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Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on March 02, 2010, 01:06 PM:
I fully expect a film projector to make an appearance in movies like "Cinema Paridiso", "8mm" or "Goodbye, Dragon Inn", but I'm pleasantly surprised when one shows up out of the blue.
Here's one showing Bruce Lee what he's up against in "Enter the Dragon":
I'm not sure which 16mm model this is. Can someone please identify it and list another film with cameos by our favorite machines?
Doug
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on March 02, 2010, 02:42 PM:
Not a projector, but a camera. Not a movie, but a TV show.
About two seasons ago I remember CSI New York had some unusual suspects doing some really freaky stuff and capturing the action with what looked to me to be a Krasnorsk Super-8 camera. What struck me it about was that it was set in modern times and nobody in the show thought it was a big deal that they weren't using video. I think we have a friend out there in TV Land.
More recently on Criminal Minds I remember seeing Mandy Patinkin's character watching Charlie Chaplin on 16mm in his office (your tax dollars at work…). One of the young guys walked in and said "Why don't you guys get a DVD?"
-I grabbed the remote and looked for a "smack" button, but none was in evidence!
Most of the time you see somebody working a projector on screen they are fighting it. There is film all over the place and usually it ends with the image stopping and melting on screen. I guess a couple of formats from now we’ll get to laugh at what happens when a DVD gets a scratch.
Posted by Christian Bjorgen (Member # 1780) on March 02, 2010, 03:04 PM:
In the second season of "Lost", the characters use a 16 mm projector of unknown brand to watch an orientation film on 16 mm film. And of course there's 8mm/16mm projectors in "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective" and "The Waterboy".
I'll see if I can get screengrabs from the three and post ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on March 02, 2010, 04:38 PM:
There is one (16mm) toward the end of David Lynch's "Lost Highway" and one at the beginning of "Absence Of Malice". I think that one is a 16mm Bell & Howell autoload.
Doug...pay close attention to the projector at the beginning of "Enter the Dragon" because if I remember right the spools are traveling opposite directions! That's not right
Bill
Posted by John Davis (Member # 1184) on March 02, 2010, 05:34 PM:
My favourite at present is a Bolex (M8?) used as a display item in Ted's flat in 'how I met your mother' on C4
John
and don't forget Karen Allen watching her 8mm home movies on the excellent 'Starman'
Posted by Erwin Geeraerts (Member # 992) on March 02, 2010, 05:36 PM:
Ofcourse you can not ignore the 16mm camera and projector in Peeping Tom .
In the movie the Illusionist there is a very short clip of an early 20th century 35mm projector.
Posted by Yanis Tzortzis (Member # 434) on March 02, 2010, 07:31 PM:
...don't let's forget 'The Italian Job' starting with a 16mm film show-& was that projector,if memory helps,a Bell & Howell?
Posted by Claus Harding (Member # 702) on March 02, 2010, 10:03 PM:
"The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" from the Twilight Zone.
Ida Lupino as the aging actress watching her films alone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRuRCAsqVOY
I can't ID the projector, but the boxed-in design suggests the JAN models (is 1959 the right time frame for those?) At about 4:11 you get a decent look at it.
Claus.
Posted by Gary Crawford (Member # 67) on March 03, 2010, 08:53 AM:
Janet Leigh in a Columbo episode....watches her old movies on a 16mm...and in fact the broken film and all provides both the alibi for the murder she committed and the fatal clue to convict her. Also in the first Roland Winters Chan film, he has an old Ampro in his home crime lab. I have a still of him watching a film on that projector.
Posted by Fabrizio Mosca (Member # 142) on March 03, 2010, 10:08 AM:
"The China Syndrome", both with 16mm camera (a Cinema Product, if I remember right) and 16mm projector (I don't remember which one).
What about "Blow Out" with John Travolta and Nancy Allen? Not only 16mm projectors... ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
Posted by Rob Young. (Member # 131) on March 03, 2010, 12:21 PM:
Karen Allen watching her old home movies on an Elmo ST1200 at the start of "Starman"!
EDIT: Oops...already mentioned! Sorry John, missed your post first time!
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on March 03, 2010, 12:37 PM:
Here is john cleese from the python series using a projector can one tell what it is?
Posted by Joe McAllister (Member # 825) on March 03, 2010, 12:49 PM:
The John Cleese projector is a Bolex 18-5 probably std/regular 8 as the super 8 version was a different grey.
PS Michael Caine watches porn Movies in Get Carter.On an 8mm projector
The jury in "Performance" watch on 16mm.
PPS LA Confidential has a 16mm screening scene as Kim Basinger watches a veronica Lake clip.
Sunset Boulevard has 35mm
Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on March 03, 2010, 11:42 PM:
There is another Monty Python episode in 'The ministry of silly walks sketch" where John Cleese uses a Eumig projector then picks it up and throws it across the room (to off camera so hopefully the projector lived!)
There is an Ampro in "THE CIDER HOUSE RULES" also a B&H is in use in THE WORLDS FASTEST INDIAN.
There is also an interesting looking 16mm machine in SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE
Posted by Larry Arpin (Member # 744) on March 04, 2010, 12:38 AM:
In REBECCA, Lawernce Olivier shows Joan Fontaine films from their trip. Don't know what projector.
Posted by Knut Nordahl (Member # 518) on March 04, 2010, 01:24 AM:
In Freaks and Geeks (tv series) theere is a basement scene where they are watching porn on a old projector.
Posted by David Erskine (Member # 1244) on March 04, 2010, 06:20 AM:
In Granada Films 'Up on the Roof' there is an 8mm proj showing pics of a hill/mountain and with socks hanging on the screen - and there was a gnome mounted (pardon) on the projector. The machine was my Fumeo 9139 Arc - and I was the (unseen) projectionist - the things I did to avoid getting a proper job!!
Cheers, David E
Posted by David Kilderry (Member # 549) on March 04, 2010, 09:39 AM:
This will be a big topic!
Gremlins 35mm projectors with Snow White screening!
Desperatly Seeking Susan projection room in NYC theatre.
The Smallest Show On Earth - a classic if you love old theatres and projectors.
Dodgeball, I think a 16mm projector was used for old films on Dodgeball history.
The Omega Man, Charlton Heston runs films in a downtown LA theatre for himself.
David
Posted by Wayne Tuell (Member # 1689) on March 04, 2010, 11:24 AM:
In HOOPER they went back to Sonny's (Burt Reynolds) place after the big bar fight to watch old footage of "gags" they did in the past.
In Enter The Dragon (which Doug shows) Bruce Lee was shown 16mm footage of (I think) HAN who he was after. Note the reels turning in opposite directions and no film.
In Death Ship there was a DeVry projector on the Nazi ship!!! LOL
In an episode of C.S.I. they used a 16mm projector once that I recall. I think that was and Elmo AL since it shut off after the film ran out.
Posted by Mark Mander (Member # 340) on March 04, 2010, 01:05 PM:
The Italian Job springs to mind,Michael Caine uses a projector to watch the plans for the gold robbery,Mark.
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on March 04, 2010, 08:21 PM:
In the movie "Capricorn One" Brenda Vaccaro who plays Kay Brubaker is shown screening her home movies to Elliot Gould as he tries to piece together the truth, cant remember what the 8mm projector was. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
On the TV side of things who can forget "MASH" :)I think it was a B/H 16mm... either the film or the projector was always braking down a brilliant TV series.
Graham.
[ March 04, 2010, 10:19 PM: Message edited by: Graham Ritchie ]
Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on March 05, 2010, 04:54 AM:
Hi,
in "8MM" (1999) and "JFK" (1991) unknown 8mm-projectors are shown and used.
In "Blast from the Past" (1999) the family Webber is watching "TV" in her bunker. However the source of the TV-image is a 16mm-film... I guess that it must be some Silvana-projector (or is it "Silvania"?).
There are also some Super8-amateur-films about some "Projektorenrennen" like this one
Jörg
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on March 05, 2010, 12:47 PM:
HERE IS MR BILL'S COLLECTION OF PROJECTORS ANYBODY RECONIZE THE LAST ONE? ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
Posted by John Davis (Member # 1184) on March 05, 2010, 02:31 PM:
In the back of mind I remember a scene from 'Bachelor Party', a film from when Tom Hanks wasn't a serious actor.
In one scene the lads watch a porno, however someone has mischeaviously cut out the 'best parts' leaving the film with the scenes where the guy meets two girls - which then cuts to all three lying in bed after the deed.
The stag party are baffled but not as much as the viewer as the film reel looks like a full 400ft but runs for about a minute.
I think the dialogue that follows from Mr Hanks is " I may be a bit of a traditionalist but I usually like my filth to be filthier than that!"
Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on March 05, 2010, 04:55 PM:
8mm film played an important part of the story in both Brian DePalma's DRESSED TO KILL, and Michael Mann's MANHUNTER.
Posted by Erwin Geeraerts (Member # 992) on March 06, 2010, 05:04 AM:
In an episode of the series Hercule Poirot. There is a screening of a movie with a 28mm Pathé Kok projector.
Posted by Claus Harding (Member # 702) on March 29, 2010, 12:12 AM:
In the beautiful Wim Wenders film "Paris, Texas", the family memories are shown on a Super-8 machine (brand unknown.)
Dean Stockwell sits next to the backside of it, and when the film runs out, he does some sort of pantomime as if turning a knob on the back (!) of the projector....Hollywood..
Posted by Greg Marshall (Member # 1268) on March 29, 2010, 10:11 PM:
Opening scene of 'EVITA'.... a cinema in Buenos Aires. A shot of the booth and the 1930/1940's system being shut down to make that announcement.
Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on March 31, 2010, 10:06 AM:
"Memories of Me" with Billy Crystal. He is looking at some old home movies on super 8.
I have an airline optical sound print of this film.
Posted by Gary Crawford (Member # 67) on March 31, 2010, 11:06 AM:
Just remembered another one....a key scene in that wonderful Hammer film, The Quatermass Experiment (Creeping Unknown in the U.S.) Quatermass and others watch a film of what happened to the ill fated crew of the Q-1, the first space ship Quatermass sends into space. You get to see part of the film lab where the film is processed...only about a hundred foot reel of 16mm. Don't know what projector it was.
Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on April 04, 2010, 05:38 PM:
Excellent work, lads!
Another one is the William Castle film "The Tingler" which has a great scene in a movie theater.
Here's what we have so far:
8mm
Absence of Malice
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Bachelor Party
Blast from the Past
Blow Out
Capricorn One
China Syndrome, The
Chinese Ring, The (Charlie Chan)
Cider House Rules, The
Cinema Paradiso
Columbo (TV Episode) "Forgotten Lady "
Criminal Minds (TV Episode)
CSI (TV Episode)
Death Ship
Desperately Seeking Susan
Dodgeball
Dressed to Kill
Enter the Dragon
Evita
Freaks and Geeks (TV Episode)
Get Carter (1971)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Gremlins
Hercule Poirot (TV Episode)
Hooper
How I Met Your Mother (TV Episode)
Italian Job, The
JFK
LA Confidential
Lost (TV Episode)
Lost Highway
Manhunter
MASH (TV Episode)
Memories of Me
Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Episode)
Mr. Bill (TV Segments)
Omega Man, The
Paris, Texas
Peeping Tom
Performance
Quatermass Experiment, The (Creeping Unknown)
Rebecca
Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine, the (Twilight Zone TV Episode)
Slumdog Millionaire
Smallest Show on Earth, The
Starman
Sunset Boulevard
Tingler, The
Up on the Roof
Waterboy, The
World's Fastest Indian, The
Doug
Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on April 04, 2010, 09:40 PM:
Here is a silent 16mm projector in use in THE ADDAMS FAMILY movie with Gomez and Uncle Fester are watching some old childhood films.
There is a black Eiki in the background in the theatre scene in the new version of THE LONGEST YARD.
a Bell and Howell 606 makes an appearence in the mini-series HAVEN, in the White House the president is viewing some war footage with the projector sitting on his desk.
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on April 05, 2010, 09:01 AM:
There is also a projector in one of the recent Swedish Wallander films. It's a Eumig, not shure witch model. Wallander is sitting at a desk running the projector at the wall some 2 meters away, and the picture fills the wall from flor to ceiling. Ah, the wonders of makebelief in movies.
In a episode of the Austrian tv series "Kommissar Rex" one of the caracters are watching a film on a GS1200. It's almost ten years since I saw this, but I remember he watched the film frame by frame, so I guess it must be a Elmo, unless there is another projector with this capacity.
Posted by Daniel Aveline (Member # 1714) on April 05, 2010, 04:29 PM:
I remember seeing a 16mm projector in St Ives
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on April 05, 2010, 06:06 PM:
I just remembered that in one of the Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn films, I don't recall the title right now, they are looking at some home movies on 16MM.
And in 1993-94 they made six movies here in Sweden based on the novels by Maj Sjöwall/Per Wahlöö about the policeman Martin Beck. In the first of these, Roseanna, they are watching footage of a murder victim on a Elmo (atleast I think it was an Elmo, it's around 12-13 years since I saw these films). And in the following five films you can se the projector sitting on top of a bookshelf in Martin Becks office.
