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Lee Mannering
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posted February 07, 2011 05:33 AM

It is time to be brave and show us your first effort if you have ever used Super 8mm Kodachrome Sound Film Cartridges, so dig out your first ever reel of film, load up the projector and video a clip perhaps posting on YouTube.

Just located my first sound film from the 1970’s so will get cracking and post a clip here shortly.

[ February 08, 2011, 08:29 AM: Message edited by: Lee Mannering ]

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Joe Taffis
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posted February 07, 2011 04:15 PM

good idea...I'll try to find my first [Smile]

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Lee Mannering
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posted February 08, 2011 08:31 AM

First thing to say before you view my entry here is that I was but a young boy operating what at that time was new technology in the form of a Super 8 Sound Cine Camera out and about with my Dad who had been a life long cine enthusiast.

The first film clip is an outtake from an amateur production we were making at our local Cine club at that time. Usually our story films were filmed and recorded with quite an array of reel to reel decks and all manner of synchronising equipment from camera to recorder. I can just about recall members looking stunned when Dad walked in with the Kodak Ektasound camera for the first time and it was agreed to give it a go. Of course no one had any idea at that time how to mix extra effects and the like but we carried on. As the youngest member of the Cine club everyone always encouraged me to have a go and get involved so I was nominated camera man for the project and just in my teens. Note we always used a tripod for filming, Kodak camera was in a blimp as it was very noisy and mike on a short boom.

The second clip is a little later and I’ve included this as it is filmed on Agfachrome Sound film which might be of interest. Dad and I had just finished filming a music event using 8 cartridges of Kodachrome sound film and we had one Agfachrome which we wanted to try for night filming. This had only just become available I think in 1976 so although it was very late we walked up and down in the pouring rain filming. My small young hands then had problems holding the heavy awkward camera so the shots are very shaky. Dad did a live commentary mostly making me laugh which you can just about hear in the background at one point and we later lifted the live sound off the film, mixing in some music, and then recording it back to the original film stripe to complete. Without doubt filming with my Dad was the greatest time I ever had behind a camera.

http://youtu.be/ZznTc4jzwm0

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Bill Phelps
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posted February 08, 2011 06:02 PM

Lee...Your film looked and sounded good. That Agfachrome has really nice colors!

Bill [Smile]

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Lee Mannering
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posted February 09, 2011 03:23 AM

Hi Bill and thanks for your kind comments. Agfachrome film was not as popular as K40 in our regions Cine Clubs and most used Kodachrome I have to say. Agfa tended to have a blue hue and a little grainy, but it did suit certain filming situations such as artificial night filming and I did get some great results filming in a snow storm. Dad & I used to get through quite a bit of K40 sound film filming agricultural shows, making little story films and all manner of things in the 70’s. Such great and wonderful times.

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John Clancy
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posted February 09, 2011 06:25 AM

Very enjoyable Lee - I like the way it was presented with the GS1200 running. I'm planning to modify my cine transfer unit so assuming I get round to it I might test it all out with some sound film I shot years ago. I didn't get on with sound back in the heyday so didn't stick with it but did successfully use Single 8 sound in Egypt in 1999 which worked quite well.

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Claus Harding
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posted February 09, 2011 08:42 PM

Very nice work, Lee, and that Agfa stock looks good. I never did come across any of that, only the Kodak 40 and 160 sound cassettes.

John,
I have been to Egypt; I would love to see your footage if you want to post it.

This is not the first sound cassette (as I don't recall what the first one was) but one of the first...a graduation horse-carriage ride from my school in Denmark in '79, done with my Nizo 1048 and K40 cartridges. About 2:30mins.

It's just a poor camcorder transfer done at home the other night, to give an idea:

http://www.vimeo.com/19754701

I loved the sync sound cartridges. Even if you didn't have someone right in front of the camera talking, the ambient sound added so much. A radio playing John Denver in my film pretty much "dates" it [Big Grin]

Claus.

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