8mm Forum: Wanted: Sheep Ahoy and Legend of Rockabye Point

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Posted by Stuart Reid (Member # 1460) on June 21, 2018, 05:30 AM:

Looking for good colour prints of these WB Sam The Sheepdog and Chilly Willy prints. Would accept super 8 too.

Posted by Rob Koeling (Member # 35) on June 22, 2018, 07:25 AM:

Hey Stuart,

If it is for a show, I have a print of Sheep Ahoy that you are welcome to borrow. Not ready to part with it yet, though. I'm rather fond of Sam and Ralph!

- Rob

Posted by Stuart Reid (Member # 1460) on June 22, 2018, 08:26 AM:

Thanks Rob I'll bear that in mind! Hopefully I'll need it for my big outdoor camping and movie fest in Kent in early October.

By the way, it's not the one I sold 8 or 9 years back is it? [Wink]

Posted by Rob Koeling (Member # 35) on June 22, 2018, 09:06 AM:

Ha, yes of course it is! Great cartoon!

Camping and movie fest sounds fantastic, although isn't October pushing your luck a bit (weather wise)?
Have you got your eyes on a campsite yet?

- Rob

Posted by Stuart Reid (Member # 1460) on June 22, 2018, 10:04 AM:

Well, yes we're pushing our luck a little, but it's the only date we can do. I've got a friend who has family with land in Kent, a nice big field near Headcorn. They've let it out for Festivals previously, and last weekend I remarked that it would be great fun to grab my big outdoor screen, a xenon projector (hello!) and run some movies, camping out overnight. They jumped at the idea, so we're going to try and put it all together. Hoping to raise a little money for Parkinson's research too, as my friend's mother is suffering from it, and another friend lost her father to it just last week. The plan will be to rock up on the Friday, get set up, have a film quiz and maybe some music, then on the Saturday run a kid's film around 7ish, then a more adult-oriented movie around 9, with a midnight matinee for those still awake.

I used to run movie nights in the beer garden of my local The Village in Walthamstow about 12-15 years ago (all rather hush-hush as I didn't go to too much trouble re: rights clearance) and people loved the technology behind it all. It's even more pronounced these days, people are fascinated with analogue tech, so I imagine it could be quite popular.

Posted by Rob Koeling (Member # 35) on June 22, 2018, 10:44 AM:

That's a great idea! If it's open to strangers like myself, I will load up the old VW T25 with a random selection of family members, the xenon machine, a barrel of local ale and some bangers and mackerel filets for on the bbq and park the camper in the mud for the weekend.
I am well familiar with Parkinson's. Any contribution towards fighting it is a worthy cause!

- Rob

Posted by Stuart Reid (Member # 1460) on June 22, 2018, 04:16 PM:

Rob, it's totally open to you and yours - I think i'm relying on your tech after all! I'm going to press my LPU into service, and I'll source some decent PA to get the best from our optical source. I'll have a proper catch up with you as soon as the date is nailed on. Funnily enough I had a T25 for a few years, a fairly unusual water-cooled one, loved it but just couldn't afford to keep it on the road as it was so unreliable. If it turns out you've got UAM266Y there's some crazy synchronicity going on!

Posted by Rob Koeling (Member # 35) on June 22, 2018, 05:38 PM:

Ha! No, ours has an air-cooled engine. The outside is falling apart, but the engine (the original 1980 engine) is still going strong! Hoping to find some time to do up the body work a bit before the summer starts. We started talking about how many parts of a van you can replace and still call it the same van. Probably worth discussing after the midnight matinee, while finishing of the last few pints of the barrel of Sussex ale in the pouring autumn rain in the middle of nowhere in the South England countryside.
Sounds like a great event!

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on June 23, 2018, 05:37 AM:

This sounds like a great event, chaps.
How do you guys power the projector out there?

Posted by Kevin Clark (Member # 211) on June 23, 2018, 07:04 AM:

The last time I went to Headcorn I'm pretty sure the National Grid power supply had reached there Michael [Big Grin]

Joking apart I would guess very long power leads from the house or a generator would be needed - I would love to go myself Stu but I'm still waiting for a stomach operation so can't travel very far or do anything at all on bad days.

Kevin

Posted by Stuart Reid (Member # 1460) on June 24, 2018, 02:06 AM:

I'll be hiring out a generator for the weekend, for sure. Kev, sorry to hear you're not match fit, hopefully if this is a hit we'll do it again next year.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on June 27, 2018, 11:21 AM:

The Super 8 was sadly, printed on Kodak SP or eastman and while they have held up slightly better than others, they do tend to have fade on super 8. Beware1 I'm partial to the other tex Avery walter lantz, "Crazy mixed Up Pup!"! (as good as any that Tex did at MGM!) [Smile]

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