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Topic: Blackpool date confirmed 2016
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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted November 10, 2016 11:44 AM
Can you imagine what it would be like to be a film collector these days without the internet?
It would be very easy to fool yourself into thinking you were the last one on the planet: there might be another one half a mile away, you might even sit down next to him (or her) a couple of times a week when you get a cup of coffee on the way to work, but you might never find out.
It's not the kind of thing you just blurt out to strangers really: "Please, pass the sugar?" "Why YES! I collect films!"
At least with the Internet, we know there are other people who do this, but the next step is definitely the conventions. When you meet and get to know people, you make connections. When I need help, I know people I can ask. Even when I don't need help, I have people sending me links saying "I bet you'd like this!".
-wouldn't have happened if I never got to know them.
One of the things I love about the Conventions is definitely the film shows. Every film I have, I've seen a bunch of times. If there's printing mark or a splice, I know the millisecond it will appear. The film shows are a chance to see films and even entire genres you've never seen before. You might go home liking a whole new thing!
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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Andrew Woodcock
Film God
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From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted November 10, 2016 12:25 PM
From what I see and read Nigel, those that attend, tend to nearly always attend. So I doubt there is any risk of "losing it" whilever the organizers want to continue organizing these events.
As said, numbers were up this year at Ealing and the dinner at Blackpool is said to be the best supported since the Derann era.
All good by the looks of things, irrespective of who doesn't attend for whatever reasons. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
To Steve and then Paul also here just earlier...as I've explained to David, Paul and just about anyone else here on many many occasions,..
I do thankfully get to meet some of the people I speak with on the forums, the ones which are geographically too far away, I converse with regularly through social media, forums etc.
and if they need my help in any way, I do my best to help them.
Many have helped me also remotely, without even actually meeting these lovely people in person.
As Steve points out above, we live in an era now when we can communicate with anyone in the world at any time of the day or month of the year without leaving the comfort of our own homes.
The need to actually travel to share conversations surrounding the hobby, are well behind us now in this era.
I collect only Super 8mm film and equipment and even then, only a certain era of films nowadays. I have all the equipment I could ever had dreamed of owning just a few years back, already.
So on that front now, I seek nothing new anymore.
I have no particular interest in 16mm or 9.5mm or 35mm /70mm films or equipment.
I get all that I seek from the hobby, just the way things are thanks. ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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"C'mon Baggy..Get with the beat"
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UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!
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....anyway with the magic of the internet with "Facebook", "Vimeo" and You-tube, its been brilliant link to see what others get up to. Global Super 8 day Facebook for example, has some very interesting stuff on it and with "auto translate" it opens up a whole new world with other non English speaking film making/collectors, some of which are really into Super 8 big time. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
for the last umpteen years, that it was just a hobby 
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