Posted by James N. Savage 3 (Member # 83) on April 06, 2010, 06:15 PM:
A forgotten movie from the 80's, "The Boy Who Could Fly". The family watches home movies on an ELMO, if I remember correctly. In fact, thats the ONLY thing I remember about that whole movie!
A more recent movie is "Butterfly Effect". In the last scene, Ashton K. uses a projector and home movies to "transport" him back in time.
James.
Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on April 14, 2010, 07:27 PM:
Just caught a bit of "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice". There's a B&H 16mm projector in the living room, with a film threaded up.
Doug
Posted by Greg Marshall (Member # 1268) on April 14, 2010, 07:59 PM:
I'm thinking some football training films were being shown in "Heaven Can Wait", 1978-Paramount, Warren Beatty. I'm recalling them being 16.
Posted by Gary Crawford (Member # 67) on April 15, 2010, 08:31 AM:
Almost forgot this one.....in the great 1936 or so William Powell/Jean Arthur mystery, The EX MRS. BRADFORD, Powell has cameras placed at various points of a race track...and later in his apartment , he screens the edited film ...35mm...from a booth ..with a screen that comes down on the opposite wall... The film helps him tag the killer. His movie set up is really nice.
Posted by Tom A. Pennock (Member # 202) on April 16, 2010, 11:55 PM:
In the movie "College Confidential" (Universal, 1960) Steve Allen (as a college professor) uses a 16mm Bolex S221 optical/magnetic projector to show a film. This projector was made in 1960 and was a new model then. The film was made the same year Bolex introduced this model. I used one of these units for about three years for a film society. The projector was built like a tank. Best of it's kind.
Also in the 1972 ABC "made for television" movie "That Certain Summer" Hal Holbrook uses a Kodak Super 8mm Instamatic movie projector to watch childhood movies of his son who was actor Scott Jacoby in the film.
Posted by Joe Taffis (Member # 4) on April 18, 2010, 02:31 PM:
did anyone mention the end of MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, where they're watching the film?
Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on April 22, 2010, 01:31 PM:
In "Love and Bullets" (available as a Walton digest), Charles Bronson gets to hang out with a 16mm friend.
Doug
Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on October 16, 2010, 04:42 PM:
In The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Terry-Thomas can be found operating a hand cranked projector to screen a risque 16mm film.
That film got Terry's blood flowing only for the good doctor to come along and drain every last drop!
Doug
Posted by Patrick McGrath (Member # 1210) on October 16, 2010, 06:52 PM:
In the sequel to Godzilla, Gigantis The Fire Monster(or Gojira no Gyakushu-Godzilla's Counterattack ) we see Dr. Yamane from the first film screen a 16mm film of Godzilla's rampage on Tokyo to the officials gathered in Osaka awaiting its impending arrival in their fair city.
Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on October 17, 2010, 08:54 AM:
"Full Moon in Blue Water" Little film directed by Peter Masterson starring Gene Hackman and Terri Garr. Main character in the story is depressed with the recent passing of his wife; he spends his time watching home movies of his late wife on Super 8.
This film was made in my home county of Galveston Texas.
Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on October 17, 2010, 09:12 AM:
There's an "X-Files" episode called "Sunshine Days" where in one scene a psychiatrist is showing detectives old Super 8 Sound home movies on an Elmo.
Posted by Joe McAllister (Member # 825) on October 17, 2010, 03:51 PM:
"Clash by Night" 1952 has scenes in the projection box where Robert Ryan works.
"Ruby" 1977 is set in a drive in theatre.
"The Blob" has scenes in a projection box.as
does"Terror" 1978.
"Dillinger is dead" has several scenes of the hero watching 16mm home movies.
Posted by John W. Black (Member # 1082) on October 17, 2010, 11:06 PM:
There is a B&H 16 machine in Quiz Show.
Posted by Nick Field (Member # 2132) on October 18, 2010, 12:50 AM:
Another one to add I've not seen this film in a long time,omen3 where the family are sat watching a film on their big screen and they even have their own projection room too.
Posted by Joe McAllister (Member # 825) on October 18, 2010, 06:03 AM:
""On the Beat"
Norman Wisdom classic has a long sequence in a preview theatre where the hero has to watch 16mm movies on a "Peeping Tom" style B&H projectore.
Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on October 20, 2010, 07:37 PM:
In Friday The 13th The Final Chapter one of the teens is running an Eiki and watching Cine Art nudie movies. A 2000' reels runs out. When he walks up to the screen and turns around Jason stabs him in the back! Through the back of the screen.
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on October 20, 2010, 10:29 PM:
Way back when I was in my early teens Jim Hutton starred in the Ellery Queen TV mystery series. I remember one episode where the murderer was a projectionist and Ellery Queen busted his alibi because he'd accidentally let the feature he was showing run past a reel change while he was doing the deed. From this goof they were able to figure out he wasn't up in the booth during the murder.
Beyond the idea that crime doesn't pay I learned from this about the circular mark appearing on screen just before a reel change, and until I actually owned a feature on multiple reels of film about 30 years later I remembered it too.
Posted by Joe McAllister (Member # 825) on October 21, 2010, 07:16 PM:
In "Cat and the Canary" 1978 the beneficiaries of a will hear it read via a film of their dead relative via projection.
Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on October 21, 2010, 11:56 PM:
Steve,
That sounds very similar to the Columbo episode "Make Me a Perfect Murder", where Trish Van Devere's alibi of changing reels in the projection booth doesn't fool the Lieutenant. The cue marks give her away.
Doug
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on October 22, 2010, 01:14 AM:
It could have been Columbo: 30+ years on the Memory sometimes blends things together!
Posted by Nick Field (Member # 2132) on October 22, 2010, 01:26 AM:
Brewsters millions if i remember as brewsters distant relative strikes a deal with him to spend all the cash for his big inheritance.
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on October 26, 2010, 06:15 PM:
I always remember this one "Last Action Hero" can anyone tell me if those scenes were filmed on a set or in a real theatre, it looks real to me ....oh... not a bad movie either good cast.
Graham.
Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on October 26, 2010, 07:13 PM:
oops
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on October 26, 2010, 10:08 PM:
Although "Cinema Paradiso" has been mentioned I thought I might add this neat photo.
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on October 27, 2010, 06:23 AM:
Just remembered a Swedish film, Här har du ditt liv -1966, (Here's Your Life - US title).
It is set in circa 1910-20, ant the main caracter, among other professions, have a stint as, at first, a travelling showman with a handcranked projector, and later at a real cinema with a electrically driven projector, a point that is made a big fuzz about.
This is a really good movie and I can reccoment it, but bevare, find the original and NOT the US version. The latter is 110 minutes while the original is 169 minutes long.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060529/combined
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on October 28, 2010, 12:25 PM:
In Apollo 13 there is a scene at the very end where Jim Lovell walks across the carrier deck and passes a Navy crewman with what I think is a Bell and Howell Super-8 camera.
-always torques me off because he's one-handing it! C'mon guy! It could be the most interesting footage you'll ever shoot: use both hands!
(Not a complete surprise: Ron Howard's first films were Super-8.)
What's even more interesting about that scene is when Jim Lovell as played by Tom Hanks shakes hands with the ship's Captain, as played by the real Jim Lovell. (-nice touch!)
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on October 31, 2010, 06:47 PM:
I wonder if this classic film brings back memories
Margaret Rutherford
Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers.
Posted by Wayne Tuell (Member # 1689) on August 09, 2011, 11:54 PM:
Add one more to the list
In the web series BACKWASH they use a projector in chapter 9
The completely silly, 3 stooges series can be seen on Crackle.com
http://www.crackle.com/c/Backwash/Survival/2482897/
I only found the series because the opening chapters were filmed in my small town in Nevada (which they claimed to be in So.Cal. LOL)
[ August 10, 2011, 01:45 AM: Message edited by: Wayne Tuell ]
Posted by Austin Holcomb (Member # 2507) on August 09, 2011, 11:56 PM:
theres a episode of alf on season 3 were there showing the kids movies from woodstock
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on August 10, 2011, 12:32 PM:
I really like this thread for so many reasons - here are a list of some films I remember seeing either a projector or a screening room with an "invisible" projector.
- Play It Again Sam
This is one of my favorite films, I have it on 16mm and he does have a projector all loaded up with a 1600' reel in his apartment. This is a shot of Allen with Bogey discussing women, next to his film collection. I bet there is an Igmar Bergman in there somewhere. The film begins with Allen watching Casablanca at a movie theater. Later he personally screens a film for Diane Keaton where we see another projector that he turns on and walks away from. (I would never do that - unless I had to go to the bathroom!)
Next is 'The Candidate' with Robert Redford - in a scene where they are watching political endorsements in an office - we see a Filmosound getting turned off - there is a big stack of films they are going through, looking for material to edit together. There is also a nice Moviola in the film that they use to do the editing for their own political endorsed ads.
I'll post a picture of that scene soon - I could not find one online.
- Raging Bull
Another of my favorite films, Raging Bull has beautiful Kodachrome pictures shot by Martin Scorsese for a wedding montage. Above we see how there is an "imaginary" projector running this film - this may be symbolic of our mind!
We also get the same effect when we see the opening sequence to one of my favorite television shows - 'The Wonder Years'
Just who is running this imaginary projector? It's always Dad, of course! However, some of my favorite scenes in movies are of the characters of the films actually going to the movies! These immediately come to my mind as most memorable (aside form the many Woody Allen films):
- Summer of '42
In this coming of age film the kids go blind dates to see Bette Davis in 'Now, Voyager'. The scene begins in the lobby but, quickly they cut to the "imaginary" projector, panning over to the big screen. Something about a movie-within-a movie-makes the plot momentarily mystical.
- A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick's 'The Shining' features a clip from 'Summer of '42' while a television is on in the lobby of the hotel. A few years before that films release, we see this image of Malcom McDowell as 'Alex' "watching" a 16mm propaganda film to re-sensitize him to ultra-violence is among the most disturbing I have ever seen. I wish there was a Super 8 release of this film.
Finally, there is The Shawshank Redemption
This is one of the only "buddy' films I like. I use to watch it many times on VHS, the scene in the theater where they watch 'Gilda' is among my favorites. If there was only a moment of escape from prison of the mind, films was the way to do it. Nothing like an unobtainable pretty lady glowing right in front of you.
[ August 12, 2011, 11:36 PM: Message edited by: Gerald Santana ]
Posted by Wayne Tuell (Member # 1689) on August 11, 2011, 12:14 AM:
That clockwork orange scene ALWAYS makes me shiver. I can't imagine having my eyes propped open and in a straight jacket...let alone having to do take after take after take to get it just right. Scenes like that would be the only plus side to computer generated effects IMHO. ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on August 11, 2011, 09:08 AM:
ok here one not from a movie but a music video the is from greg khins video i lost in jeopardy can anyone tell what kind of jector this is?
Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on August 11, 2011, 04:43 PM:
Christmas Vacation: The scene where Clark Griswold is watching home movies in the attic.
Inglourious Basterds: Several scenes in the projection booth of the theater.
Super 8: The kids watching their film in the bedroom.
Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 1183) on August 12, 2011, 07:59 PM:
Hellzapoppin' (1941) - Shemp Howard is a theatre projectionist running what appear to be 35mm Motograph projectors. This is one of the funniest feature films I have ever seen.
Night Of The Comet - A number of scenes is a projection room.
Targets - The drive-in projection room. Sniper kill projectionist when he is looking out the window for a change over.
The Blob - The projectionist get devoured while running the show.
Sherlock Jr. (1924) - Buster Keaton as a projectionist.
Mel Brooks Silent Movie - I vaguely remember the scene with the reel of film wound around Dom Deluise being fed into the projector.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on August 20, 2011, 01:09 PM:
Here's a screen shot from an Anthony Hopkins thriller called "The Looking Glass War" on 16mm. Can anyone recognize the projector in this scene?
Posted by John Davis (Member # 1184) on August 20, 2011, 01:22 PM:
it looks a bit like a 'Specto'
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on August 20, 2011, 02:25 PM:
who can forget this episode of gilligan's island when the castaways find a crate full of film and equipment question is what kind of projector is this a 35mm?
Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on August 20, 2011, 02:49 PM:
Judging by the film cans on the right of the projector, 35mm. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
Posted by John Davis (Member # 1184) on August 20, 2011, 03:28 PM:
.... and solar powered.
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on August 20, 2011, 07:24 PM:
Castaway Pictures Presents
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on September 15, 2011, 11:18 PM:
Correction, John -- Gilligan Powered
The other night I watched THE CAT FROM OUTER SPACE. The premise of the film is: A UFO is stranded on earth and impounded by the US government. Its pilot, a cat with a collar that has special powers, including the ability to allow the cat to communicate with humans, has eluded the authorities and needs the help of a man named Frank in order to reclaim and repair his ship to get back home.
Roddy McDowall spies on McLean Stevenson with a Super 8 camera while he's being levitated by the cat. Later, he screens the film for his boss but, the footage but it is shot upside down.
These images are from a youtube video dubbed from poor quality VHS...
