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Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on March 29, 2007, 03:49 PM:

I just purchased a copy of Tron on DVD. It has been out for a while but it is one that I had put on the back burner for a later purchase.

I've only seen this move once and that was at a film showing when I was in college. It was presented on 16mm film.

I think back at how special all of these various film showings were back then. It was a memorable experience that I'll never forget. Nowadays when a university has a film showing it is with video tape or video disc presentation. It's just not the same.

Don't get me wrong, I do love DVDs as they offer us a wide assortment of features at low price with wonderful sound and picture when compared to the VHS and Beta tapes. I've owned a laser disc player for several years because of the sub standard quaility of video tape.

There is, however, a certain romance to film that can never be replaced.

Posted by John Clancy (Member # 49) on March 30, 2007, 04:50 AM:

I will never forget the 16mm screening of 'Zulu' we had at my school. Can't remember anything from any lessons over all those years but 'Zulu' sticks in the memory.

Posted by Lars Pettersson (Member # 762) on March 30, 2007, 05:04 AM:

I also have many vivid memories of 16mm screenings of features in school. Over the years they showed The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Charles Laughton as well as the 1933 King Kong. I was completely riveted to the screen.

Lars

Posted by David Kilderry (Member # 549) on March 31, 2007, 06:37 AM:

Guy, I ran Tron in 70mm just after I started as an assistant projectionist, I have not seen it since but would like to.

In primary school I recall our parish priest running Abbot and Costello films for us. In high school we had 16mm films almost every week for science, social studies even sport topics and of course features and cartoons.

I enjoyed The Horse In The Grey Flannel Suit, a 1970's Disney film and later saw Gallipoli one of Mel Gibson's first films.

David

Posted by Kevin Faulkner (Member # 6) on March 31, 2007, 08:39 AM:

Got Tron on 16mm LPP.....great [Smile]

Kev.

Posted by Bruce Rawlings (Member # 366) on March 31, 2007, 12:34 PM:

I remember seing Scott of the Antartic in the school gym shown on a B&H 601. I also remember as an army cadet seing Burma Victory on a projector that needed oil to drip onto the mechanism! Debrie? And the Co-op used to come to the village hall and show Keystone Kops etc and films on how their jam was made also projected with B&H 601s I think.

Posted by David Michael Leugers (Member # 166) on March 31, 2007, 03:14 PM:

I was fortunate to see a 70mm print of "Tron" when it came out. What an awesome experience. Sad to see the direction movie houses are going. I'd rather see a nice 16mm film print than watch a video projection of the same film.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on April 01, 2007, 03:20 PM:

This post brought up great memories for me as well. I saw "Bridge on the River Kwai" over a period of days, of course and was riveted as well. We also saw the 1950's version of "Julius Ceasar" (et tu Brute) and so, I was in any number of ways, surrounded by film.

In fact, In high school, my favorite class to be in was "media class", which really wasn't a class, but they let us pick one class as an "elective". This classroom had any number of media related things, but the best part was that the local movie theater dumped box after box of movie trailers on us and I would have a hell of a great time spooling it or putting it on the fews reels. It was there where I learned to properly cement 16mm film together.

I also remember, (and GOD!! I wish I still had that!!!) a 35mm movie ad for popcorn ect, and it was mod psycedellic and was so totally COOL!!!!

MEMORIES!!!

Posted by Barry Attwood (Member # 100) on April 03, 2007, 07:24 AM:

Guy,

I have reel of "Tron" trailers/promos on 8mm on my list at the moment if you're interested, go to The BFCC Web Site and follow the link to the Independent 8 pages, then look for film No. 6532.

Posted by Alan Paterson (Member # 661) on April 15, 2007, 06:23 AM:

I remember the English Teachers at school taking us to see a film version of 'Macbeth' at the Local Arts Centre.
We loved it!
It was, of course, the Playboy Productions version of 'Macbeth' directed by Roman Polanski.
The sleep walking scene was in the nude (with a very nubile Fransesca Annis as Lady M) as were the three witches (not so good)and the fight scenes were gory.
Just the thing to show to an audience of teenagers.
It brought Shakespeare 'alive' for us. :-)
Alan

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on April 15, 2007, 06:53 AM:

That's interesting, I remember seeing Polanski's Macbeth back in high school as well, it was 16mm. I never saw video used in a classroom until well into college years. It must have been a censored edition because showing a nudie film on school grounds to a bunch of minors certainly would have earned my English teacher a one way ticket out the door back then. (...although she would have been briefly very popular with the boys!)

I remember too we discussed it was kind of disturbing that Roman Polanski would have made such a brutal film only a few years after his own wife was butchered by the Manson Family.

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