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Chad Shumaker
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 110
From: Dover, Ohio USA
Registered: Jan 2011

posted January 24, 2011 06:51 PM

Hello everyone,

For 15+ years I have been a collector of classic video games (mainly Atari, Intellivision, Coleco, etc.) and one of the really cool perks of the hobby is that there are still some die hards who homebrew their own games. Some of the end products are truly incredible considering the limited hardware they are working with. Some brewers go as far as making boxes and manuals!

So, I'm wondering, is there such a thing as a homebrew digest? I know that super-8 faded with the onset of VHS here in the states, but I couldn't help but wonder what post super-8 digests of popular films would have looked or been like (packaging and all).

For example, I'm pretty sure there is no digest for the '82 Eastwood film Firefox.
What would the packaging have looked like? What scenes would have been selected for a 400' reel?

How would one go about transfering say a first run VHS of the film (which would be the most non-hi def, close to digest style picture) from video to film?

Just something that has been running thru my mind... [Wink]

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Andreas Chmielewski
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 233
From: Greifenstein / Germany
Registered: Sep 2010

posted January 26, 2011 11:58 AM

That is a good ....wow a 400 feet Digest from Firefox...a nice Dream

But Firefox gives on Super 8...it gives a full lengh feature with optical sound...but it´s very very rare!!!
A friend in Germany haves it!!

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Winbert Hutahaean
Film God

Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003

posted January 27, 2011 10:31 AM

quote:
Just something that has been running thru my mind...

Hi Chad,

I think you are not alone.

I don;t know if it is the same idea with you, but a long time ago, I raised a crazy idea to create a homebrew digest. The post can be read here:

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[Big Grin]

cheers

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Winbert

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