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on September 16, 2011, 08:59 AM:
How about all the *M*A*S*H* epsodes where they are watching features in the mess tent on 16mm with Klinger running the projector?
At least half the time it's the wrong film or the same film they've had for weeks, or the film breaks or in one case the tent rips and drowns the machine with rain water.
Klinger has to show multi-reel features on a single machine, but as they say: "War is Hell".
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on September 19, 2011, 12:58 AM:
We watched TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN last night on 16mm, these pictures below are from youtube screen captures. Woody Allen plans a bank robbery and sets up a film for the criminals to see on 8mm. What is the projector?
This is what he accidentally projects -- Nice color (and sound) on an 8mm print.
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on September 19, 2011, 08:32 AM:
That trout fishing movie has a interesting year of copyright.
Obviously someone who have no idea about roman numerals have done this, OR, it's made specially as a joke for all who have taken the time to learn roman numerals to enjoy.
What it says?
M=1000, C=100, X=10, IV=4 and III=3.
Perhaps it means year 1114 month 3?
If so, they really where before their time in Quebec. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on September 19, 2011, 09:58 AM:
Hi Lars,
This is a comedy so, the year in Roman numerals are 1117.
Good "catch"!
Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on October 15, 2011, 06:31 AM:
The Stranger directed by Orson Welles and starring Welles, Edward G. Robinson, and Loretta Young.
Loretta Young watching a film about Nazi concentration camps.
The projector.
Does anyone recognize what projector it is? It looks like 16mm.
After watching the film she storms out onto the balcony as they show the end of the film slapping against the desk.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on October 15, 2011, 01:12 PM:
Bryan,
I just saw this print the night before you posted your reply! I have a 16mm copy, slightly on the "dark" side and when this scene came up on the 3rd reel, I missed my opportunity to take a screen-shot.
I have a projector like this(but different), a 300' capacity Bell & Howell Filmo Master. I think it's an 8mm because I also have a patented 200' Keystone take-up reel that looks just like that. There also appears to be about 50' of film on the supply reel, needless to say no bad movie is ever too short! While this movie, 'The Stranger' is a great one.
Side note: When Lorreta Young runs out of the room, Edward G. follows her and leaves the projector running and the lamp ON! Only in the movies...
Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on October 15, 2011, 08:03 PM:
Speaking of Nazi screenings, I remember in the film THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PIJAMAS, there is a scene of a 16mm sound projector being used to show a group a propaganda film about how inmates in a prision camp are being treated fairly, the film is being shown by the commandant of the camp to a group goverment officials, I think the projector is a Bauer 16mm.
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Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on November 02, 2011, 01:43 PM:
Here's a very nice LPP original of COMING HOME on 16mm. It has a quick scene with a projector, anyone know what it is? It looks like another bell & Howell to me. The screen looks like a Da-lite...
Posted by Claus Harding (Member # 702) on November 02, 2011, 05:46 PM:
Maybe it's nostalgia talking, but the screen does looks like a Da-lite silver screen; my "first one"
As for the projector, I cannot tell.
Claus.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 10, 2011, 12:26 AM:
Moonlighting...Season 2....1986
Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 1183) on November 10, 2011, 09:21 AM:
Dario Argento's "Demons", about people trapped in a demonic art deco movie theatre. They eventually break into the booth and find nobody is running the movie, much like a modern multiplex.
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on November 10, 2011, 11:35 AM:
the projector in moonlighting looks like a singer projector
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on November 10, 2011, 12:08 PM:
Jim, It does look like a 16mm Singer...I wonder which film they are watching.
Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on November 10, 2011, 03:38 PM:
Yes, it's a Singer Zig Zag! They are watching a 3D movie.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 10, 2011, 08:47 PM:
This was a segment at the beginning of the show...where Maddie and David apologize tothe viewer that this weeks episode was suppose to be in 3D...but the post office didn't get the 3D glasses mailed out in time :-)
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 11, 2011, 08:35 PM:
I have quite a few of the movies mentioned in this thread. I'm going to go through them and make screen captures of the ones not already pictured.
Here's the Twilight Zone episode:
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 13, 2011, 02:05 AM:
I'm a big fan of '80's movies....and this is one of my favorites:
It's kind of hard to see, but can anybody identify the projector?
Posted by John Davis (Member # 1184) on November 13, 2011, 07:20 AM:
It looks like one of the Elmo range. Starman is one of my favourite films and I think the super 8 footage is genuine super 8 footage and not a mockup
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 13, 2011, 01:08 PM:
The Boy Who Could Fly is an obscure 80's movie...not one of my favorites... never really understood it, but none-the-less it fits nicely into the topic of this discussion -)
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 14, 2011, 12:18 PM:
The Abraham Zapruder film shot on the day Kennedy was shot in Dallas was shown in the court scene of Oliver Stone's JFK. This August I visited the 6th Floor of the Book Store Depository where Oswald fired the fatal shots. It is now a museum and has the Zapruder camera (Bell & Howell 414PD) on display. I got an erie feeling looking out the window down onto Dealey Plaza and later standing on the "grassy knoll". I recommend anyone visiting Dallas to include this museum in their itinerary.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on November 14, 2011, 12:28 PM:
Great screen captures Janice!
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on November 14, 2011, 01:41 PM:
remember the episode of leave it to beaver where the boys sell perfume to get a projector? This is from my 16mm print. What kind of projector is this?
Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on November 14, 2011, 02:15 PM:
That looks like a Keystone K-68.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 14, 2011, 03:28 PM:
Doesn't the K-68 have a light on the base just above the power switch. I found this photo it's labeled a Keystone 95 (circa 1953) that looks like it might be the same projector. What do you think?
Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on November 14, 2011, 06:08 PM:
I think your right Janice. The K-68 does have a light.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 14, 2011, 11:08 PM:
Well it's hard to top "The Beaver" ... I remember having a big crush on Wally :-)
Here's a movie that I don't think has been mentioned called Stealing Home. It starred Mark Harmon, Jodi Foster, Jonathan Silverman, Blair Brown, and Harold Ramis. Time-wise the flashbacks in the movie were centered around 1964.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 17, 2011, 12:19 AM:
Brian De Palma has made some very disturbing movies and BLOW OUT is no exception.
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Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on November 17, 2011, 04:48 AM:
Some of the trailers for "the artist" (2011) are also showing a projector (getting destroyed by the main actor). Not sure whether this scene is also in the final film...
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 18, 2011, 05:33 PM:
The Butterfly Effect...I tried to brighten up the bottom photo to get a better look at the projector. Can anybody identify it?
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on November 18, 2011, 05:53 PM:
Your posting some awesome pictures Janice! Nice job.
That is a Bell & Howell. As far as a model # I'm not so sure. I have one and I still can't recall!
'Blow Out' is one of my personal favorites. It shows a lot of behind the scenes of filmmaking....sound work, editing, matching picture and sound, projecting etc.
Bill
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 18, 2011, 08:00 PM:
Thanks Bill...I didn't realize how much fun this would be. I'm going to take a stab at the projector model Ashton Kutcher is using...
Bell & Howell Filmosound 8 - 358A Looks awful close to this picture.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on November 18, 2011, 08:49 PM:
This is may favorite new favorite thread. Keep up the great work Janice!
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on November 18, 2011, 10:01 PM:
That's really close, Janice, but the volume knob at the front bottom and jack under the manual advance wheel are missing -- so my guess is that we're looking for a silent model. This looks very similar to my first projector, a B&H 357B, although there are also several models similar to it.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 19, 2011, 12:29 AM:
Good eye Bill!!!...They are all starting to look alike to me....OK...how about this one Bell & Howell 487A.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 20, 2011, 12:13 AM:
Dodgeball...This movie cracks me up :-)
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on November 20, 2011, 02:09 PM:
What's the projector in a scene from the amazing film BILLY JACK (1971), at "the hippie-themed" Freedom School?
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 27, 2011, 08:46 PM:
I don't have any screen captures for this post....but I saw the new Martin Scorsese 3D movie HUGO today while enjoying my visit in L.A. It has an old hand-cranked projector in one of the scenes and is a wonderful movie. I highly recommend it for members of this forum :-)
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Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on November 28, 2011, 04:10 AM:
Showing my age a bit here but a popular British animation series AKA The Wombles did a great episode in 1975 titled FILM SHOW. In this the voice of Bernard Cribbins covers the animation for the Wombles who are usually busy picking up rubbish and recycling it but in this episode they have a film show after making a film. This series was very popular in the UK and don’t think I missed an episode if I could help it.
Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on November 28, 2011, 05:06 AM:
Gerald,
That projector in BILLY JACK looks like one of the RCA models. Too dark to tell for certain.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 30, 2011, 07:04 PM:
HEAVEN CAN WAIT (1978) was as nice updated remake of the 1941 movie Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on December 01, 2011, 10:52 AM:
This is from a Hollywood prop warehouse so they may have been in movies.
The Chive
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 02, 2011, 01:14 PM:
Here is a screen capture of the scene mentioned in an earlier post of a cameraman with a 8mm camera shooting footage of the return of the Apollo 13 crew. In this shot is Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon.
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on December 02, 2011, 06:50 PM:
Film goof! Anachronism alert!
Am I right? Apollo 13 was 1970, and Kodak didn't put 8mm (super 8) sound in a camera until 1973. Right?
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 02, 2011, 11:00 PM:
Bill, maybe those aren't earphones...but a noise canceling headset? He's also wearing googles...kind of strange. I guess we just have to keep reminding ourselves that historical accuracy isn't always mandatory in movies :-)
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on December 03, 2011, 01:59 PM:
No, and there's no microphone visible in that frame that's attached to the camera, so probably not off after all.
Earphones always sound better when placed behind the ear, after all..
Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on December 03, 2011, 02:35 PM:
I think they were called plane captains. My son was one in the Navy. There were responsible for landing the aircraft on the carrier. They would signal the pilot with flags. He is wearing a colored vest also.
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 03, 2011, 10:06 PM:
Yes Pat...that's what I was thinking, but I didn't know what they were called. I guess this guy just flagged down a plane and just happened to have a camera with him too :-)
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 04, 2011, 07:05 PM:
The original version of The Italian Job (1969) starred Michael Caine, Noel Coward, Benny Hill, and Rossano Brazzi. There was a remake in 2003 starring Mark Wahlberg and Donald Sutherland, but I haven't seen it...not sure if there are any projectors in that version.
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on December 05, 2011, 01:42 PM:
how about this partridge family episode where keith makes a film about his family here he is operating a bolex. but what kind of editor was he using can anyone tell?
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Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on December 05, 2011, 03:25 PM:
quote:
how about this partridge family episode where keith makes a film about his family here he is operating a bolex. but what kind of editor was he using can anyone tell?
It looks like it could be a Bolex V180 editor.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on December 05, 2011, 11:14 PM:
Last night my film club screened a great tribute to silent films; Days of Thrills and Laughter with many thrilling and hilarious scenes.
Here is Snub Pollard, waking up the projectionist running the film way to slowly, an early Pathé serial being filmed with a hand-cranked camera, a clever title with projected images making up a letter "K", and Mack Sennett taking in a Keystone comedy with Fatty Arbuckle while the projectionist pantomimes what he sees in the theater, Sennett shooting at the villain on screen.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 06, 2011, 02:49 AM:
This looks so cool Gerald. What a treat!
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on December 06, 2011, 01:02 PM:
Hey Janice,
It's a great film, with many scenes from some of the better moments in silent film...not all though. I can not express how exciting it is to see an excerpt of 'Play Safe' with Monty Banks among other treats in that film. It's a very sharp print and one defiantly worth having!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 07, 2011, 07:45 PM:
Directed by the late Sydney Pollack, Absence of Malice (1981) stars Paul Newman, Sally Field, and one of my favorite character actors Bob Balaban (pictured with projector below).
Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on December 08, 2011, 03:37 AM:
Here's a link to a French webpage about "cinemas shown in movies"...
And a similar link: "Marquees in Movies" ist a collection of screenshots from movies showing movie theaters and their marquees.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 08, 2011, 11:34 AM:
Nice links Joerg...You must have been reading my mind. Here was the next set of movie captures I had ready to post for The Last Picture Show (1971). Jeff Bridges was just a kid in this film and so was Moonlighting's Cybill Shepard.
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Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on December 09, 2011, 09:35 PM:
"Ladies and gentlemen, bow to His Highness of public domain cartoons leftover from the Great Depression!"
The King of Cartoons from Pee Wee's Playhouse
Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on December 10, 2011, 05:27 PM:
Gerald, something does not look right with that projector. The top reel appears to be out of alignment.
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on December 10, 2011, 07:17 PM:
Disney's silly old movie Gus opens with the incompetent coaches viewing movies of the California Atoms' most recent game:
I've no idea what it is, but I'd guess that it's 1950s-era, probably not a Bell & Howell which were those noisy, encased beasts.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 10, 2011, 07:27 PM:
Ahhh...The King of Cartoons. I'm trying to remember if we ever saw that projector running. As Bryan pointed out...that top reel looks a bit bent :-)
In keeping with the Christmas spirit...Today I was watching National Lampoon's: Christmas Vacation (1989) and ran across this scene where Clark stumbles upon some old 8mm family movies in his attic.
