8mm Forum: What are you watching at the mo on 16?

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Posted by Simon McConway (Member # 219) on April 26, 2008, 09:59 AM:

What have you watched recently on 16 mm and what projector were you using? I have watched Diamonds Are Forever (scope) on the Elf Xenon 2000A. Prior to that, I watched The Fourteen starring June Brown of Eastenders fame!

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on April 26, 2008, 10:45 AM:

Just watched Hitchcocks SHADOW OF A DOUBT - excellent reduction I recently bought.
My trusty RM-1

-Mike

Posted by Clive Carmock (Member # 347) on April 26, 2008, 05:32 PM:

Just watched Back to the Future - stunning print.

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on April 26, 2008, 10:29 PM:

Danny Kaye in "The Court Jester". What a great film!

Doug

Posted by Paul Spinks (Member # 573) on April 27, 2008, 08:19 PM:

Disney's "Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue" with Richard Todd and the lovely Glynis Johns on my Elf RM 1. A beautiful Technicolor print that I bought off Larry Pearce many years ago.

Posted by Germaine Fodor (Member # 550) on May 27, 2008, 06:41 PM:

last watched:

"Collective Behavior - Civil Disturbances: Part I- Evolution of Disorder and Crowd Psychological Factors" (U.S. Army, 1975)
This film was made for military police and soldiers on what causes civil disturbances and riots.

"Comparative Tests On A Human And A Chimpanzee Infant Of Approximately The Same Age, Part 2" (Psychological Cinema Register of Pennsylvania State College, 1932)
Oh wow...one of the 'tests' is tying a baby chimp and a little boy to a swivel-chair and spinning them around. SCIENCE!

"Blues Maker" (Christian Garrison/Univ of Mississippi, 1969)
Shows Mississippi blues singer, "Mississippi" Fred McDowell, singing and talking about his blues. Includes scenes of the area which helped to shape his country blues.

Posted by Mark Mander (Member # 340) on May 28, 2008, 04:05 AM:

Just watched my copy of Escape to Athena that i bought at Ealing on Saturday and a lovely print it is to ...Mark

Posted by Flavio Stabile (Member # 357) on May 29, 2008, 08:39 AM:

last watched with my ELMO 16Cl-XENON

007 MOONRAKER - Lpp - Scope

MISSION - Lpp - Scope

Absoletuly stunning prints with excellent colors! [Big Grin]

Flavio

Posted by Germaine Fodor (Member # 550) on June 01, 2008, 02:27 AM:

and also-

I can't wait to watch all these great goofy "Tales of the Riverbank" which I just dug up from the basement!
(any Canadians out there - did you grow up with this show?)

Oh, and that's on the elmo 16cl.
-OR- the Bosch FDL-60....

(Yeah, ok, I actually have NO idea how to use the bosch!)

Posted by John Davey (Member # 293) on June 03, 2008, 02:57 AM:

John Waters' "Pink Flamingos" Lovely AGFA Stock, excellent condition.

"Performance" IB Tech. Need a little work.

"Team America: World Police" Bandsaw Print I am slowly putting together. Just finished Reel One.

Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on June 09, 2008, 04:24 AM:

Just watched
LAUREL AND HARDY THIS IS YOUR LIFE 16mm TV episode, and at the end of the episode all the guest audience got a free 16mm projector and a sound copy of the episode provided by Bell and Howell.
Pat [Big Grin]

Posted by Stewart McSporran (Member # 128) on June 09, 2008, 04:21 PM:

Just watched four Betty Boop cartoons and Laurel and Hardy in Tit for Tat.

John - when you say "bandsaw print" do you literally mean one that's been cut up? So you're basically splicing one foot, or less, sections together? I assume you're going to loose at least one frame for every splice; doesn't this make the film very annoying to watch?

Stewart

Posted by Paul Spinks (Member # 573) on June 09, 2008, 09:01 PM:

I have heard of these "Bandsaw" prints. You would get through a hell of a lot of splicing tape putting them together and as you get further into the reel the splices get closer and closer. Still, if you've got the patience it is a way of getting a print of a modern film reasonably cheaply. Obviously, these prints are cut up this way to stop them being made available to home collectors. However as they are available on DVD and would project in that format quite nicely it does seem a terrible shame to treat the few available 16mm prints this way. I imagine that the cost of making these prints must be very expensive and who would they be intended for?

Paul.

Posted by John Davey (Member # 293) on June 12, 2008, 04:46 AM:

Stewart-

Yup. That's exactly what I mean. I haven't lost that many frames so far. Fortunately the bandsaw didn't do enough damage to have to remove a frame or two every foot. I will view the print again and give a full report about how annoying it is. I do not remember it being as distracting as I thought it would be.

I bought this print because it was cheap and a movie I thoroughly enjoy. I figured I would try out the whole bandsaw thing and see if it's worth the time/effort.

Posted by Steven Sigel (Member # 21) on June 13, 2008, 01:42 PM:

Just screened my print of the silent version of Hitchcock's "Blackmail" struck from the BFI negative... Nice.. And actually quite a bit better film than the sound version...

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on June 13, 2008, 02:18 PM:

I have the sound version. Didn't realise there were silent versions around.

Posted by Steven Sigel (Member # 21) on June 13, 2008, 04:32 PM:

The story is that the movie was made silent, right on the cusp of sound coming into the UK... When it became obvious that sound was coming in - Hitchcock re-filmed large chunks of the film as a Talkie.. The sound version was the one in general wide release (and the version most commonly available) -- but the silent version had a limited release to theatres that had not yet been equiped for sound.

I'm not sure that it was ever officially lost, but prints were certainly nearly impossible to find until the BFI turned up a nitrate 35mm...

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on June 13, 2008, 04:52 PM:

From what I know, Hitchcock re-filmed the sound sequences under protest. He was not a fan of sound pictures at all, believing that the introduction of sound destroyed the purity of the art of the moving picture.

Posted by Steven Sigel (Member # 21) on June 13, 2008, 07:18 PM:

It's definitely true that the silent version is a lot better...

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