way it was" type of film release. This sampler could really stand on it's own, with very good narrative and top rate
clips!
This was meant to be run at a 18 fps speed, which means that it ran nearly a good twelve or so minutes. Hows that for a full reel, much less a film sampler!
Those that own this title know the story, but if you don't happen to have this sampler, it's well worth getting.
LONG LIVE SUPER 8!
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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