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Osi Osgood
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posted June 21, 2007 11:25 AM

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Here's a variation on the topics discussed ...

Do you still have your first Super 8/Standard 8mm film?

I was suprised to see that I still had it, amazingly! It's
"The Band Concert" (Mickey Mouse 1935, Disney Masterworks edition).

I bought it in 1985 when I lived on treasure Island, San Francisco, (I went to a cook training school there), and there was a department store that had some last films they hadn't sold, and I bought them new for 5.00 each, (the other i bought a day later was "The Old MIll".

I have it in my fridge, and it still has great color but is incredibly scratched!

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Steve Klare
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posted June 21, 2007 11:38 AM

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Have it, and have a second print so the original can go into semi-retirement!

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Paul Adsett
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posted June 21, 2007 11:45 AM

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The first super 8 film I ever purchased was the Blackhawk release of the Little Rascals film 'Hook and Ladder'. This is my favourite Rascals movie, and its a beautiful print. Looks as good as when I first got it over 30 years ago.

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Jean-Marc Toussaint
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posted June 21, 2007 11:53 AM

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My first film was a silent b&w 50ft reg. 8 Flintstones, and I still have it. I no longer have the original box as I spliced the film with 2 other Flintstones and 1 Magoo shorts on a "massive" 200ft spool, maximum capacity of my Kodak projector at the time. I was 10 years old and had no idea I would still be collecting 35 years later.

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Gary Crawford
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posted June 21, 2007 01:55 PM

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Gosh....My first two films ( 1958) when I was nine, were headline standard 8 silent Castle's , Abbott and Costello's Meet Frankenstein and , of course, Have Badge will Chase. My little Brumberger toy projector ran them so many times they were literally scratched to death..and I don't think I have them anymore. Wish I did.

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Mark Williams
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posted June 21, 2007 02:05 PM

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Now this is going back some years ...but I think my first Super 8mm movie was a Walton Black & White silent 200ft called CASTLE OF DEATH which was an extract from Hammer's VAMPIRE CIRCUS needless to say as an impressionable 12 year old I was well impressed by the nudity and violence on display!!
Home Movies in the UK had no ratings in those days so you could just pop into the nearest dixons to buy any movie you wanted!!
I remember it took me ages to save up the then pricely sum a fiver ($10) to cover the cost of the film too.

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Mark Mander
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posted June 21, 2007 03:08 PM

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My first film was Fun In Acapulco 400ft bought 12 years ago from a car boot sale with an Agfa splicer and a Chinon movie camera (and still have and use them)for the extortionate price of £4.

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Simon McConway
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posted June 21, 2007 03:15 PM

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Tom & Jerry's "Cueball Cat" cartoon. This was a Walton print...shown on my first projector...Eumig 926GL, bought from L G P Cine. This was 1995.

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Douglas Meltzer
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posted June 21, 2007 05:11 PM

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I still have that 8mm Atlas version of "Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman" (a story I've told a few times here). Come to think of it.....I still have all my films from that first run at collecting (1972-81)!

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Joe Caruso
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posted June 21, 2007 06:09 PM

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Back in the 60's -WC FIELDS; "The Great Chase", a 50' Super 8 or Std 8 Headline Edition and a 200' Complete Super 8 or Std 8 Silent of CALIFORNIA BOUND - Both long-gone now...Needless to say I was enthralled over the box-art and began the slow-climb to learning - Shorty

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Jose Artiles
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posted June 21, 2007 08:00 PM

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Hi friends,I still have muy first short and my first feature,my mom buy me a s-8 yelco 805(still have it too and running well!!!) when i was nine years old with the short of speedy gonzales called "the guillotine" and a feature.."WALKING TALL"!!! too much action and wild scenes for a child,both still have great colour today because both are agfa stock.Was my reward for approving my examinations and be a good student,WOWWW THANKS MOM!!! [Big Grin]

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Michael Scalise
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posted June 22, 2007 12:33 AM

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Let's see..that's a long time ago...(not in a galaxy far, far away) but oddly enough I think it was a 200ft. silent B/W Super 8 print of "Star Wars"...looking back...B/W how blah for a film like this! But hey...it was the first thing Ken Films released on the movie. Then they released a color sound version of the same extract...so I bought it again! Now I had something to show off on my then new Eumig 810D sound projector. And then...they released the 400 footer...so I bought that too! And the second reel later. You might say Star Wars was a Super 8 obsession!!

My other first film was actually a Standard 8mm, 50 ft reel of a film called "The Spider"...the old giant creature causing havoc on a small town...how campy!...but fun to watch.

And then the Blackhawk catalogs came and the rest is history... [Smile]

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And oh yes...I do still have these films!

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Eric Baucher
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posted June 22, 2007 05:41 PM

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I have copies of Frankenstein Meets The wolfman 50' Castle and "it Came from outter Space" also a 50" but not the ones I had as a kid.

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Dan Lail
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posted June 22, 2007 08:54 PM

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My first film was given to me at Christmas when I was mere lad of 12. It was a standard 8mm silent 400' reel and box of "The Home Town Hero" with Ben Turpin. I have no idea what happened to it and several other films that disappeared over the years. [Frown]

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Osi Osgood
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posted June 22, 2007 11:38 PM

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I know how you feel Dan. I had two reels of 16MM ads from the late 70's thru 1984. I have no idea as to where they dis-appeared to!

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David Kilderry
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posted June 22, 2007 11:54 PM

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Even though it was the late 1970's, I only had a Bell and Howell Std 8 projector, so my first films were a few Mountain Films titles. Victim of The Devil, Walter Finds A Father and Man In Space from Silver Screen - remember them?

Soon I got a Super 8 Sound Sankyo 501 and the first Super 8 were Laurel and Hardy, Flintstones and then Jerry and Jumbo by Walton, what a great cartoon. Yep, still have them all in their original boxes.

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