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Posted by David Baker (Member # 3259) on January 09, 2015, 08:14 PM:

Here's some Americom Super 8mm films with records - http://www.ebay.com/itm/SUPER-8-AMERICOM-RE CORD-FILMS-CURSE-BIRTH-HORROR-ON-3-X-200-REEL-GOOD-/111566866299?ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

Posted by Joe Vannicola (Member # 4156) on January 10, 2015, 10:23 PM:

A friend of mine had the Americom version of The Cosmic Monsters. He had a devil of a time trying to properly synch up the record with his projector and never got it quite right. A cool idea that just didn't work. At least in my experience. [Smile]

Posted by David Baker (Member # 3259) on January 11, 2015, 10:23 AM:

Yes , same thing with me years ago.....but one thing I did was record the records onto a cassette tape . That synced it better than trying to play the record .
Yes I agree it was a neat idea at the time , before 8mm sound films came out .

Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on January 11, 2015, 04:14 PM:

Birth of Frankenstein works pretty well because there is not a lot of dialog. When they are speaking you don't usually see the actors lips so even if it is a second or so out of sync it still works well.

Posted by Joe Vannicola (Member # 4156) on January 11, 2015, 10:14 PM:

You know what, we still enjoyed these films because there was no VHS or DVD's back then. It's my opinion that if you showed these condensed Super 8 films to today's kids, they'd probably scratch their heads and say," Why watch 10 minutes versions of films when you can own the entire movie on DVD?" These is a certain charm about them; imagine taking an entire 90 minute film and editing it down to ten minutes and yet still tell the story.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on January 12, 2015, 03:05 AM:

Joe, you would be surprised how some kids like films shown with a cine projector, even without sound !

Posted by Vincent Zabbia (Member # 2453) on January 18, 2015, 12:19 PM:

Americom "A Haunting We Will Go"

http://www.ebay.com/itm/371238791088?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649

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