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Osi Osgood
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posted July 18, 2019 11:56 AM
I'm sure that I have commented on this before ...
it must have been a long time, however. Do any of the old airline "in-flight movie" projectors actually still exist? I'm sure that, no doubt, when they replaced these with VHS machines back in the day, they no doubt scraped a lot of them, if not all.
I know that it was a neat system in which they simply pulled it down (from it's "hidden" compartment in the ceiling of the plane), ..
but not only have I never (except in pictures) seen one of these projectors ... not even one of the cartridges that they used on these machines ...
So, anybody have in pictures or otherwise of these machines, whether U.S. versions, or international versions of the same, (which might be different).
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Osi Osgood
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posted July 19, 2019 12:12 PM
Kenneth! I love that picture!
I had read that about 1971, but i believe that the article is off by about 4 years. The first known super 8 optical features, (at least, by myself) is 1967.
Occasionally, they would release a feature film "classic" but as a general rule, they were released as they came out. Disney's "The Jungle Book' is a fairly early release. i have two from either 1967 or 68, "Point Blank" and "Hot Millions" both of which, while not perfect color are still not bad to look at.
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Osi Osgood
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posted July 20, 2019 10:32 AM
You can barely see it, but there is a cartridge that it mounted onto the projector. I'm pretty sure that it played all the way through and then rewinded. I haven't seen the cartridges outside of the projector, but it makes sense that this would be the procedure as, unlike the "technicolor" cartridge system, (which only held upwards of 25 or so minutes and therefore, would be able to be pulled through the projector), these large, nearly two hour cartridges would be too heavy to be pulled through.
In other words, much like the "platter" system of a 35MM projector of today.
That is my assumption, but I could be wrong.
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Osi Osgood
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posted July 26, 2019 12:04 PM
You know, one thing that i have never ran into, in all my years of collecting super 8 optical sound prints, is one of those large cassettes with the film still in it.
Yes, i have ran into the South African "technicolor" cartridges, (news flash, it wasn't technicolor film in those cartridges), which held upwards of 25 or so minutes ...
But I have NEVER ran into one of those large two hour size cartridges used in the U.S., U.K. or elsewhere cartridges.
I could well be wrong, as it has been SO LONG since the airlines used these super 8 optical features, but i wonder if, in the "bowels" of the major airline "hubs', if there might still be stacks of old cartridges, just gathering dust, down below, in those areas of the airports rarely even entered these days?
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