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From: Bothell, WA, USA
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posted December 05, 2011 03:25 PM
quote: how about this partridge family episode where keith makes a film about his family here he is operating a bolex. but what kind of editor was he using can anyone tell?
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From: Cottage Grove OR
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posted December 05, 2011 11:14 PM
Last night my film club screened a great tribute to silent films; Days of Thrills and Laughter with many thrilling and hilarious scenes.
Here is Snub Pollard, waking up the projectionist running the film way to slowly, an early Pathé serial being filmed with a hand-cranked camera, a clever title with projected images making up a letter "K", and Mack Sennett taking in a Keystone comedy with Fatty Arbuckle while the projectionist pantomimes what he sees in the theater, Sennett shooting at the villain on screen.
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From: Cottage Grove OR
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posted December 06, 2011 01:02 PM
Hey Janice,
It's a great film, with many scenes from some of the better moments in silent film...not all though. I can not express how exciting it is to see an excerpt of 'Play Safe' with Monty Banks among other treats in that film. It's a very sharp print and one defiantly worth having!
posted December 07, 2011 07:45 PM
Directed by the late Sydney Pollack, Absence of Malice (1981) stars Paul Newman, Sally Field, and one of my favorite character actors Bob Balaban (pictured with projector below).
-------------------- Janice
"I'm having a very good day!" Richard Dreyfuss - Let It Ride (1989).
posted December 08, 2011 11:34 AM
Nice links Joerg...You must have been reading my mind. Here was the next set of movie captures I had ready to post for The Last Picture Show (1971). Jeff Bridges was just a kid in this film and so was Moonlighting's Cybill Shepard.
posted December 10, 2011 07:17 PM
Disney's silly old movie Gus opens with the incompetent coaches viewing movies of the California Atoms' most recent game:
I've no idea what it is, but I'd guess that it's 1950s-era, probably not a Bell & Howell which were those noisy, encased beasts.
posted December 10, 2011 07:27 PM
Ahhh...The King of Cartoons. I'm trying to remember if we ever saw that projector running. As Bryan pointed out...that top reel looks a bit bent :-)
In keeping with the Christmas spirit...Today I was watching National Lampoon's: Christmas Vacation (1989) and ran across this scene where Clark stumbles upon some old 8mm family movies in his attic.
-------------------- Janice
"I'm having a very good day!" Richard Dreyfuss - Let It Ride (1989).
posted December 13, 2011 12:40 PM
Here is a happy days episode where Postie and Ralph want to borrow Ritchie’s dads projector but a burglar has different plans. Looks like a bell & howell.
-------------------- jim schrader "Let's see “do I have that title already?"
posted December 13, 2011 06:12 PM
Jim, you can tell that's a B&H just from the case?..I'm impressed! :-)...and great clip of Donny Most reading on the toilet :-)
-------------------- Janice
"I'm having a very good day!" Richard Dreyfuss - Let It Ride (1989).
posted December 16, 2011 01:41 AM
Here's a clip from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) Ace (Jim Carry) and Mrs. Finkle (Alice Drummond) as they look at football footage of Ray Finkle missing a field goal kick in the Superbowl.
-------------------- Janice
"I'm having a very good day!" Richard Dreyfuss - Let It Ride (1989).
add another one to the list. Watching a movie on TBS this morning I saw a group of people in a meeting room watching a S8mm film production about a train ride...it was made to look very boring...The Station Agent was the title.
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posted December 18, 2011 08:48 PM
In this scene from The Waterboy (1998) Coach Klein (Henry Winkler) reacts to Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) walking into the room while he's looking at football films. I don't have a clue to what make and model of projector.
posted December 18, 2011 09:29 PM
I just watched the 200' B&W silent "D-Day on Mars"....
The hero of the film has a 'secret camera' placed on a bookcase (a reg 8mm) that films the villian and at the end they are watching the footage and the last shot shows the projector. It's hard to tell what it is though. Pretty cool...
posted December 18, 2011 11:12 PM
someone refresh my memory, did they use projectors in any of the Porky's movies or just hold reels of film in a few scenes?
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From: Cottage Grove OR
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posted December 19, 2011 01:20 AM
Janice, That looks like another Bell &Howell mystery model.
Wayne, My dad took me to see Porky's when I was 7 years old! The trailer for it is available on Super 8, I wonder if the feature ever made into a Super 8 optical sound airline print?
posted December 19, 2011 08:59 PM
Inglorious Bastards (2009) is such a good movie on so many levels. No spoiler alert here just that the cinema plays a pivotal part in the film.
-------------------- Janice
"I'm having a very good day!" Richard Dreyfuss - Let It Ride (1989).
posted December 20, 2011 12:45 AM
Janice, that's a 1500-series B&H -- we used to see a lot of those green beasts at school -- which is the same one in Joerg's picture from Super 8.