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on December 13, 2011, 12:40 PM:
Here is a happy days episode where Postie and Ralph want to borrow Ritchie’s dads projector but a burglar has different plans. Looks like a bell & howell.
Posted by John Davis (Member # 1184) on December 13, 2011, 04:22 PM:
I'm sure they'll be watching films starring Will Heeey (Hay) - best said whilst giving the thumbs up!
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 13, 2011, 05:38 PM:
Interesting considering Ron Howard was very involved in Super-8 filmmaking in his teenage years.
-did they have those colorful plastic reels back in the 1950s?
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 13, 2011, 06:12 PM:
Jim, you can tell that's a B&H just from the case?..I'm impressed! :-)...and great clip of Donny Most reading on the toilet :-)
Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on December 14, 2011, 09:19 AM:
Super 8
Gremlins (watching Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs")
8mm
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on December 14, 2011, 12:25 PM:
Janice I had a 256 B&H years ago I assume its a B&H not sure of the model.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 16, 2011, 01:41 AM:
Here's a clip from Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994) Ace (Jim Carry) and Mrs. Finkle (Alice Drummond) as they look at football footage of Ray Finkle missing a field goal kick in the Superbowl.
Posted by Wayne Tuell (Member # 1689) on December 17, 2011, 05:54 PM:
The Amityville Horror (2005)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B24H7b18Zk&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL
The scene starts at 11 min. 23 sec. in this youtube link.
The Big Premiere OUR GANG #189 where the kids make their own movie and premiere. The gang's film-within-a-film is called "The Mysteeryus Mistry."
The Brady Bunch episode 4 season 2 The Un-Underground Movie.
Clip from the episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygoLKkLExAg&list=SL&feature=sh_e_se
add another one to the list. Watching a movie on TBS this morning I saw a group of people in a meeting room watching a S8mm film production about a train ride...it was made to look very boring...The Station Agent was the title.
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 18, 2011, 08:48 PM:
In this scene from The Waterboy (1998) Coach Klein (Henry Winkler) reacts to Bobby Boucher (Adam Sandler) walking into the room while he's looking at football films. I don't have a clue to what make and model of projector.
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Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on December 18, 2011, 09:29 PM:
I just watched the 200' B&W silent "D-Day on Mars"....
The hero of the film has a 'secret camera' placed on a bookcase (a reg 8mm) that films the villian and at the end they are watching the footage and the last shot shows the projector. It's hard to tell what it is though. Pretty cool...
Bill
Posted by Wayne Tuell (Member # 1689) on December 18, 2011, 11:12 PM:
someone refresh my memory, did they use projectors in any of the Porky's movies or just hold reels of film in a few scenes?
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on December 19, 2011, 01:20 AM:
Janice, That looks like another Bell &Howell mystery model.
Wayne, My dad took me to see Porky's when I was 7 years old! The trailer for it is available on Super 8, I wonder if the feature ever made into a Super 8 optical sound airline print?
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 19, 2011, 08:59 PM:
Inglorious Bastards (2009) is such a good movie on so many levels. No spoiler alert here just that the cinema plays a pivotal part in the film.
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on December 20, 2011, 12:45 AM:
Janice, that's a 1500-series B&H -- we used to see a lot of those green beasts at school -- which is the same one in Joerg's picture from Super 8.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 20, 2011, 03:56 PM:
Just like in "Blow Out" Brian De Palma uses a movie camera to identify key actions in Dressed To Kill (1980). Does anybody know if the projector/viewer is real or just a movie invention? I can see a "GA" in the lower left of the unit...maybe for GAF? Anyone? Anyone?
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on December 20, 2011, 05:23 PM:
Well maybe it is a motorized editor/viewer. I have one myself but I don't see any arms on that one so I'm not so sure.
Bill
Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on December 20, 2011, 05:29 PM:
I don't know about the viewer but the camera looks like it is using a SOM Berthiot Pan Cinor 30 lens. That's a D-mount lens for Regular 8mm cameras. I can't tell what type of camera it is though. I recognized the lens because I have the same one on my Bolex H8.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 21, 2011, 10:53 PM:
Looks like this may be another B & H "Green Monster" in Miracle (2004).
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on December 22, 2011, 10:01 AM:
or even a singer?
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 22, 2011, 10:45 AM:
....and I thought Singer only made sewing machines :-)
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on December 22, 2011, 02:42 PM:
In the film Strictly Ballroom we see one of the characters watching film on a projector, reminiscing of days of dancing gone by...
My VHS tape was too dark to notice what model it was...if anyone has a DVD of the film, it's about twenty minutes into the movie!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 22, 2011, 11:29 PM:
Ok Gerald here you go...I had Strickly Ballroom (1992), but I had a really tough time locating these screen captures. They were only on for a second or two. I'm still not sure what type of projector...maybe B&H?...or Singer as was mentioned in the previous movie.
The camera might be easier to identify. This shot was in the beginning sequence of the film.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on December 23, 2011, 12:52 AM:
Amazing! Much better clarity than the VHS...
The camera... another B&H?
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on December 23, 2011, 05:38 PM:
I have one of those cameras, it is a B&H 414 or 424....the Zapruder camera.
Bill
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 23, 2011, 05:48 PM:
Thanks Bill... you're right!....I should have noticed that from JFK :-)
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 27, 2011, 11:20 PM:
Quiz Show (1994) has a very interesting looking projector...nothing like I've seen before.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on December 28, 2011, 12:04 AM:
Wow...that projector is a quite a tank, I wonder what it is too.
P.S. The projectionist looks like the same one from Strictly Ballroom!
Posted by Akshay Nanjangud (Member # 2828) on December 28, 2011, 12:55 AM:
Here's an image, the best I could get, from Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. I don't think we have this.
Posted by John Davis (Member # 1184) on December 28, 2011, 08:40 AM:
I think it may be a Yell & Howl
Posted by Martin Jones (Member # 1163) on December 28, 2011, 08:53 AM:
Either the picture is reversed, or it's a left-handed one.
Martin
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 28, 2011, 02:26 PM:
Back in 2010, Gary Crwford posted about this episode of Columbo called Forgotten Lady with guest star Janet Leigh. The clip shows her splicing together some broken 16mm film.
Posted by Dino Everette (Member # 1378) on December 29, 2011, 12:46 AM:
I'm almost embarrassed to state this but my band has the closing song in a current D-grade horror movie called CHILLERAMAthat revolves around the closing of a drive-in movie theatre and quite a few scenes not only involve the projectors but lamenting about the physicality of film.
Also there is an episode of a Horror anthology TV show that revolved around a horror film that makes people murderously mad and one guy threads his own intestines into the projector if i remember.
Also (this may have been mentioned already, but the main characters' buddy in A LITTLE ROMANCE has access to the booth of a porno theatre...
Posted by Mark Williams (Member # 794) on December 29, 2011, 05:13 AM:
I actualy thought CHILLERAMA was ok,I thought the Wadzilla episode was very funny but on the whole it was a very mixed bag indeed.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 29, 2011, 01:53 PM:
Remember The Titans (2000) starring Denzel Washington was based on a true story. This is a scene where Denzel is watching football films just before a rock or brick is thrown through his window.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on December 29, 2011, 03:08 PM:
Dino's latest post made me remember about the beginning of True Romance, where Clarance is watching a martial arts film in a theater to celebrate his birthday. Again, I don't think you see a projector but, only it's light and some of the film on the screen.
From last night, here are a few films that feature more imaginary projectors,where you don't quite see them but, you know they are there. In The Magic Lantern (1903) from Georges Méliès, in this brief "trick film" we see two clowns assemble an enormous magic lantern which first projects moving images, then emits dancing girls:
In Walt Disney's Puss in Boots (1922) A boy falls in love with a princess and after seeing a Rudolpho Valensino movie at the local theater, his cat has the idea that he could try impressing the king as bullfighter, to win his daughters hand. Here they are watching the fake movie "Throwing the Bull":
And finally, we get a good glimpse into the world of silent film and it's production with A Tour of the Thomas Ince Studio (1924). A behind-the-scenes look at Thomas H. Ince Studios in Culver City, California, here we see them splicing film together ready to screen rushes for review:
P.S. Janet Leigh working those rewinds = Awesome.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 30, 2011, 06:49 PM:
Yes Gerald, Janet Leigh looks like a pro. However, it was her film splicing that tipped Columbo off and pointed her as the guilty party ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
This next movie The Best of Times (1986) was one of my two sons' favorite 80's movies. It starred Robin Williams and Kurt Russell who try and re-create the historical "big game" they lost in high school. It was filmed in the small town of Taft, California. Several of my Bay Area friends came from Taft.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 31, 2011, 11:14 PM:
I thought I'd add one more movie to this thread before 2012 arrives...at least it's not yet New Year's in California at the time of this posting.
Here is some screen captures of projectors in The China Syndrome (1979).
Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on January 01, 2012, 09:45 AM:
Janice,
That's terrific. Love those upright Moviolas!
Doug
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 01, 2012, 12:52 PM:
Yes...Doug. They look pretty cool. I've never actually seen one. I'm guessing they work like a giant viewer/editor. In this case they were using it in a newsroom to screen footage ...Do you know any other ways moviolas were used?
Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on January 01, 2012, 07:23 PM:
Janice,
The upright Moviolas (and later flatbed versions) were used to edit films. Picture (either 35mm or 16mm) would run on the right side and mag stock (with the transferred production audio) would run on the left. The editor would find the picture frame where the two hinged sticks of the clapboard came together, then match it up with the corresponding audio. Both tracks would then be interlocked and could be played in sync.
The one used in The China Syndrome would be a 16mm optical sound model, since that was the format for TV news back in the day.
Doug
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 05, 2012, 01:28 AM:
Doug, thank you for the info...that's why I like hanging around this forum. I learn so much.
Here is a Burt Reynolds classic The Longest Yard (1974). The inmates are watching film in preparation for the up-coming prison inmates vs. the guards football game.
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on January 05, 2012, 11:37 AM:
here is another projector i spotted while watching cooltv's A-Z countdown between christmas and new years it is sade's smooth operator i believe it is a gs1200
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 05, 2012, 10:51 PM:
Being that one of my past hobbies was flying and one of my current hobbies is film, I found the depiction of Howard Hughes' career in The Aviator (2004) very intriguing. It seemed like over a third of the movie was filmed in the screening room.
Posted by Grant Fitzgerald (Member # 2796) on January 06, 2012, 09:31 AM:
Having finished watching Lost a couple of months ago, before I started collecting Super 8, I thought back and remembered that the characters on Lost used a film projector to watch an instructional video. Here are some photos taken off Netflix.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 06, 2012, 03:00 PM:
Grant...I had some similar clips captured of this LOST episode from season two. I thought I had already posted them...but guess not. These might be a little clearer.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 06, 2012, 11:02 PM:
Let's not forget Fight Club (1999) starring Edward Norton and Brad Pitt.
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Posted by Grant Fitzgerald (Member # 2796) on January 07, 2012, 06:01 AM:
You mean Edward Norton!
Janice: You may have posted it. It seems that your colors are allot brighter but not color corrected accurately. Because they are in a dark room at this point, the hatch is dark, plus they are watching a projected film.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on January 07, 2012, 11:10 AM:
Smile is a 1975 film directed by Michael Ritchie, about a beauty pageant in Santa Rosa, California. The film is a satirical comedy-drama focusing on small-town America and its peculiarities, preoccupations, and hypocrisies.
Here are some screen-shots of the contestants watching a promotional film about themselves going through rehearsals. The print was pink with little color remaining, still, very entertaining...
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 07, 2012, 01:38 PM:
It's always fun to watch films shot locally. Nice one Gerald.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 07, 2012, 06:30 PM:
I'm heading out to Boston to visit with my grandkids for a couple of weeks. So this will be the last "projector" clip I'll post for awhile.
This is from Yanks (1979) starring a very young Richard Gere. In looking at the lower picture...Is that a guy playing an organ?
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on January 08, 2012, 12:32 AM:
I've never seen Fight Club, Janice, but I've been told that the projection booth shown in your photos is the authentic booth at the 1931 Los Angeles Theater (see Wikipedia or the Los Angeles Conservancy's writeup).
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 08, 2012, 10:28 AM:
That's really interesting Bill. I didn't know that. As violent as a lot of the scenes were in Fight Club , this one was one of the more humorous. From the footage (I didn't post here), it looked like Brad Pitt was editing a porn flick .., and Edward Norton's voice-over explains that you can tell when a reel is changed by the circle in the upper right corner of the screen... called a cigarette burn.
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 20, 2012, 08:04 PM:
Well...I'm back from my excellent adventure to Boston. I solo took care of my three grandsons ages 6,4 and 1 for three days while their mom and dad were out of town. It was a blast!
Anyway I see this thread has been quiet in my absence....so I'm back looking in my movie archives. Here is a projector room scene from Mel Brooks Silent Movie (1976). Marty Feldman gets wrapped up in the film and becomes a human movie reel as he spins around feeding the film into the large 35mm projector.
Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on January 20, 2012, 08:26 PM:
Done as only Marty Feldman can do.
Great to have you back Janice. Your input is always most enjoyable. BTW I send you a PM.
Pat
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 21, 2012, 11:47 PM:
Thanks Pat...it's good to be back.
This next movie is Get Carter (1971) starring Michael Caine and Britt Ekland. My only comment for this scene is....Doesn't everybody have a film projector conveniently positioned right next to their bed? :-)
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 26, 2012, 12:20 AM:
The projectionist here gets attacked by a lobster-like monster in The Tingler (1958) starring Vincent Price.
Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on January 26, 2012, 04:24 AM:
Cat & the canary 1979 on BBC1 this Sat.Sunday.
Old tv trailer: http://youtu.be/NSvfNZtR8ds
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 26, 2012, 11:47 AM:
I loved that trailer Lee.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on January 26, 2012, 12:06 PM:
Good finds, Janice this is my favorite thread!
I really love Tol'able David, I have a super 8 print...
I also have a projector next to my bed (in a way)...I was going to take a screen shot of me watching 'Sleuth' with Michael Cain next to the projector. Then, got way to embarrassed to post a picture like that here.
Great to have you back!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 26, 2012, 01:13 PM:
Hey Gerald...I think a picture of a projector next to your bed would be a hoot! If you ever get up the nerve...it would be a steller post
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on January 26, 2012, 07:09 PM:
How about the THREE'S COMPANY episode "Home Movies" from season two....
Chrissy dating a film buff, gets a super 8 camera from her parents, shoots footage aound the apartment, shows it on a black ELMO ST, Larry thinks he bought a 'blue' movie and everyone's ready to watch it and it turns out to be a Woody Woodpecker cartoon!
Bill
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 26, 2012, 09:40 PM:
Bill...that episode was hysterical.
Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on January 27, 2012, 11:21 AM:
In Rebecca Lawrence Olivier is showing home movies to his wife Joan Fontaine. The projector is prominently featured as Olivier threads it up. Very nice looking machine - looks like an old 16mm Bell and Howell Filmo silent.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on January 27, 2012, 03:26 PM:
Bill, Janice -- LOL
Three's Company was one of the best shows!
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on January 27, 2012, 04:50 PM:
Thanks Janice for posting the pics! I love that show!
Bill
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 28, 2012, 11:34 PM:
@Bill...my pleasure. I love hunting down these scenes.
@Paul...Rebecca (1940) is also a nice find. Here's the scene you described.
Posted by Allan Broadfield (Member # 2298) on January 29, 2012, 05:16 AM:
Does anyone know anything about the device used by the Wilfred Hyde White character in 'The cat and the canary' (1978) to show him reading out his will, twenty years after his death?
I think the makers of this film used some artistic licence as the projector runs through the potential inheritors entire supper, even though it appears to be simply a projector coupled to a cylinder player. It does, however, look similar to some old attempts at home 'talkie' machines I have seen pictures of in the past.
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 29, 2012, 10:50 PM:
Allan...I really liked this quirky movie... The Cat and the Canary (1978)...especially Wilfrid Hyde White who plays Cyrus West. His monologue in the will-reading scene is priceless. I think the director just took creative license with the length of the projection...there's not enough film to run as long as the scene did.
Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on January 30, 2012, 07:44 AM:
This film must hold the record for the longest a projector is seen in one film and also most of the film is about the film. Think I got that right?
A clip.. http://youtu.be/Pa9PeGH5eq0
Allan. I think the projector is a Kodascope and these had a 400ft max spool capacity.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 30, 2012, 10:07 PM:
In The Blob (1958) there's no projector shown...but we can't forget the "oozing goo" in this theatre scene.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on January 31, 2012, 12:18 AM:
At the beginning of The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967) a very funny Italian style comedy, we have the great Vittorio Gassman, a business man (and film producer) who is seen in his own film and later a screening room before he is lured into a tryst with Ann-Margret.
Posted by Allan Broadfield (Member # 2298) on January 31, 2012, 07:00 PM:
Thanks for the info and the great pictures, Janice and Lee!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 01, 2012, 05:10 PM:
Here are captures from The Omen: The Final Conflict (1981) where Damian expresses his dislike for the proposed company promotional commercial.
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Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on February 02, 2012, 05:30 PM:
Hi friends, a quick timeout here to show you some discoveries from our holiday viewing!
First of all, from the vintage 1954 classic, "Them," comes Dr. Harold Medford about to instruct Washington chiefs of staff on the ways of ants -- giant mutant ones or otherwise -- by breaking out a classroom film:
I'm guessing (seeing as the view is limited) that it's a Kodak?
This movie has great B&W lighting and photography and the DVD looks great. Dr. Medford narrates his movie:
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on February 02, 2012, 05:49 PM:
Bill...maybe it's an RCA...judging by the position of the reels.
Bill
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 02, 2012, 07:19 PM:
I remember that movie really frightened me as a kid. A lot of good stars...James Whitmore...James Arness...Fess Parker.
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on February 02, 2012, 08:43 PM:
Scared my wife as a kid too, but I'd never seen it until now!
OK, even better for the historical value is the 1924 Buster Keaton classic, Sherlock Jr. found at our local library, on a wonderful double-bill Kino DVD with a nice music track. In it Keaton plays an inept wannbe private investigator whose real job is as a projectionist. So we get to see a real, state-of-the-art 1924 projection booth in action, complete with 1000' 35mm reels and arc lighting -- and don't miss the reel rack on the left side, or the metal fire door and window shutters in case the film goes up in flames:
And a fun view of the theater itself, most notably that the best seats are lost to the center aisle, and proof again that silent movies weren't silent, seeing there were four musicians down front:
The plot is a little involved, but all you need to know here is that he starts a reel...
...then promptly falls asleep while sitting on the stool. Through double exposure we see him leave the booth in his dream...
...and then walk right up the aisle and into the picture. The physical comedy that ensues is cute as he reacts to the changing scenes of a travelogue, and the special effects are pretty convincing too. But then he gets caught up in a mystery. For a long time. Like a half hour. Way longer than the reel should've lasted. We were waiting for him to get busted for letting the film run off, but we never see him load the other projector or change over!
At the movies' conclusion, we see into a booth window the now wakened Sherlock looking at the action on the screen -- and mimicing it -- while the unvented arclamp housing is smoking away:
Also great fun in this movie to see some Los Angeles-area neighborhoods as they looked in 1924!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 03, 2012, 12:08 AM:
That was fantastic Bill! Thanks for the synopsis of the scenes...your observations were great. I don't usually think of special effects in old movies this old...so to see the double exposure effect was amazing.
Posted by Martin Davey (Member # 2841) on February 03, 2012, 07:48 AM:
Here are some grabs from a Monty Python episode from 1970. The sketch is the famous "ministry of silly walks".
I think it is a eumig P8?. It is in operation,backwards. At the end of the sketch it is thrown off the screen. I remember this action from the reruns in the 70's, being shocked by the treatment of the machine, and wanting to own a projector myself!
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on February 03, 2012, 12:35 PM:
Destruction of a good projector! There should be a law against that!
Janice, the special effects in "Sherlock Jr" ranged from the conventional (and my image above fits into that category, though it was extremely well executed) to some "how did they do that" moments. I don't have much silent movie knowledge, but of anything I've ever watched from the 20s or 30s, nothing else compares to "Sherlock" for its cleverness of technique.
I'd be interested if our resident early film expert, Dino, would be willing to weigh in on this one, with his valuable knowledge?
Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on February 03, 2012, 12:53 PM:
That looks like a Eumig P8. It probrbly won't break when he throws it. They were heavy and well made. All metal. They were as heavy as my 2585 16mm.
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on February 05, 2012, 12:06 AM:
THAT'S pretty heavy!
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on February 05, 2012, 01:58 AM:
Pat I can vouch for that, the little Eumig P8 went flying during the past shakes "cant remember which one" and still goes, not a mark on it.
Bill
Buster Keaton sleaping in the projection box made me I remember doing the same thing and with the noise of the Air Condition unit made me dream that I was on a 747 on my way to some Pacific Island ....then I woke up ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
...some things dont change.
Graham.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 06, 2012, 03:02 PM:
The lovable Might Joe Young (1949)...was more like the Big Foot character Harry in the movie Harry and the Henderson's than the ape in King Kong... This scene at the end of the film has Joe eating a banana and then giving a playful wave back to the camera.
Any guesses on the projector?
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Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on February 06, 2012, 05:47 PM:
Again, looking at the position of the reels it looks like an RCA.
Bill
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 07, 2012, 09:34 PM:
Paris, Texas (1984) is an intriquing story about Travis a man with amnesia played by Harry Dean Stanton. Travis had been missing for 4 years and then suddenly appears one day walking out from the dessert. Travis's brother Walt played by Dean Stockwell tries to find out why his brother disappeared. Walt decides that showing Travis some old home movies of Travis with his wife and young son spending a day at the beach might spark some memories.
Projector?
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 11, 2012, 03:50 AM:
I'm not sure if this movie has been mentioned before...but Peter O'Toole was in true form as the dissolute matinee idol in My Favorite Year (1982).
BTW...That projector looks more like a tank....what is it?
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 12, 2012, 01:20 PM:
In Desperately Seeking Susan (1985) Aidan Quinn discovers his 35mm film strung out on the floor...and at the end of the movie the projector starts burning the film after Quinn kisses Rosanna Arquette in the projection booth. This movie also stars Madonna.
...also notice the small movie poster for "Pattern for Plunder".
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Posted by Allan Broadfield (Member # 2298) on February 12, 2012, 04:35 PM:
Janice, that looks like a 16mm Ampro. Used to have one but regrettably sold it during a mad clear out.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 13, 2012, 11:52 PM:
Much like The Cat and the Canary, Brewster's Millions (1985) starts out with a message from the grave by Hume Cronyn who plays the deceased great-uncle of Brewster played by Richard Prior. Brewster is presented with an offer he can't refuse.
The only shot of the projector is an extreme close-up. This looks more like something you would see in a planetarium.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 14, 2012, 10:58 PM:
Awakenings (1990) was directed by Penny Marshall. It was nominated for three Oscars including Best Picture and Robert De Niro for Best Actor. Based on true events, De Niro plays Leonard Lowe a victim of an encephalitis epidemic as a child that has left him and a group of others like him in a catatonic state for decades. Robin Williams plays Dr. Malcom Sayer the doctor who administers an experimental drug that for a short time revives Leonard and the others.
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on February 15, 2012, 11:25 AM:
In a richard marx video "should have known better" his girlfriend is shown dancing in front of the screen when he decides to join in the loving gets out of hand and the screen comes down and the projector crashes to the floor man what a waste.
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 15, 2012, 11:42 PM:
Capricorn One (1977) always seemed like a made-for-TV movie to me with such actors as Elliott Gould, James Brolin and Brenda Vaccaro...and let's not forget O.J. Simpson (way before he became public enemy number one.) This movie is about NASA staging a major hoax and almost getting away with it.
The vacation home movies Brenda Vaccaro shows Elliot Gould is a key element in revealing the truth.
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 17, 2012, 01:54 AM:
Hellzapoppin' (1941) was a film adaption of the very successful Broadway show of the same name. Shemp Howard (one of the Three Stooges) begins the movie as the projectionist of a cinema. This film has some great visual humor.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 18, 2012, 12:32 AM:
Super 8 (2011) was written and directed by J.J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg. It stars Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights TV series). The story takes place in the summer of 1979 when a group of young friends witness a train crash while filming their own movie. Subsequent to the crash they decide to investigate several unexplained events taking place in their town.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 19, 2012, 01:37 AM:
The storyline for Night of the Comet (1984) has a comet crashing into Earth and pretty much wiping out every living thing...except for two teenage girls...a group of underground dwellers...and a handfull of zombies. The clips are from a scene just before the comet hits...where one of the soon-to-be surviving girls meets up with a guy who works as a projectionist at the movie theater.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on February 19, 2012, 02:13 AM:
Janice,
You're on a roll!
Great pictures and findings...
I've been to the El Rey theater before as seen on "Night of the Comet" to see bands though, no movies were playing but, I did see many movie stars there.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 19, 2012, 03:26 AM:
Gerald...I'll keep going until I run out of movies.
I drove by the el Rey when I visited my son in January. He's an actor living in Hollywood very close to the theater. I'm not sure if he's ever gone there to see a movie, but he see's lot's of movie stars
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Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on February 20, 2012, 08:17 AM:
In this classic batman episode frank gorshin plays the riddler is the director and has fun operating the projector as well.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 20, 2012, 12:38 PM:
This is great Jim...you always find such great TV moments.
BTW...I think I'm seeing double...Looks like the Batman pics replaced the pics in your previous Richard Marx post.
Posted by Allan Broadfield (Member # 2298) on February 20, 2012, 02:09 PM:
Hi Janice, the Brewster's Millions pic looks like a 35mm proj. backed by a carbon arc. But the pic looks reversed.Allan.
Posted by Gerald Santana (Member # 2362) on February 20, 2012, 03:03 PM:
Holy Double Exposure Jim, Janice is right...what happened to Richard Marx?
