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Janice Glesser
Film Goddess

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From: Sunnyvale, CA USA
Registered: Sep 2011

posted August 25, 2017 10:11 PM

It's your lucky day Graham. I'm excited for you. Looks like you have hit the jackpot ! Enjoy!

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"I'm having a very good day!"
Richard Dreyfuss - Let It Ride (1989).

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Graham Ritchie
Film God

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posted August 26, 2017 09:28 PM

Thanks Janice.. [Smile]

I took this photo this week of a line up of Eumig projectors. One projector still has the change over sprockets etc for Std 8 and goes ok. I will concentrate on that one soon, as I would really like to hear the Film Office Std 8 B/W sound film of Petula Clark singing "Downtown" that I still have but never heard.

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Dominique De Bast
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posted September 03, 2017 01:55 PM

Petula Clark Has a French version of this song (and others).

This morning, I attended a film fair in Belgium (20 minutes by train from Belgium, the place is called Ternat). One of the two (new) organizators is forum member Jean-Christophe De Block.

The pictures were takin with my telephone but so you can have an idea...

70 mm films

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Mark Mander
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From: Dunstable ,Bedfordshire.
Registered: Jan 2005

posted September 04, 2017 03:12 AM

Looks great Dominique,just nice that events like these still go on,well done to all who sold and attended,Mark

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted September 09, 2017 09:55 PM

My son and I canoed our local river today. Fall is coming and it'll be too cold soon enough.

A local Boy Scout troop had the same idea and as we finished up the canoe livery there was getting ready:

Aluminum canoes aren't the most elegant on the planet, but you can't fault 'em for a lack of durability!

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Steve Klare
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posted September 19, 2017 12:02 AM

My son decided to customize his kayak.

That's a pretty aggressive look for a craft that would be hard pressed to reach 5MPH...

-but when you're a teenage boy...!

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Graham Ritchie
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posted September 19, 2017 04:21 PM

Looks great Steve [Cool]

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

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From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted September 21, 2017 11:18 AM

A Funky Bug!

A couple of years ago I was taking a walk in the woods out where I work and I saw a weird looking ant. I saw one again this morning and snapped a picture:

It's much bigger than a regular ant and covered in fuzz!

At first I thought maybe it was the result of some 1940s Atomic Energy Commission experiment gotten way out of control, but I looked into it and found out not only is it a naturally occurring species, it's not actually an ant at all.

Even though it's called a "Red Velvet Ant", it is actually a wasp. To me this is a species made for comedy! You see, the females have a spectacularly painful sting, but they can't fly. The males on the other hand can fly but they can't sting! (If the male could somehow carry the female, they would be a formidable team! "Stand back! I've brought my wife and I'm not afraid to use her!"..."I want to sting the one on the left...NO!: MY left!")

-so even though she could probably put me on my back screaming in pain, she couldn't catch me, so I felt perfectly safe chasing her around the loading dock with my cell phone.

I've encountered more frightening Aunts at birthday parties!

Red Velvet Ant

No: I didn't stomp her. Live and let live!

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Joe Caruso
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posted September 21, 2017 03:44 PM

Steve, it looks like one of the "Zanti Misfits" - On the Belgium pictures, yes makes me wonder what 8mm was there - Maybe Bruno showed up - Well, perhaps we'll all get together someday - I hope to see many of our overseas chaps at Wildwood next month - Cheers, Shorty

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Dominique De Bast
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posted September 24, 2017 09:43 AM

Today, was held a film fair in Roubaix, North France.

On the picture above : forum members Jean-Christophe De Block (eating a spool) and Nick Vermeirsch.

Forum member Bruno Heughebaert and Jean-Christophe who is dangerousely touching a big spool (from the preceeding picture, you know what he does with them)

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Andrew Woodcock
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posted September 24, 2017 10:41 AM

Great photos of Bruno, Nick and Jean-Christophe again thanks Dominique.

Is that an S938 I see peeping out on the end of one of those photographs there Dominique? [Big Grin]

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Bruno Heughebaert
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posted September 24, 2017 10:50 AM

Well spotted it's indeed a 938.
I own one and also the 940.

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Andrew Woodcock
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posted September 24, 2017 10:56 AM

Thanks Bruno, lovely machines! [Wink]

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Bruno Heughebaert
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posted September 24, 2017 10:59 AM

I agree for the 938 but not for the 940. I had so many issues with the microprocessor that i finally disconnected it. I use now the 940 with an external amplifier.

