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Topic: How many of us collect only Super 8mm?

Brian Fretwell
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: London, UK
Registered: Jun 2014

posted May 28, 2017 10:27 AM

Some standard 8 from when Collectors Club hadn't started Super 8 amd titles I saw S/h at a very good price - mainly silents.
Mainly Super 8 but a few odd reels of 16mm from Bring & Buy and auctions looking for things that would never be on 8mm. Also a few trailers on 35mm mainly for examples of different sound systems used (Acadamy variable area, Dolby Stereo/SR, SDDS etc) I have no way to show them.

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David Hardy
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Johnshaven Village , Montrose, Scotland
Registered: Jan 2015

posted May 29, 2017 06:04 AM

I started collecting Standard 8mm as a young lad in the mid 1960s.

Then branched out Super 8mm in the mid 1970s when i bought
my first sound projector the Eumig 710 D dual gauge which
i still have.

I now collect mainly Standard 8mm 16mm and 9.5mm along with 35mm.

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Brad Kimball
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From: Highland Mills, NY USA
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posted May 30, 2017 08:23 PM

I collect features on Super 8 simply because of the cost. I buy digests, shorts and cartoons on 16.

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Del Phillipson
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From: Derbyshire, England
Registered: Dec 2005

posted May 31, 2017 03:16 AM

Only super 8 for me and now that I have a Fumeo too I cannot ever see that changing. I have over the years thought seriously about 16mm but the thought of starting all over again, plus the extra storage space required. No the smaller gauge for me, I know 16mm prints are mostly better quality but some super 8mm prints have a wow factor too [Wink]

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Joe Caruso
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From: USA
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posted May 31, 2017 10:08 AM

8 and Super 8, some 16 and 9.5 - Shorty

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Osi Osgood
Film God

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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted May 31, 2017 01:19 PM

Andrew ...

Yes! About 5 or so years ago, I and my partner in "GIOSI Films" ( a fine fellow by name of Gian), released our one and only (so far), super 8 release, "Saturday Morning Madness". We only had a print run of approxixmately 30 or so prints total. It was a 16 minute, 400ft reel of animated cereal commercials from the mid 60's thru 1982. We even did some color restoration on some of the earlier ones that had a little color fade.

To top all that off, i actually made a 20 or more page (can't remember) publication giving the history of all the cartoon characters in the super 8 release, along with some others as well.

It was, most certainly, a labor of love!

... and yes, it was on low fade film stock! (yay!)

I was amazed that we were able to get such good results from ex-TV 16MM prints of the ads. It was really sharp!

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Andrew Woodcock
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posted May 31, 2017 02:11 PM

That's G-R-R-R-E-A-T! Osi,as Toby The Tiger used to say!

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Bill Phelps
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From: USA
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posted May 31, 2017 03:26 PM

I have the Saturday Morning Madness reel and the write up also...it's a nice package. I was going to seperate the ads but decided to leave the reel as is.

To address the thread topic I collect more than 8mm....16mm also and I have a few 35mm trailers.

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Chip Gelmini
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Brooksville, FL
Registered: Jun 2003

posted May 31, 2017 03:32 PM

I am strictly super 8 as the biggest part of my collection. Over 200 films not including trailers and shorts.

Running 2 elmo gs 1200 machines with electric changeover custom configured plus big reel Tower application.

Also video projection dvd panasonic ax200u

When more space is available, will add 16mm.

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted June 01, 2017 11:51 AM

Hey! I'm glad to hear that you have that write-up, Bill. I was quite proud of that reel. It took a long time just collecting all the commercials for that, though I wish that I had better quality prints of the Cocoa Puffs and Trix ads. It's getting fairly hard to find any good color 16MM commercials these days.

If I do another commercials reels, it will only be if I can make a collection of the "classics' you know, the Oscar Mayer ad, a Pillsbury doughboy ad an some of the classic characters, (Mr. Whipple, for instance) in good color prints. These days, only prints that were saved on specific stocks have weathered well.
Lets face it, TV 16MM commercials were like super 8 optical sound features, they were only supposed to be used for a very short time.

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Michael Lattavo
Expert Film Handler

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From: Canton, OH, USA
Registered: May 2014

posted June 01, 2017 09:12 PM

Steve Klare - did you get a 16mm projector?

I would say I am 85% 16mm, 5% 8mm, 10% 35mm at the moment - still getting my feet wet with 35, it's quite a learning curve!

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted June 01, 2017 09:39 PM

Not this time, Mike!

Sooner or later!

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