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Topic: What a great forum!
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Dick Lee
Film Handler
Posts: 40
From: Oklahoma City
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted April 04, 2004 11:27 AM
Wow, I can't believe I finally found some people that enjoy Super
8mm. As you can see on the display, my name is Dick Lee. I live in Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
A little background: I'm 57 years old, married with 3 children and one grandson. I am a retired Postal Clerk. I became interested in movies at the ripe old age of 5yrs. My father and his business partner that lived across the street, would put on
shows once a month. (This was in 1952) My dad had an old Ampro
16mm sound proj. and we would watch the movies on the white side of the partners garage. When you are 5 years old and watching your own picture show, the bugs don't seem to bother you. He-He
That lasted for @ 2yrs. Movies were rented, accept for a Mighty Mouse B&W Castle Cartoon (which I still have)
My next adventure into the movie realm was when I was in the Army, in 1966. I was stationed in Denver, Colorado at the Army
Hospital there. They needed a projectionist to take and show movies around to the different wards. Most of which were guys just back from "Nam". They even gave me my own (very small) room
to keep the equipment and movies in. That lasted for @ 5 months.
This was of course in 16mm also.
I was introduced to Super 8mm while I was in the Army also, stationed at Ft. Lee, Va. I was married and my wife and I treated ourselves to a Super 8mm Camera. Although we didn't have a proj. to watch the movies on.
After getting out of the Army, my next adventure with film was a part time job working in a processing lab. The lab processed B&W and Color film with the emphasis on sports training films. I would go to work at 2100 hrs, just before the High School football games were over with. We would process all the game films from all over the state until @ 0330 hrs. I did this for
2 yrs. before the owner found out I had access to a Cannon Scoopic 16mm camera with an Auto Eye. He asked me if I would be interested in filming the games and I said yes imediately. A big boost in salary, not to mention not having to smell the acedic acid fragrance. I continued this part time job for 20 yrs, until video finally tolled the death knell.
Also, during this time, I found a newspaper from a company called "Blackhawk". From there it was all down hill. With access to Blackhawk and The Big Reel, I started a small business of showing movies at kids birthday parties; I also had movies showing in 5 different pizza parlors, and would also show movies in some of the local pubs in an around some of the colleges in Oklahoma. This all occurred from 1970 to 1978. There was a highedous until @ 1984, then I after a long dry spell (forced) I got back into the hobby.
With what I had acumulated (?) during the 70's and until 2000, my collection had really taken off. Then in March of 2001, a devestating fire gutted our house. I managed to save more than I thought I would be able to, but lost a huge amount of film and projectors, including my 1200 ST.
My collection is now made up of 95% 16mm and 5% Super8. My love being with Super 8. I have only two full length features in Super 8 sound, "Hoppity Goes To Town" and "Fiend Without A Face". There's several Little Rascals, L&H, Silent Comedy, Cartoons. I am using a Copal Super 8mm Sound proj and a 16mm Ekai. My 16's are a pretty even split between TV shows and WWll
combat and training films, a few T&J cartoons mixed in.
Well I've gone on about me long enough (I appologize for the length) I've read the first 5 pages of the forum and loved every minute of it. I am amazed at the comradery (?) and the wealth of knowledge that is represented here. I am looking forward to speaking with all of you at one time or another.
So long for now and God Bless!
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