posted November 02, 2017 06:30 PM
Tonight, "Les trois mousquetaires", part 1. I watched recently home movie films I got from France, 50 30mt/100ft spools. I watched 39 of them so far. They are travel films (in colour) from the '60s and '70s.
posted January 29, 2018 05:30 PM
Just watched two silent films. One amateur film labelled August 1943. A Summer camp with children and catholic priest dressed as it was normal at that time. The second film is a documentary about the 1937 international exhibition in Paris.
posted January 30, 2018 04:03 PM
Two incomplete sound films : an extract of Le silence est d'or (with Maurice Chevalier) and a cartoon (without the beginning) that I believe to be La fanafare à quatre pattes (The Bandmaster).
posted April 10, 2018 05:43 PM
A British short (bought at Pimlico), Up To The Hilt, and then a French feature (mounted on a large spool), Un gosse en or.
Clinton Hunt
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posted April 14, 2018 09:15 PM
I watched Christus (1914) on a 900ft reel,it was released as 3 x 300ft reels.It has the opening titles but missing "the end". A few joins and lots of title-cards giving a great narration of the story.I think it was a big production with many people in it.
Also Pick-A-Back Plane (1938) it's a 60ft news segment from Pathe. The actual film has been well-watched and has lots of lines and a bit jumpy to start,overall it's still a great watch Here's the clip that I posted on YouTube ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt8nxyl93rw
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posted May 20, 2018 03:41 PM
5 20 mt/60ft carters of a serie of 6 (the first one is missing) : Stage Stars Off Stage. All british celebrities from the '20s. it's not a story film so the fact that the first part is missing doesn't affect the pleasure of watching the others. Films watched with my Pathé Coq, so not a lot of light but I'm still happy with the led bulb I bought following Janice's suggestion.
Clinton Hunt
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posted May 21, 2018 06:10 AM
I have a 60ft reel of that series Dominique, It’s notched so I can’t read the titles but still interesting,I think from memory that there is no story,just her doing things 🙂
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posted May 21, 2018 12:21 PM
Indeed, Clinton. The celebrities of the time (not all movie stars) are shown in their daily life. To be honnest, except Jack Buchanan, I don't know any of them. Should be intersted to list them one day and make some searches about them.
posted May 23, 2018 10:47 AM
I got an amazing PM from Maurice Trace with full informations about the Stage Stars serie. I have not enough words to thanks you, Maurice. It seems that the two Maurice of the forum are gold mines of informations.
posted October 25, 2018 03:24 PM
Son Review N°1, The Wizards'Apprentice (a film that inspirered Walt Disney), The Tiger Hunt (very interesting footage) and The Open Road (a musical). All recently acquired films at Harpenden.
posted November 04, 2018 06:21 PM
Three musical reels bought at Harpenden. They are 16 mm extracts reperfored to 9.5 (in the '60s I was told, when Pathescope stopped). There image is normally reversed (there is no text) but I projected the films with my Ligonie so I had the correct picture. Although the soundtrack is a little bit cut, sound is good (better than what I expected). Then another reperfored film (also bought recently at Harpenden) but with a magnetic soundtrack : Donald Duck : The Window Cleaners. Good colour.
posted November 06, 2018 05:56 PM
Terry,Wizard's Apprentice is complete (it has a 9 mins duration). The Son Review 1 is is another reel. It consists in : (I quote Maurice Traces' excellent guide) A Highland Honeymoon, Peter Sinclair and We All Have A Song In Our Hearts, Kim Houghton.
posted November 12, 2018 05:18 PM
Three sound films : Fares Fair, At The Circus and Ocean Tempest. For some technical reasons (my 9.5 sound projectors are not at the place I'm spending the more time at the moment), I'm not able to watch 9.5 films as often as I wished. Hope this will be fixed
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posted December 11, 2018 04:03 AM
Not exactly been watching a great deal as I've been souping up another Pathe Vox replacing the transformer and fitting a new 25 watt Amp in the back box. But I have been running some Popeyes thru it testing the machine and should be completed in time for Christmas.
Seasin's Greetinks 1933 a good cartoon for a Christmas show.
posted January 20, 2019 06:22 PM
Casanova, a tinted print. Actually, some scenes are tinted. The colour chemicals that were used to tint the stock were made to hold since they are still there, probably as they were when the film was first sold. I was surprised to notice at the beginning of the film the short appearance of the famous actor Michel Simon in a very little role.
posted May 05, 2019 06:47 PM
Monkey Tricks, a documentary (the title speaks for itself, doesn't it ?), A Language Of My Own, an excellent Betty Boop cartoon, and A Day At The Soviet Front, a Russian propaganda film (surprinsingly issued on 9.5).