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Melvin England
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From: Hull, East Yorkshire, UK
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posted September 24, 2017 11:23 AM

Please correct me if I am wrong, but this event wasn't advertised / promoted on this forum and it looks superb. Although I could not guarantee to attend myself, it would be nice to have been given advanced warning of it so maybe, just maybe, some of our collectors on the forum,particularly living on the south coast of England could have taken their car over to France for the day to attend as it is not very far from the coast.

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Dominique De Bast
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posted September 24, 2017 11:38 AM

Melvin. You're right, it was not advertise. The only reason why I didn't prompte it myself is that you have never any guarantee that it will be a success. Not being the organizator,, I have no information about the number of sellers who actually booked nor of what they will bring. Add to this the fact that most of the films sold are in French and you know why it was not on promoted on the forum. There was absolutely no intention to hide anything but the will not to take the risk to disappoint anyone who would have travelled from Britain.

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Melvin England
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posted September 24, 2017 11:51 AM

Yes, Dominique, I understand your point. Especially if most of the films are in French. However, as Roubaix is not too far from the coast, I am sure it could still make a pleasant day out for English collectors.

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Bruno Heughebaert
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posted September 24, 2017 12:52 PM

You're welcome Melvin. See you next year ?

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Dominique De Bast
Film God

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posted September 25, 2017 08:44 AM

Two last pictures from the Roubaix Fair. For technical reasons, I couldn't post them yesterday.

A vue of one of the 35 mm projectors that was there

35 mm super 8 and 16 mm projected on the same screen. Later on the day they even added a fourth projector.

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Michael Lattavo
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posted October 03, 2017 07:12 AM

My son recently got his own projector for his 5th birthday; last night he put a show on for his little sister. He told her he had to sit right next to it so he could "work the movie projector".

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Andrew Woodcock
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posted October 03, 2017 07:38 AM

Top drawer buddy! [Smile]

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Andrew Woodcock
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posted October 03, 2017 07:09 PM

Crikey Dominique, that is hardly an advert for the qualities of Super 8mm projection techniques!

Yikes!! [Eek!]

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Steve Klare
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posted October 28, 2017 09:28 PM

35mm at last!...(-sort of)...

A couple of months ago I became what would be called "orphaned" if I was 50 years younger. At this stage in life it is just called "life as expected", and I imagine many of you can relate.

We cleaned Mom and Dad's house out this spring and sold it June 30th. Once it was my house too. We sold it with the dining room table in place for the new family. A long time ago my Dad set up his tripod screen and we did slides and movies together with our projectors on that table.

There were some things I would absolutely not tolerate going into the dumpster those last days: one was Mom's sewing machine, another was Dad's slides. We gave the sewing machine to a very creative friend who found herself in need of one, and Dad's slides will stay with me.

Dad's slide projector suffered the same fate as many Kodak projectors and cameras from that era: some 59 cent plastic part snapped and the slides wouldn't advance. I found a camera shop in Vermont that fixes them by the dozen: UPS and PayPal took care of the rest.

Tonight, Dad's projector joined my own once again on our dining room table, and with my help he gets to tell his stories to a grandson that barely got to know him in the short time they had together many years ago. His grandmother is there too, young and vigorous, just as I want to remember her.

Thanks, Dad!

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Steve Klare
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posted October 29, 2017 08:04 PM

To Everything There is a Season...

My wife announced today it is time to change to the Fall tablecloth...so we did!

I stay set up for Cinema pretty much as often as I want under the terms of kind of a peace treaty. I'm allowed half the table (We'll call it "the Republic of South Table") and the other half (North Table) is reserved for (you know) "eating"...(and stuff).

Generally there is no conflict as long as I avoid encroaching on the DMZ and abide by some special provisions: I vacate the entire territory when company comes and I allow for certain operations by the...Government of the North.

It turns out today was Tablecloth Day. (Nobody told me! Did you know?)

So I took all the stuff off, scattered it on end tables and countertops and we did "The Autumn Tablecloth".

I put it back and did a sound check. I think I connected it up all right.

I mean: I guess it looks nice, but who can see it when the lights go down anyway?

-yet the show must go on!

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Graham Ritchie
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posted October 30, 2017 08:57 PM

Michael Its great to see the interest the kids have [Cool]

Steve.. slides are an amazing way of connecting with the past, the size of projected image and the detail, is really something you can spend a bit of time looking at, every so often I get some of ours out as well and have a bit of a slide evening.

Well Steve if you are looking for a portable 35mm, I do have one you can have, as its "on wheels", the only snag is, you will have to come and get it [Smile]

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