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Posted by Chris Gavin (Member # 3911) on October 18, 2013, 06:13 PM:

Dear all, Here's 'Cable Car' a new super 8 short film I shot on Argenti B&W negative super 8 negative film.

The film was home processed (as you can probably see [Wink]

and digitized on a home-made telecine device.

You can see the film on my blog here...
http://www.chrisgavin.com/2013/10/cable-car-new-super8-film.html

Or read a little bit more about the digitizing process here..
http://www.chrisgavin.com/2013/10/another-diy-film-scanner.html

Hope you enjoy the film, any comments welcome,
many thanks for taking a look.
Chris

Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on October 18, 2013, 06:24 PM:

Lovely Chris .... I enjoyed your film very much. Even though the subject matter was more modern...it had the look and feel of old films from the 20's. Nice work!

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on October 19, 2013, 01:04 AM:

Congratulations !

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on October 19, 2013, 11:38 AM:

Very nice job, Chris.

Posted by Jean-Christophe Deblock (Member # 792) on October 19, 2013, 11:54 AM:

Great job. Well done.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on October 19, 2013, 12:38 PM:

Chris ...

Does this require a special camera? I ask as that aspect ratio is of course, wider than the standard 8mm or super 8 ratio! I was certainly intrigues and thank you for posting.

Posted by Chris Gavin (Member # 3911) on October 19, 2013, 01:13 PM:

Many thanks for the responses, really encouraging...

Osi, thanks for the question. this was shot with a normal Nizo 156XL super 8 camera, but I used a Panasonic LA7200 anamorphic adaptor lens on the front of it. This lens was designed to give 16x9 ratio for old Panasonic camcorders with 4x3 sensors, so it enables a 1.33X stretch to the normal super 8 ratio.
In the editing/post stage I stretch the pictures by %133 (in the x-axis) to give the correct ratio i.e. 16x9 images.
I also chose a really widescreen (2.35:1) ratio for the whole project, then used the 16x9 footage at various sizes within this overall framing.
Hope this makes sense.

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on October 19, 2013, 02:53 PM:

Hi Chris

Excellent work. I particularly like the multi image shots. Looking forward to more.

PatD

Posted by Dimitris Mpakirtzis (Member # 3897) on October 19, 2013, 03:07 PM:

like it very much...waiting to watch your next shooting [Wink]

Posted by James N. Savage 3 (Member # 83) on October 23, 2013, 08:55 AM:

Nothing but amazing!

A work of art.

Thanks for posting Chris.

James.

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