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on February 21, 2012, 11:31 AM:
Thanks Janice, when i capture the screen caps I did not change the name of the pictures so they must have over ridden the previous I just happen to dvr that episode saturday night not knowing it was on what luck huh? i have eliminated the pics for now.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 22, 2012, 01:42 AM:
I had to find some way to include one of my all time favorite movies and although there are no visable projectors...there are movie cameras :-) Un Homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman) (1966). I have both the French and the English dubbed version...but I prefer it in French. Claude Lelouch directed this beautiful film that tells more with actions and thoughts then dialogue as scenes switch back a forth from color to black & white. It stars Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Pierre Barouh. Ya-ba-da-ba-da!
Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on February 22, 2012, 02:54 AM:
Hi,
in the movie "Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire" (1972, English title: "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe") Bernard Blier enters a "fnac"-store and passes shelves with Double8-/Super8-cameras... however I haven't seen any projectors. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=HVwHg6wjFvc go to 6min 47s )
Jörg
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 23, 2012, 01:59 AM:
In Targets (1968) Boris Karloff comes to the rescue when a sniper starts shooting people in a drive-in movie.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 24, 2012, 12:47 AM:
In Death Ship (1980) this humongous projector just happens to be all setup just waiting for someone to wander in to find it... and then know exactly the switch to flip to turn it on I'm impressed...but that's about all that impressed me with this movie. George Kennedy as a Nazi ship captain?....I don't think so.
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Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on February 26, 2012, 07:04 AM:
Projectors were used also in "THE IPCRESS FILE" with Michael
Caine,"FATHOM" with Raquel Welch,"THE WRONG ARM OF THE LAW"with Peter Sellers, Bell & Howells all, plus Billy Cristal using a little 8mm job in "Memories of Me."
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 26, 2012, 10:35 AM:
Outstanding Hugh...finding screen shots for these movies will keep me busy for awhile
Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on February 26, 2012, 02:11 PM:
Thankyou Janice, I nearly forgot the film"THE MAGIC BOX" with
Robert Donat.I'm sorry I can't help with screen shots as I don't
possess a digital camera,maybe someday.
Posted by Mitchell Dvoskin (Member # 1183) on February 26, 2012, 06:40 PM:
The Stunt Man (1980) has several scenes with a 35mm portable projector being used to screen dailies at the hotel they are filming the movie within the movie.
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on February 26, 2012, 09:32 PM:
Derann released "Smarty Cat" years ago Its the only Tom and Jerry I can think of that has a projector in it. The Super8 print is excellent "really nice colour" and is well worth looking out for.
I dont have any Super8mm screen shots, but here are a couple from the net
Graham.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 26, 2012, 11:00 PM:
Nice one Graham!
Now...is that a Keystone or a Dejur?
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 27, 2012, 02:56 PM:
Very predictable...but always fun to watch Burt Reynolds as the aging stunt man in Hooper (1978)
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on February 29, 2012, 02:23 AM:
My guess its a Keystone could be wrong though.
Here is another from Super8 The Movie "from the making of". It was neat to watch the kids who were acting in this film showing a real interest in film stuff.
The first thing that came to mind when watching this scene was....worm gear ...I guess its been replaced.
Graham.
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on February 29, 2012, 11:24 AM:
...or at least it didn't shatter while shooting their movie!
Would one of the moderators be willing to make an index at the top of this thread? There are so many entries now that it's getting tough to remember what's here and what's not. A most impressive effort!
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on February 29, 2012, 11:54 AM:
here is an episode of the odd couple in which felix follows oscar around filming him.
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on February 29, 2012, 12:39 PM:
Oh, Yes!
I remember what Oscar said when Felix told him he was going to make a film:
"You're a cleany. Maybe you're a Fellini!"
Oscar introduces Felix to one of his sleazy friends who is also a low budget filmmaker.
They discuss collaborating:
Felix: My film is 16mm.
Phil: Mine is Super-8. We'll blow it up!
Only on set when the actors' clothes start flying does Felix realize he's now making low budget porn.
"CUT!!"
Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on February 29, 2012, 08:05 PM:
Looks like a Bell & Howell green machine
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on February 29, 2012, 09:44 PM:
Pat
I should have mentioned that when I mentioned "Keystone" it was a reply to Janice from the last page where she asks the question "Keystone or a Dejur" sorry about that, my fault.
Any ideas though
Graham.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 01, 2012, 12:04 AM:
Bell & Howell seems to be the projector of choice in the majority of movies. You get a nice view of a B&H next to Racquel Welch who plays a U.S. team skydiver in Fathom (1967). The lower clip shows her watching a film provided by a Western agency who want to use her skydiving skills for a secret mission.
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 04, 2012, 07:28 PM:
I'm not sure why so many Sci-Fi movies are about some catostrophic event wiping out the entire human race. There always seems to be a few normal survivors and then a handful of deformed or psychotic survivors that are out to get rid of the normal ones In The Omega Man (1971) Charlton Heston is the lone normal survivor. The clips below show him starting up a huge projector to watch a film about Woodstock It's hard for me to imagine Charlton Heston even being remotely interested in Woodstock.
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Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on March 04, 2012, 08:42 PM:
It was the only thing playing....
Bill
Posted by David Kilderry (Member # 549) on March 04, 2012, 11:27 PM:
Raquel, Odd Couple and Super 8 shot all show the same seies Bell And Howell 16mm projectors.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 05, 2012, 12:15 AM:
quote:
It was the only thing playing....
Good Point Bill
...AND David...I'm giving B&H projectors the Oscar in the life-time achievement category for most appearances
Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on March 06, 2012, 06:44 AM:
Whitechapel Episode 5
Last night on ITV 1.
www.itv.com/itvplayer/video/?Filter=310915
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 06, 2012, 06:39 PM:
Lee...your link is "UK Only"
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 07, 2012, 07:39 PM:
Although Sunset Blvd. (1950) is a fictional story...it's not that far from depicting similar real-life dramas having occured in Hollywood over the years. William Holden plays a second-rate screenwriter and Gloria Swanson a former silent-film star.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 09, 2012, 12:30 AM:
Peter O'toole plays a movie director and Steve Railsback a fugitive turned stunt man in The Stunt Man (1980)
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 09, 2012, 11:08 PM:
Ok...so there's no actual projector shown...but in this scene from Coneheads (1993) is a montage of simulated 8mm home movies taken after Beldar (Dan Aykroyd) and his wife Prymatt (Jane Curtain) have a daughter. The whole scene is done to the song Kodachrome by Simon & Garfunkel. My grandsons love this movie....and me too!
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Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on March 10, 2012, 05:41 AM:
The latest episode of the tv-series Grimm, ep 13 shown march 2 in US, ended with the main caracter watching a newsreel of Hitler on a handcranked 35MM projector.
(This series is shown here in Sweden only six days after US)
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 13, 2012, 02:01 PM:
Memories of Me (1988) stars Billy Crystal, Alan King and Jo Beth Williams. The movie they are watching is being projected on a refrigerator door.
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 15, 2012, 12:17 AM:
Peter Sellers uses a hidden movie camera to capture the combination to a safe in Wrong Arm of the Law (1963).
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 16, 2012, 10:56 PM:
Michael Caine plays a British agent in The Ipcress File (1965). A B&H projector is used to show surveillance footage during an agent briefing session.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 19, 2012, 07:55 PM:
I hadn't watched this movie in a long time...I had forgotten how funny Bachelor Party (1984) was. The projector is seen when Adrian Zmed brings a "spicy" movie to get the party started. Tom Hanks is among the eager watchers.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 21, 2012, 12:10 AM:
OOppps!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 21, 2012, 12:13 AM:
Gomez and Uncle Fester enjoy watching old home movies of when they were kids in The Addams Family (1991).
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 22, 2012, 09:42 PM:
Let's just say this was the last time this teacher ever showed a movie in class ... Gremlins (1984).
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 28, 2012, 10:21 PM:
Nazi officers watch a propaganda film about living conditions in the concentration camps in The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008).
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on March 30, 2012, 12:40 PM:
Even on south park they use projectors
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 30, 2012, 01:23 PM:
LOL...Love it!
Posted by Akshay Nanjangud (Member # 2828) on March 30, 2012, 06:19 PM:
I don't think we have this one. It's from the pilot of How I Met Your Mother. I wasn't enjoying the episode until I saw this projector. I promptly left the pilot unfinished and turned to this thread. This projector doesn't look like anything I've seen. The reels look 8mm, to my amateur eye, and the film even appears threaded. Maybe the bulb blew in the middle of a screening and the projector was forgotten.
Posted by Mikael Barnard (Member # 1637) on March 30, 2012, 06:41 PM:
It's an Ampro Stylist, a 16mm projector (although to be fair I can see why you might have thought 8mm, the screengrab does make them look a little flat. Maybe I should stop trying to lose weight and try and become a TV star instead! )
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 02, 2012, 02:09 AM:
If you look very carefully...you can make out a projector in the smoky image from the opening credits of The Illusionist (2006).
Posted by John Davis (Member # 1184) on April 02, 2012, 12:56 PM:
'Bachelor Party' was always a favourite of mine during my crass youth and Janice's post shows a quite full reel so it came as a bit of a surprise to the boys to find that the girlfriends had cut the middle out of the film so there were no rude bits and the film bizarrely ran for about a minute!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 04, 2012, 11:08 PM:
In this scene from The Cider House Rules (1999) Michael Caine and Tobey McGuire have to repair the film after it breaks during a showing of King Kong. Is that an Ampro?
Posted by Akshay Nanjangud (Member # 2828) on April 05, 2012, 12:53 AM:
Janice, I don't really know you but let me play Charlie Chan a bit here. You indulge in three activities extensively:
1. repair projectors (evident on many threads),
2. spot them in films (this thread), and
3. laugh (your profile pic).
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 05, 2012, 10:52 AM:
Well Charlie...whoops! I mean Akshay pretty close. I think I would put laugh at the top of the list though and for clarification, I only TRY to repair projectors Don't leave out dabbling in telecine and posting relatively boring videos on YouTube...although my "Oven Roasted Potatoes and Carrots" vid has over 1400 hits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewxjf5aARGk&list=UUzhVuBJou11ziWdERi0ZGuQ&index=2 3&feature=plcp and my "Rolling Title Track Matte Tutorial" over 3500 hits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCUfCRDTENs&list=UUzhVuBJou11ziWdERi0ZGuQ&index=3 1&feature=plcp
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Posted by Akshay Nanjangud (Member # 2828) on April 05, 2012, 06:34 PM:
Diverse videos, Janice. Nice.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 09, 2012, 10:59 PM:
Christoper Walken uses a film projector to simulate a TV set in Blast from the Past (1999)
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 11, 2012, 03:53 PM:
In The Player (1992) Tim Robbins meets up with Vincent D'Onoforio (Law and Order: Criminal Intent) in a movie theater just before Vincent's character meets an untimely death.
Posted by Eric Ray (Member # 3000) on April 12, 2012, 10:29 PM:
Here is a projector used in an Ellery Queen TV episode The Adventure of Veronica's Veils.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 13, 2012, 11:56 AM:
Nice one Eric...I haven't seen that series in years
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on April 13, 2012, 03:44 PM:
Here is an index of most everything discussed or pictured so far in this thread, giving the page number of this thread for each title. Wish it could be post number 1! But then that would throw off the index! Sorry, can't keep the tabbing in the post here, so the page numbers are spaced just after the title listing.
