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Topic: What was your FIRST EVER Super 8/Standard 8mm film?
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted October 05, 2006 10:25 AM
Here's a fun question, (at least, to me!) What was your very first super 8 or standard 8mm film that you bought or just got from someone else?
The first film I ever recieved was a Standard 8mm 100ft. Mickey Mouse cartoon. It was entitled "Touchdown Mickey", remember those beautiful Mickey Mouse boxes? Beautiful! I had always loved cartoons as it was and I treasured this.
The first Super 8mm film is a funny story. Someone had given me a really old crappy super 8 film projector, which I had no films for (it was a Sears Projector ... BOOO!), and I was 10 years old.
It was 1977 ...
... and there were these little "Kenner" STARWARS movie viewers, which you could buy these cassettes for. There were five in the series. I bought all of them, but ripped them all open to put all the film all on one reel, and it all fit on one 50ft. reel, (there was only 30 seconds of film in each cassette) without sound, (little did I know that Ken films had put out that 200ft. version by then).
So, these little Kenner STAR WARS cassettes were my first excursion into super 8. Gosh, just thinking back to those early childhood years really does make me misty eyed. So carefree.
I'd love to hear how far back folks like Doug Metzer and Kevin faulkners Super 8 standard 8 obsessions went back. Also, answer whether you started with super 8 or Standard 8mm.
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James N. Savage 3
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From: Washington, DC
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posted October 05, 2006 01:30 PM
O.K., here's my story......
I had recently become obsessed with monster movies on T.V. when I was 6 years old around 1969, when the classic UNIVERSAL's were shown regularly on T.V. on Saturday nights (Creature Feature).
I was getting the monster magazines, and always marvelled at the page that advertised monster home movies in 8mm/super 8 that were advertised in the back of the magazine.
I begged and begged my parents for a projector and movies and finally, Christmas of 1972, I received my first projector- a dual 8 GAF, and a 50'foot silent "Dracula" (Castle Films).
I was soooooo excitited- I rushed to thread the movie up, and, then came the one-two punch:
Punch #1- This is NOT the whole complete movie- its only a meezly 5 minutes long- and SILENT (I knew nothing about digests or silent films, only what I saw on T.V.). Big dissapointment.
Punch #2- As the ending leader finally exited the rear of the projector and the film was slapping around.....I couldn't wait to rewind it and play it again...and again...and again! I was instantly hooked, and still am today.
Nick.
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Graham Ritchie
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From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted October 05, 2006 05:27 PM
I was persuaded by my old boss to take up film making back in 1975, sounded a good idea at the time. First he says you need a camera which in itself took me months to pay of, next he says, you need a projector which he was selling, later on, you need an editor, which also, he just happend to selling, followed by the comments, of course you have to have a splicer to join it all. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
The hole exercise cost me a fortune, after shooting some Super8 I decided something better than my crummy home movies was needed so I bought my first film a Laurel and Hardy 200ft Walton Hog Wild, caught the film bug and been enjoying it ever since. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted October 06, 2006 10:01 AM
This is awesome! (Kevin, we still haven't heard from you!), I didn't list my first super 8 sound film.
It was "The Band Concert" There was a clearance bin at this department store in San Francisco, and they must have been getting rid of thier film collection there. It was part of that Disney Masterworks collection. Actually I bought two, that one and "The Old Mill". Both films were outstanding color, (still are, but incredibly scratched up!), and that beautiful flickering image! I had never seen the uncut cartoons before, and they were lovely on that big screen!
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Douglas Meltzer
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From: New York, NY, USA
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posted October 07, 2006 10:02 AM
Did Atlas films release their own digest of Frankenstien Meets the Wolfman?? Or was it actually the Castle release.
Nick,
Somehow Atlas got away with releasing a number of excerpts from "Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman", most probably without obtaining any rights whatsoever. That first 200' I mentioned starts in the ruins of the castle and finishes with the monster's appearance during the festival. Since then I've found some others, one that includes the opening graveyard scene (as does the Castle version) and continues on with Talbot in the hospital. The titles only hint at what the film actually is ("Moon-Killer", "Beast of Vasaria", etc.) I'm curious how many Atlas excerpts from the feature there are out there.
Doug
[ October 07, 2006, 06:50 PM: Message edited by: Douglas Meltzer ]
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I think there's room for just one more film.....
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