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Paul Adsett
Film God
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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 07, 2008 01:35 PM
Well I'm finally back home in Florida after my trip to the UK and the 55th BFCC. On the Saturday of the convention, I drove up from Henley on the right side of the road, and it was a beautiful sunny morning as I pulled into the Ealing Town Hall parking lot. My first puchase was a copy of the current issue of 'Smallformat' from the ticket stand, then I moved into the back room where I chatted about 9.5mm with Tony Reypert of Buckingham films. Good to see that he is still in business, and still producing the modified 9.5mm EIKI xenon projectors. I also puchased a copy of 'Flickers' magazine from Patrick Moules. What a great little magazine about vintage cine - I'm going to have to subscribe to that one. Next stop was upstairs to the Derann stand, where I said hello to Gary, and puchased several Pathe Pictorials and a new print of 'The Madagascar Penguins'. I was delighted to run into Craig Hamilton again, and we traded notes on our 9.5m Pathe Baby's . Then at lunch time,into the main hall where Keith and John were hosting members of the 8mm forum including Craig, Graham, Keith Ashfield, fellow Welshman Mal Brake, Colin Hunt, Mike O'Regan, and of course our moderator Mr. Elmo, Kev himself! Also delighted to see John Bird again - still running his 'Reels on Wheels' movie shows at sheltered homes. The big show of the afternoon was 'The Music of 20th Century Fox' compiled by Keith and John, with Ken Locke's superb narration. Despite some technical bugs during this show (damned digital equipment- super 8 is so much more reliable! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) ) it was a most enjoyable hour of film nostalgia and a terrific job by Keith and all concerned. Outside the Town Hall I ran into Dave Locke and Rod Willerton who produced that wonderful film about Magic Lanterns seen on the new Armchair Odeons. The final show I saw was Keith's 35mm presentation of Disney's 'Night on Bald Mountain' from Fantasia. With superb picture quality and stunning sound (was that stereo?) I found this film sequence absolutely awesome, and very moving indeed. I can't remember ever seeing this before - what a masterpiece, and it will never be equalled by any CG animation.
All in all, a great and memorable day, the best part being able to say hello once more to everybody on the forum.
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The best of all worlds- 8mm, super 8mm, 9.5mm, and HD Digital Projection,
Elmo GS1200 f1.0 2-blade
Eumig S938 Stereo f1.0 Ektar
Panasonic PT-AE4000U digital pj
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a few years ago I was selling a GS1200 a local collector was interested in buying it, so I said come and pick it up and try it out for a couple of weeks and if he still wanted to buy it come back with the money, well after those few week thats what he did I got the money ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
the projector would not play. I offered my assistance we tried everything the GS would not budge, well he turned to me and said this is the projector you sold me, also another fellow collector came to our assistance looked at the GS and said to me, this is the projector I sold you. I replied yes it was and I sold it to him ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
well as all this was going on the audience was getting restless so the Super8 show was abandoned. This chap then decided to run the 16mm part of the show the lights dimmed "again" the Eiki was switched on .....nothing the lamp blew and to add insult to this he did not have a spare lamp ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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