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You are bidding on a portable Action Replay Player and Keyring with 4 8mm film cartridges. Batman Returns, Terminator 2, Schillaci & Platt and Crazy World Of Home Movies. In full working order. Happy Bidding!

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Or I have mistakenly interpreted the auction?

cheers,
 

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Posted by David Kilderry (Member # 549) on May 12, 2006, 08:16 AM:
 
Winbert, I bought some similar toys in LA in the late 1990's. There's a store on Melrose Ave called the Wound And Wound Toy Co and they had them for sale. I bought some of the films and a viewer, but the viewer looked different to the one in the photo.

In Australia during the 1970's there were several Super 8 based toys with the film in cartridges. One was the Mini Movie system by Apollo that had a great selection of Super Hero cartoons (Hulk, Thor etc) these were similar to the ones above. Another was the Mettoy Movie Projector. This used a longer and larger loop cartridge and had a full range of Disney titles including Herbie, Cindarella, The Rescuers etc.

I still have all of mine and treasure them as some of my favourite toys. Friends also had them and we would watch each others films; we did the same with Viewmasters.

David
 

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Posted by Andreas Eggeling (Member # 105) on May 12, 2006, 08:57 AM:
 
In the mid of the 90s there was an Issue of "Micky Maus" with a toy. A yellow box, a lens and a short super8 stripe. The silent kodak eastman polyester stripe was a temporally shortened scene from Soups On.



[ May 13, 2006, 08:44 AM: Message edited by: Andreas Eggeling ]
 

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Posted by James N. Savage 3 (Member # 83) on May 12, 2006, 02:19 PM:
 
I would be very interested to know who is printing these newer films for the viewers. I purchased a simalar "key chain viewer" from a comic book store in the early 2000's. It came with a Fletcher "Superman" cartridge. On the back of the box, it listed many cartoons available,and, to my surprise, four different extracts from the movie "Dirty Dancing"

Very strange. I would almost have to actually see and touch these cartridges to beleive it!

Nick.
 

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Posted by Trevor Adams (Member # 42) on May 13, 2006, 06:24 AM:
 
There seem to be plenty of Sneak Preview motorised pocket movie viewers at ebay. Up until recently they were being sold new by a number of e-stores. These Galoob toys were made in Hong Kong and so were their films-in neat plastic cassettes.A huge number of titles was available,from Chaplin,Shirley Temple,A&C and L&H to the modern super heroes.
Another outfit, "Fascinations" definitely sells pocket movie viewers and cassettes new at their site right now.The viewers have a focussing eyepiece-for us presbyopic geriatrics...........
 

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Posted by Del Phillipson (Member # 513) on May 13, 2006, 12:50 PM:
 
I remember these in the early 90's in the shops, they were about £4.99 each.
 

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Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on May 13, 2006, 02:06 PM:
 
Yes as Trevor mentioned, I have checked their website and the comnpany is still offering the real film.

SO WHO IS PRINTING THOSE FILMS?

Apart from that, how about the copyrights issue? even Steven Spielberg does not want his movies to be butchered and this is only 1 minute show!!??

[ May 14, 2006, 09:40 PM: Message edited by: Winbert Hutahaean ]
 

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Posted by Andreas Eggeling (Member # 105) on May 13, 2006, 03:16 PM:
 
Hi Winbert,

please give us the url to the website.

Thank you.

Andreas
 

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Posted by Trevor Adams (Member # 42) on May 13, 2006, 05:44 PM:
 
The really "hot" super 8mm viewer was the Apollo Stereo viewer that came out in 1981(also made in Hong Kong).Real 3D movies-Viewmaster style! They will have all gone red by now!
 

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Posted by Jan Bister (Member # 332) on May 13, 2006, 06:04 PM:
 
I used to have a "DUX KINO" (German-made) toy projector with little cartridges containing film loops But if memory serves me correctly, these films were a rather unusual 7mm or so in width, not 8mm... they resembled standard-8 more than anything, yet were PHYSICALLY SMALLER as well. I could be wrong, it's been such a long time.
And my wife got a cool camera-style viewer with big rectangular carts (all in yellow, I forget who the manufacturer is) - you look in the "viewfinder" and crank a handle and you can see the film, which is backlit through the "lens" at the front. The thing is designed to run at rather low speeds, maybe around 5fps, so the actual films were apparently "skip-printed" (I just made this word up) meaning only every 3rd or maybe 4th frame from the master negative was printed onto these toy films. Too bad, otherwise I'd be tempted to crack the carts open and run the stuff through an actual projector.
 

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Posted by James N. Savage 3 (Member # 83) on May 13, 2006, 09:13 PM:
 
Jan- I remember the yellow cartridges very well. I thik they were made by "Kenner". I remember picking a cartridge up from a yard sale quite a while back. It happened to be "Sesamee Street" . I did open the cart and I wound the contents onto a 50 foot reel and threaded it into my Sankyo. Next thing I knew, Cookie Monster was 10 feet tall on my super 8 screen!

I remember that it ran fine, like any normal super 8 print. I couldnt tell if it was going fast or slow, since it was silent and all muppet stuff. Whish I still had that little film clip though.

Nick.
 

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Posted by Andreas Eggeling (Member # 105) on May 14, 2006, 12:40 AM:
 
Hello Jan,

the Dux-Kino was standard 8mm, and I am sure these films were distributed by Piccolo Film, because the stupid german titles for Warner Cartoons were often the same as on super8.
For example: Alarm im Zoo.

But this is not a new toy, what Winbert want to discus about.

Andreas
 

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Posted by Eberhard Nuffer (Member # 410) on May 14, 2006, 06:37 AM:
 
Andreas,

Fascinations' URL is: http://fascinations.com/unique-toys-gifts/reel-clips-micro-movie-viewer.htm. Unfortunately, on their website they don't mention any movie titles available for their viewers.
By the way: I think the Dux Kino films were also - as Jan named it - "skip-printed".
 

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Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on May 14, 2006, 09:55 PM:
 
Jan, please no offense, yes I am taking this topic based on the fact they provide new films.

About the old toy projectors, we have discussed that here and also in this thread.

For go the website of the new toy projector, the link is what Eberhard has provided above, but please delete the last point stop (dot) as you will be re-directed to their home page. Or otherwise to go directly please click here.

Anybody who has ever bought this toy, can you confirm that the films are magnetic stripped or not.

And are they also printed on LPP?

cheers,
 

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Posted by Jan Bister (Member # 332) on May 14, 2006, 11:16 PM:
 
Sorry, I didn't realize I was derailing the topic. It's a good question: who IS printing these films? Maybe the manufacturers of these toy viewers can provide some insight.

BTW, the yellow "camera" viewer I was talking about is a Fisher-Price product. (!) But enough of that, I don't want to go off-topic again
 

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Posted by Andreas Eggeling (Member # 105) on May 15, 2006, 01:23 AM:
 
Hi,

I read now the website and they have a telephone number.

yes, who is printing these films?

I am not a good english speaker, so Jan, can you ask them?
(Könsch se mol froga?)

Andreas
 

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Posted by Jan Bister (Member # 332) on May 15, 2006, 09:15 PM:
 
Koennen kann ich schon, aber... Actually I didn't see a phone number, but if you click on the "Contact Us" link you can drop them an email...
 

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