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Topic: Spain 8mm scene now and was...
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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God
Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted June 18, 2010 11:58 AM
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... ,two companys in Spain(top 69 and star films) use always agfa or fuji in their prints and the company Video8 S.A from barcelona made almost all their releases on fuji stock so the colours are well manteined in that prints
That is a statement made by Jose Artiles in the other thread but triger me to raise a new topic.
We haev all heard what is the 8mm ecene in UK, USA, France, and Germany but I hardly heard Spain.
The above statement shows that there was an actual scene during the heyday, espeically because there were 3 companies releasing 8mm film.
So Jose or other Spanish members can you share here what sort of scene was and is...?
I would like to know if there were a lot of digests released by those compaies (apart from digest released by main companies dubbed in Spanish, )how many titles were released, quality, rarity, etc, etc.
Please share with us...
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Winbert
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Jose Artiles
Master Film Handler
Posts: 357
From: Spain
Registered: Oct 2005
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posted June 18, 2010 08:49 PM
Well,here we are!!! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Super 8 in Spain was a dream come true for the collector from 1970 to 1984,apart of all the cine shops that exist on the port of gran canaria (almost 50 with indian owners) and the companys video 8 from barcelona,top 69 and star films in 1969 the first serious company to hire films was "DRAGO FIMS",that company was like derann in UK, their catalogue include all the laurel and hardy shorts making from 35mm good negatives and classic films like "my man godfrey" and reduced versions from spanish movies and of course amwerican movies too like poseidon adventure and all that reduced versions well know by all of us basically,but the real explosion was in the year 1970 when the priests of the claretian order founding "CLARET FILMS",LORD that was a dream for me...a really big building with 5 plants!! YES 5!! all super 8 and 16mm,the first two floors was super 8mm and the others two was 16mmm the last floor was the general office were you can buy or hire the title you want of their catalogue,Claret Films has everything a collector want because they made an non officially agreement with marketing films and other brands to be the exclusive distributor in Spain and Canary Islands so you can buy a film of marketing film like "the ten comandaments" full length for a good price thru their office for a limited time..oh how i wish to back again to that times...you can see at least 4 prints of each tittle you desire ready for hire or buy the same on 16mm,Claret films made some documentaries itself like walton do but mostly was religious matter,sadly whe video arrives in 1984 and i saw with tears on my eyes how that wonderfull building full of film put a sign in his door " Dear collectors and friends in a few weeks we will close the cinema section and we start a little section of videotapes on first floor,all film are ready to be sold from now just ask". AAARGG DAMN ![[Mad]](mad.gif) i think that is for that reason i hate so much video and digital...i saw hundreds of shorts and features...BINNED,YES BINNED to make space to that horrible new toy called video ![[Frown]](frown.gif) ,thanks to god i was working in that era so i buy all i can... i remember i almost bankcorrup and my mother told me "More films...MORE FILMS?? Jose you are crazy there no more space in your room for that" but i always say "please mom,just one more..maybe this is my last chance in this little island to have aprint on my hands" ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) so i buy films while i can but im not rich and the rest of the films not sold was as i say before sadly binned,today me and 3 guys more ar the only film collector here in the island (for the moment i think) and my hopes are sometimes when i go to the far place of the city and ask all the time to the owners of antiques photo and cine shops "hello sir..have you got any super 8 film short in the basement,please? and sometimes im really lucky to find some shorts of marketing feature but that ,friends,is another story.......THE END
"I would like to know if there were a lot of digests released by those compaies (apart from digest released by main companies dubbed in Spanish, )how many titles were released, quality, rarity, etc, etc.
Please share with us...
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Winbert"
Hi Winbert the digest that were releases by spanish companys was Spanish movies mainly,films of Jacinto Molina (Paul Naschy) like exorcism and all the werewolf made by naschy can be found in reduced and full feature versions from VIDEO 8 BARCELONA and some glamour films and comedies form well know spanish actors like Jose luis Lopez Vazquez and,the big studios releases their edited films by its own brand like metro goldwin mayer but logically dubbed in spanish
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As Steven Spielberg says....
Nothing beats old school projection. Digital is just an imitation.
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