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David Coppola
Film Handler

Posts: 75
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2014

posted November 17, 2017 04:19 AM

After 20 years I am jumping back into Film Collecting.
In the 70s, when I was a kid, I dabbled with Super 8 sound digests and Had a Sankyo 600 (still do, somewhere). By 1980 I was a teen and lost interest. In the 90s, I happened upon 16mm collecting and eventually amassed several features and was the proud owner of an Eiki 4000p Xenon projector. After a serious relationship breakup, I sold off a lot of things, including all of my 16mm stuff. That was 1998.
Just yesterday I obtained an Elmo GS 1200 off Ebay. The seller is the next town over and I am personally picking it up and testing it out. I still have my 400' digests of Star Wars and CEOT3K to test it out with. Those films are probably very red by now, but still, I have them.
But, for the time being, I am back into the Film World.

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Dominique De Bast
Film God

Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013

posted November 17, 2017 04:42 AM

Welcome back !

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Dominique

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Matthieu van der Sluis
Master Film Handler

Posts: 373
From: Barendrecht, The Netherlands
Registered: Aug 2017

posted November 17, 2017 12:31 PM

Whelcome back, and congrats with your Elmo GS1200

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David Coppola
Film Handler

Posts: 75
From: Rochester, NY, USA
Registered: Mar 2014

posted November 17, 2017 01:04 PM

Thanks guys. I am sure I will have several questions regarding a variety of things...Most obviously, availability of parts, lamps, scope lenses/brackets, etc.
What would be a good splicing method now? I am sure the Kodak Presstapes are long gone.

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Bill Brandenstein
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1632
From: California
Registered: Aug 2007

posted November 17, 2017 03:11 PM

David, welcome back to filmish folly.

Larry Urbanski still sells Presstapes. Also tape rolls, and a lot of other supplies. Splicing cement is still around too.

Takes a little digging sometimes, but supplies and help of all kinds is still available!

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Chris Holton
Junior
Posts: 5
From: Empire, CA, USA
Registered: Nov 2017

posted November 17, 2017 11:25 PM

Hello..Im the new guy here, I'm here to learn.I have a bunch of 8m.m.(home) movies from the 60's to digitize and turn into youtube videos my main course is our drag racing history, I have some rare footage..
I purchased a wolverine movie maker "pro" to to this with and a wolverine "titan" slide/negative scanner..
I also have a youtube sight that I do "moto-vlogging" with my motorcycle..

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Ride hard-Die free

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