POSTS WITH PHOTOS
8mm 6
Ace Venture: Pet Detective 6
Abominable Dr. Phibes 2
Absence of Malice 6
Addams Family, The (1991) 11
Aviator, The 8
Awakenings (1990) 10
Bachelor Party (1984) 11
Batman (TV) 10
Best of Times (1986) 7
Big Time Operators 3
Billy Jack 5
Blast from the Past 12
Blob, The 9
Blow Out 5
Boy in the Striped Pajamas, The 11
Boy Who Could Fly 4
Brewster’s Millions 10
Butterfly Effect, The 5
Capricorn One 10
Cat and Canary (1978) 9
Cat from Outer Space 4
China Syndrome, The 7
Chive prop warehouse in Hollywood 5
Cider House Rules, The 12
Cinema Paradiso 3
Clockwork Orange, A 3
Columbo “Forgotten Lady” 7
Coming Home 4
Coneheads 11
Days of Thrills and Laughter 6
Death Ship (1980) 10
Desperately Seeking Susan 9
Dodgeball 5
Dressed to Kill 7
Ellery Queen “Adventure of Veronica’s Veils” 12
Enter the Dragon 1
Fathom (1967) 11
Fight Club (1999) 8
Get Carter 8
Gilligan’s Island “Castaway Pictures Presents” 3
Gremlins (1984) 6, 11
Gus 6
Happy Days (TV) 6
Heaven Can Wait 5
Hellzapoppin’ 10
Hooper (1978) 10
How I Met Your Mother (TV pilot) 12
I Lost in Jeopardy (video) 3
Illusionist, The (2006) 12
Inglorious Basterds 6
Ipcress File, The 11
Italian Job, The (1969) 5
JFK (1991) 4
Last Action Hero 3
Last Picture Show 6
Leave it To Beaver 4
Longest Yard, The 8
Looking Glass War 3
Lost (season 2) 8
Love and Bullets 2
M*A*S*H (TV) 4
Magic Lantern (1903) 7
Man and a Woman, A 10
Memories of Me 11
Miracle (2004) 7
Mighty Joe Young (1949) 9
Monty Python “Ministry of Silly Walks” 9
Moonlighting (season 2) 4
Mr. Bill 1
My Favorite Year 9
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 6
Night of the Comet (1984) 10
Odd Couple (TV) 11
Omega Man, The 11
Omen: The Final Conflict (1981) 9
Paris, Texas 9
Partridge Family (TV) 5
Pee Wee’s Playhouse “King of Cartoons” 6
Play it Again, Sam 3
Player, The (1992) 12
Puss in Boots (1922) 7
Python (John Cleese) 1
Quiz Show 7
Rebecca 9
Remember the Titans 7
Shawshank Redemption 3
Sherlock, Jr. 9
Silent Movie 8
Smile (1975) 8
Smarty Cat (Tom & Jerry) 10
“Smooth Operator” (Sade) (video) 8
South Park (TV) 12
Starman 4
Stealing Home 5
Stranger, The 4
Strictly Ballroom 7
Stunt Man, The 11
Sunset Boulevard 11
Super 8 6, 10, 11
Take the Money and Run 4
Targets (1968) 10
Them (1954) 9
Three’s Company “Home Movies” (1978) 8
Tiger and the Pussycat (1967) 9
Tingler, The (1958) 8
Tour of the Thomas Ince Studio (1924) 7
Twilight Zone “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” 4
Waterboy, The 6
Wrong Arm of the Law 11
Yanks (1979) 8
MENTIONS
Absence of Malice 1
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective 1
Amityville Horror 6
Artist, The 5
Backwash (Chapt. 9) 3
Blob, The 2, 3
Blow Out 1
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice 2
Boy in the Striped Pajamas 4
Boy Who Could Fly 2
Brady Bunch “The Un-Underground Movie” 6
Butterfly Effect 2
Candidate, The 3
Capricorn One 1
Cat and Canary (1978) 3
Chillerama 7
China Syndrome 1
Christmas Vacation 3
Cider House Rules 1
Clash by Night 2
College Confidential 2
Columbo “Make Me a Perfect Murder” 3
Criminal Minds 1
CSI New York 1
D-Day on Mars 6
Death Ship 1
Demons (Argento) 4
Desperately Seeking Susan 1
Dillinger Is Dead 2
Dodgeball 1
Dressed to Kill 1
Ex Mrs. Bradford, The 2
Evita 2
Friday the 13th: the Final Chapter 3
Fathom (Raquel Welch) 10
Full Moon in Blue Water 2
Gigantis the Fire Monster 2
Gremlins 1
Grimm, episode 13 11
Haven 2
Heaven Can Wait 2
Hellzapoppin’ 3
Here’s Your Life (Swedish) 3
Hooper 1
How I Met Your Mother (C4) 1
Hugo (2011) 5
Inglorious Basterds 3
Ipcress File, The 10
Italian Job, The (1969) 1
LA Confidential 1
Longest Yard, The 2
Lost (season 2) 1
Lost Highway 1
Magic Box, The (Robert Donat) 10
Manhunter 1
Memories of Me 2, 10
Mighty Joe Young 2
Night of the Comet 3
Omega Man 1
Omen 3 2
Our Gang “Big Premiere” 6
On the Beat 2
Paris, Texas 2
Quartermass Experiment 2
Quiz Show 2
Rebecca 1, 8
Ruby 2
Sherlock, Jr. (Keaton) 3
Silent Movie (Brooks) 3
Slumdog Millionaire 1
Starman 1
Station Agent, The 6
Strictly Ballroom 7
Stunt Man, The (1980) 10
Super 8 3
Sunset Boulevard 1
Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, The (1972) 10
Targets 3
Terror (1978) 2
Three’s Company “Home Movies” (1978) 8
Tingler, The 2
That Certain Summer (Hal Holbrook) 2
Twilight Zone “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” 1
Waterboy, The 1
Whitechapel, episode 5 11
Wombles, The “Film Show” (1975) 5
World’s Fastest Indian 1
Wrong Arm of the Law 10
X-Files “Sunshine Days” 2
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 13, 2012, 03:47 PM:
WOW! Bill you have been busy...nice job!
Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on April 13, 2012, 10:31 PM:
Bill,
Just terrific. Thanks!
Doug
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 17, 2012, 09:36 PM:
This capture is from The Cat From Outer Space (1978). The scene was very dark I tried lightening it.. .but still can't see the projector.
Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on April 18, 2012, 02:20 AM:
Maybe it's a rear-projection so that the projector is hidden behind the screen?
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 18, 2012, 09:30 PM:
Hugo (2011) was my favorite movie from last year. I saw it originally in 3D and the experience was great, but I have to say it holds up just as well in 2D. I hope this becomes a "classic."
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on April 28, 2012, 05:55 PM:
I just watched the season 4 episode of THE FLINTSTONES called "Reel Trouble"
It's great...it is me all the way! Fred trades in his snapshot camera for a movie camera and films everything.....and bores everyone with his home movie shows! Lot's of shots of Fred with his stone-age projector.....
Bill
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 29, 2012, 01:59 AM:
Good one Bill!...and here's some screen caps of that episode.
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on April 29, 2012, 09:54 AM:
And don't forget that the recent 2011 "The Muppets" movie begins with a faux home movie, with flicker, dust, scratches, and edge fall-off like it's on a screen. But no projector is shown, shame on them in such a nostalgic movie!
Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on April 29, 2012, 01:26 PM:
What projector is Fred using?
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 29, 2012, 01:32 PM:
I was thinking the same thing Bryan....maybe a DINO-MO ...with a modified light source
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 29, 2012, 04:30 PM:
Cinema Paradiso (1988) is a Oscar winning Italian film that is a must-see for any film enthusiast. This movie is entirely centered around movies and there are images of projectors and screenings throughout. It's a wonderful story.
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on April 30, 2012, 09:55 AM:
Thanks Janice! I knew you would come through with great screen shots! I'm glad you put them up there because that projector is great.
Bill
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 30, 2012, 02:22 PM:
It's always fun to see vintage film equipment show up in an animated feature. In A Monster in Paris (2011) the timeline is 1910...however, the animation...the dialogue...and the songs are very contemporary. The English version I have features the voices of Bob Balaban, Catherine O'Hara...and songs by Sean Lennon.
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on May 01, 2012, 11:04 PM:
Hercules Returns (1993) is a very funny Australian film. Three friends buy an old Cinema and for the opening they decide to show the last film that ran in the old theater before it closed...Hercules. Just minutes before the film is to start they find out that the film is in Italian with no subtitles. So the three dub the entire movie themselves...It's hysterical
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on May 03, 2012, 08:15 PM:
Union Station (1950) ) is a film-noir crime drama starring William Holden and Barry Fitzgerald. A blind girl gets kidnapped and the detectives watch home movies of the girl to help in the investigation. The projector looks like a 16mm to me....What do you think?
Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on May 04, 2012, 02:35 AM:
i seem to remember an old 50s or 60s film with Robert Ryan as the projectionist in cinema with a pair of projectors, All I remember he is working them someone comes in and starts fighting him!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on May 04, 2012, 10:44 PM:
Patrick...here are the screen caps for that movie. It was Clash by Night (1952) and there were lot's of stars in it...Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Ryan, Paul Douglas (He's the guy who attacks Robert Ryan in the projection booth), and Mariyln Monroe.
Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on May 05, 2012, 08:14 PM:
great pictures!, looks like a pair of Centurys with Enarc arc lamps.
Posted by Akshay Nanjangud (Member # 2828) on May 06, 2012, 12:13 AM:
In Everything Must Go, Will Ferrell watches a home movie on a Bell & Howell projector. I couldn't take pics, sorry.
Another one is Peeping Tom in which there is film everywhere!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on May 08, 2012, 12:47 AM:
In Apartment Zero (1988)... Hart Bochner (you might remember him from Die Hard. owns a failing cinema in Buenos Aires. Colin Firth plays his roommate.
Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on May 08, 2012, 02:27 AM:
Ahhh nice to see Colin Firth with a Ernemann II projector!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on May 08, 2012, 11:40 AM:
Patrick...You really know your 35mm projectors
Posted by Jonathan Trevithick (Member # 3066) on May 12, 2012, 06:19 AM:
In "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life", Graham Chapman's sergeant stops a World War One film on 16mm and then delivers a lecture to a rather small audience before being struck by the hand of God. It's difficult to see what projector was used at the back.
Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on May 13, 2012, 05:37 PM:
looks like a Bell & Howell autoload
Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on May 13, 2012, 06:01 PM:
The name is on the projector in the photo:)
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on May 14, 2012, 01:19 AM:
Here are some screen shots from the movie Everything Must Go (2010) that Akshay posted a few days ago. At first I thought the projector was a Canon PS1000, but from the side I'm not sure.
Posted by Jonathan Trevithick (Member # 3066) on May 14, 2012, 01:44 AM:
Here's an even trickier one. In the court scene from "After the Fox", a 35mm projector is wheeled in to prove that Peter Sellers' character was the gold thief and not a film maker by any standards. It was difficult to get a decent shot of it.... but any ideas?
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on May 28, 2012, 02:03 AM:
In The Artist (2011) George Valentin played by Oscar winning Jean Dujardin watches his own silent films on a 35mm projector and out of frustration pushes the projector to the floor.
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Posted by Chris Fries (Member # 2719) on May 29, 2012, 08:47 PM:
In Tennessee Williams' "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" (1961) with Vivien Leigh and Warren Beatty there is a scene near the end where 16mm home movies are being shown.
The same scene is in the 2003 remake with Helen Mirren.
It can be seen at the 47:48 mark in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi7gNbmkAmo
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on June 01, 2012, 08:35 PM:
I really liked Will Farrell in this very understated role in Stranger Than Fiction (2006)...also starring Emma Thompson, Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Queen Latifah. The clips are from a very brief segment when Will Farrell's character breaks away from his compulsive repetitive behaviors and begins to enjoy living his life. No projector shown...but you know there had to be one
Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on June 13, 2012, 06:22 AM:
The Artist is an amazing film Janice
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Posted by Richard Bock (Member # 1926) on June 13, 2012, 09:57 AM:
Don't forget the creepiest projector scene in all cinema history. Peeping Tom, the murderous woman killing,film fanatic. Michael Powell's and Pressburgers ,Archer Company masterpiece, revived by Marty Scorcese a number of years back
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on August 02, 2012, 03:46 PM:
It's been a while since I posted in this thread. I don't know how I missed this one...but Nick Nolte takes his psychiatrist Barbra Streisand to the movies - his old home movies that is - in The Prince of Tides (1991). Looks like another B&H.
Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on August 02, 2012, 06:43 PM:
Here in New Zealand we have a kiwi-made programme called Outragous Fortune and the grandpa dug out his super8 projector to watch his porno!!!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on August 04, 2012, 09:06 PM:
I was a big fan of the TV show Arrested Development. I was re-watching some episodes and found this very short projector reference. This was from the third season - episode six where Maybe makes a Christmas terror movie
Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on August 06, 2012, 01:53 AM:
Have we mentioned "Mr Bean's Holiday", in the cinema at Cannes.
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on August 06, 2012, 03:56 PM:
Don't think so, but I think you're right - there are multiple shots of the Cannes projection booth (or a stand-in for it). Can you grab us some screen shots?
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on August 06, 2012, 07:56 PM:
There are some screen shots of the projection room in the "Mr Bean" topic.
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on August 24, 2012, 05:47 AM:
Saw a episode of Columbo from 1974 titled: An Exercise In Fatality.
As an alibi the murderer arranged a film show of a "X-rated horror movie, uncut" in his home.
The funny thing is that he started the screening with the film in the position you can see in the picture, some 20 minutes in. I would have complained if I had been there, but everybody seemed quite happy with this.
What brand of projector is this?
I don't recognise it.
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on August 24, 2012, 07:58 PM:
I think it's a GRAFLEX.
Bill
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on September 16, 2012, 04:50 PM:
Time for another one
From the movie "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close"
Whats the projector?
Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on September 16, 2012, 08:34 PM:
It looks like a Bell & Howell 346 Auto Load.
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on September 25, 2012, 08:09 AM:
Have seen two more Columbo episodes with projectors in them.
"Forgotten Lady"
The murderer, Janet Leigh, are watching one of her old movies as a alibi for the murder of her husband, Sam Jaffe.
Unfortunately the film breaks and Columbo, sharp as ever, notices that the film was 14 minutes longer than usual on the night of the murder.
The second episode was "A Matter of Honor"
At the very beginning the would-be murderer, Ricardo Montalban, a retired bull-fighter, is watching some old films of his exploits in the bull-ring.
Looks like an old Ampro to me.
Will continue to watch these old episodes to see if there are more of them with projectors.
Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on September 25, 2012, 09:35 AM:
Its an Ampro alright. That must be David Pannell sitting next to it!
Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on September 25, 2012, 09:54 AM:
I don't know if "Dr Terror's House of Horrors" has been mentioned
but there was one in there when Jeremy Kemp was giving his
lecture on plants.Going by the limited views of it ,it looks like
the old standby, a Bell & Howell 636 16mm.
Posted by Terry Lagler (Member # 1110) on October 12, 2012, 11:53 AM:
Opening this weekend,
Sinister.
I hope it doesn't make us afraid of our projectors.
Cheers
Terry
Posted by Matt Villagomez (Member # 2919) on October 13, 2012, 09:36 PM:
Saw Sinister yestrerday. It was a really good movie. The projector and film was a very large part of the story. It was realy cool. I think I spent more time watching the projector than I did the actors.
Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on October 15, 2012, 04:47 PM:
Here's another from the TV series Ellery Queen with Jim Hutton. This one had Walter Pidgeon in it. The title 'Disappering Dagger' it looks like a 16mm projector.
Another Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You, this starred Peter Lawford. The pre-credits are in cinema projection booth so 35mm.
These are on my PVR I'll try to do screen shots of them.
Posted by Laksmi Breathwaite (Member # 2320) on October 20, 2012, 10:25 AM:
Yeah your right the projector was cool that it kept coming back and would follow him in Sinister I love the movie . Another movie to increase the fandom!
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 08, 2012, 05:34 PM:
Well there is no projector here, but it is taken in a cinema
From "Son Of Rambow"..yes Rambow, not Rambo
If you ever wondered how to pirate a movie, well this is how its done.
Graham.
Posted by Jeff Missinne (Member # 3373) on December 10, 2012, 12:21 AM:
Remember the Woody Woodpecker TV show? Walter Lantz's office "set" included a Bell & Howell 399AV, which he would sometimes run, or would sometimes ask Woody to run it with about the results you might expect. Ha-ha-ha-HAAA-ha!
Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on January 04, 2013, 06:59 AM:
Looks like you could see a lot of cameras, splicers, editors, projectors, blood and dead people in this film:
http://www.allaboutevilthemovie.com/photo5.html
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on January 04, 2013, 12:24 PM:
In a recent episode of My Three Sons Robbie is shown films that he made in class can anybody recognize the projector he is using?
Also I just happen to set my dvr for Voyage To The Bottom of The Sea Saturday night and it turns out they were using a 16mm model just not sure which one?? An Ampro?
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 04, 2013, 02:33 PM:
Nice ones Jim....I'm going to guess Robbie's projector is a Kodak Instamatic M80. The other...yes maybe an Ampro...but could be a Revere or Keystone too.
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on January 04, 2013, 07:49 PM:
Nice call janice on the my three sons after a little research i believe it is a kodak m80.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 07, 2013, 12:25 PM:
Here's a projector in an episode of The Rockford Files S5E11 The projected image was fake...and the projector looks to me more like a prop than a real 16mm projector...however the reels did turn?
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on January 10, 2013, 09:52 AM:
I noticed that to on the voyage the one scene shows the real image on the screen then on the other take the film it was much bigger taking up the whole screen.
Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on January 10, 2013, 07:13 PM:
also noticed in the bottom VOYAGE scene the projector has it's mains cord removed, and in the top it is pluged in!
the projector in the ROCKFORD shot looks like a Kodascope to me.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 10, 2013, 10:06 PM:
Nothing gets by the eagle eyes of this forum
Posted by Dino Everette (Member # 1378) on January 11, 2013, 12:39 AM:
Has anyone mentioned The Spiral Staircase? I watched a Super 8 print the other day and one scene takes place in an early movie house with a gentleman hand cranking one of those old flickers..
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on January 13, 2013, 08:05 PM:
Came across this when watching a re-run on TV a few weeks ago...so its a quick snap.
From the popular British TV series "Man About The House" 1973-1976.....thats going back a bit.
Anyone recognize the make of projector?
My guess its a "Bolex SM8" could be wrong though.
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on January 14, 2013, 09:30 AM:
I'm not sure about the projector but isn't 'Man About The House' what inspired 'Three's Company' in U.S.?
This looks just like the 'Three's Company' episode 'Home Movies' that is also within this topic!
Nice find Graham!
Bill
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on January 14, 2013, 11:45 AM:
Thats right Bill
Three's Company was taken from Man About The House.
Three's Company had an excellent cast and was in itself a very popular TV series out here.
Incidentally actor Brian Murphy "seated in above the photo" is the Patron of the British Film Collectors Convention...BFCC.
Graham.
Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on January 14, 2013, 11:48 AM:
Brian Murphy, who played Roper in Man About The House is also a film collector and patron of the British Film Collectors Convention.
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on January 14, 2013, 01:14 PM:
nice eye work Patrick the guy to the left on voyage unplugged the unit because he did not like what he saw.
Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on January 16, 2013, 02:21 AM:
Hellsapoppin 1941, also a scene in Ace Ventura WHen Nature Calls
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on February 18, 2013, 05:14 PM:
I was surprised to se a short scene in my newest feature on 16MM, Meteor, where a (I think) 16MM projector is shown briefly in the background.
Posted by Matt McBride (Member # 3311) on February 19, 2013, 10:03 AM:
A good portion of The Majestic revolves around restoring a movie theater. As such you see the projection booth quite a bit. I can't seem to find any decent pics off the internet, though I suppose I could rip the pics off of the DVD I have but I am not that computer savvy.
Of interest though, the projectors appear to be very old centuries with the shutter blades outside in front of the lenses Plus the screen was masked with academy ratio, before the flat and scope ratios were established. On the rewind bench it looks like that have an old pair of neumade hand cranked rewinds.
Posted by John Davis (Member # 1184) on February 19, 2013, 04:00 PM:
The Majestic is a nice film and a possible 'pointless' answer to the question "the films of Jim Carrey" (UK BBC viewers should know the show 'pointless').
The Majestic is almost a projectionist version of Le retour de Martin Guerre (remade as Sommersby)
Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on March 08, 2013, 11:52 AM:
On the subject of Brian Murphy, I still have his ST1200, purchased
from Perry's in '91.
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on March 12, 2013, 10:17 AM:
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Posted by Elyas Tesfaye (Member # 3356) on March 12, 2013, 01:17 PM:
Steve, your "smack:" button in response to the "Why don't you guys get a DVD player?", just made my day... One word: PRICELESS LOL!!!
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on March 17, 2013, 09:42 AM:
In the very funny scene with Dudley Moore in Foul Play he uses a projector to show a adult film.
Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on April 10, 2013, 08:53 PM:
In the classic Trog, Joan Crawford shows 16mm footage to convince the authorities that the missing link is a gentle soul.
Doug
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on June 01, 2013, 02:26 PM:
I noticed this projector scene while watching a 1963 episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Richard Basehart plays a former actor turned defense attorney. At the conclusion of a murder trial the prosecuting attorney recognizes Basehart's closing argument as verbatim dialogue from a movie script Basehart starred in 30 years ago. This scene is the judge viewing the movie footage.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on July 18, 2013, 10:21 PM:
Last night I watched my 16mm copy of Curly Sue (1991) and was reminded of this scene where they snuck into a movie theatre to watch a 3D movie for free
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on July 21, 2013, 07:42 PM:
A projector shows up in the movie Invincible (2006). Greg Kinnear plays Dick Vermill, coach of the Philadelphia Eagles in 1976. In this scene he's watching football footage just before his family enters the room. Looks like a 16mm ...
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on August 27, 2013, 08:19 AM:
In "Ordeal by innocence" Miss Marple watches home movies of a murder victim.
It looks like a Siemens projector.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on August 27, 2013, 01:21 PM:
Nice screen shots Lars and a nice-looking projector too. I'm not familiar with Siemens projectors.
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on September 21, 2013, 07:07 AM:
Recently saw some projectors on TV.
Auction Hunters: in a recent episode, in their new shop, there is a projector in the background. Looks like an old B&H to me.
In Dexter there was a projector in some scenes. I don't know what kind of make that is, or if it's 8mm or super 8. But I don't think it's 16mm.
Posted by Terry Lagler (Member # 1110) on September 21, 2013, 07:44 AM:
Saw that episode of Dexter too. Looks like the Bell and Howell 256 reg.8mm projector I have.
Cheers
Terry
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on September 23, 2013, 04:30 PM:
I don't remember the titles but it could remind something to someone else, so I try : a film with Jerry Lewis where he is a pilot and a film is projected (the projector is fully automatic), an episode of the Avenger where Miss Peel is traped by someone and the film that is supposed to proove her fault is projected, a film from an Agatha Christie book in which Miss Marple is watching a 16 mm at the begining (a detective film of course, the film breaks at the end but no need to repair it because Miss Marple understood who the murderer was), a scary movie in which there is a projector in a classroom (I know this is less than precise...) and a French film (with Patrick Bruel)in which they watch a 16 mm film, this is the only one for which I have the title : K (it was easy to remember !)
Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on September 24, 2013, 04:31 PM:
This is from "The Brain" Quite a fun film. Impressive to hear both David Niven & Eli Wallach speak foreign.
IMDB
The Brain to view
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on October 01, 2013, 01:08 AM:
In The Conjuring they use a 16 mm projector and a 16 mm camera. In Sinister a writer watch films he found in the attic with a projector.
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Posted by Chris Fries (Member # 2719) on October 01, 2013, 06:17 PM:
"The Mirror Crack'd" from 1980 begins with the villagers of St. Mary Mead watching a murder mystery film on 16mm. The film breaks just before the Inspector in the movie reveals the killer.
Posted by Brian Stearns (Member # 3792) on October 01, 2013, 08:32 PM:
I saw the film online,but I remember Get Carter having a projector in it. The scene where he is in bed smoking in the ladies apartment.He views a porno and sees his niece in it.
Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on October 02, 2013, 09:50 AM:
David that picture with Niven has the Heurtier sound projector in it and is sitting on its amplifier which was a seperate item. Model looks like the 'Superson'
Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on October 02, 2013, 10:34 AM:
Lee, That would fit the film was a co-production with France one of them.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on October 16, 2013, 12:55 AM:
I've been catching up on the TV series GRIMM. In the 13th episode of season one...guess what?....a hand cranked projector...too cool! ...AND Hitler turns out to really be a monster (but then we already knew that).
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Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on October 16, 2013, 01:51 AM:
Hugo
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on October 16, 2013, 02:57 PM:
More photos from Hugo Graham... here: http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=00 1619;p=12#000294
Does anybody know who made the projector shown in Grimm photos above?
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Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on October 17, 2013, 06:50 AM:
That looks like the hand cranked movie projector that was sold as a toy under the Montgomery Wards name. If I am not mistaken, I believe these were manufactured by Keystone. I have one and it is 35mm.
Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on October 17, 2013, 07:59 AM:
They're fiddling a lot with a projector in a norwegian film, Norske Byggeklosser
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069021/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_c-wvm6VzQ
Quite funny
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on October 19, 2013, 08:05 PM:
Earlier this year one chanel reprised the entire series of E. R. and in one of them they looked at some home movies.
Then in Zero Hour they were also looking at some film.
And right now we are seing season two of the Swedish/Danish series Bron/Broen "The Bridge". In episode four there was not a projector but other film stuff, like an editor and several reels and even a super8 camera.
This series (season one) have been sold to a staggering 131 countries worldwide, so the chance for you to see it are rather good. Please do, I recommend it.
This is slightly OT but I have to ask.
In this second season, in the list of executive producers, the name Alexander Vandeputte is present. Is this the same person who frequents this board or is it a namesake?
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on November 10, 2013, 06:59 PM:
I have just watched a super 8 digest of Mad Movie Makers. You can see several projectors on it.
Posted by Chris Fries (Member # 2719) on November 11, 2013, 07:53 PM:
At the beginning of NIXON from 1995, the Watergate burglars are in a conference room watching a 16mm sales training film.
Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on November 19, 2013, 06:01 PM:
Does this count? Swedish film for use in schools. Called Utan Hem (Homeless) and is about children in the world with no place to call home.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 19, 2013, 06:44 PM:
Looks good to me Vidar ...very cute!
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on November 23, 2013, 03:10 PM:
In episode 300 of CSI there was a brief scene with a projector at a crime-scene.
Posted by Thor Andre Karlsen (Member # 3021) on December 25, 2013, 09:40 PM:
Torchwood (Dr. Who spin-off) season 2 episode 10 (From out of the rain):
Lots of film stuff in this episode of Torchwood. scary people walks out of film!
They did somehow show 35mm film on an Eiki RT-something, although its not weird at all compared to the rest of the episode.
Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on December 27, 2013, 03:22 AM:
Love that series ... The first two seasons are brilliant, the rest is also nice, but not same class as the first
Posted by Thor Andre Karlsen (Member # 3021) on December 27, 2013, 02:09 PM:
I love that series to, just hoping for it to reopen
Posted by William Fleming (Member # 2632) on January 05, 2014, 03:30 PM:
The horror movie Sinister.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 05, 2014, 05:03 PM:
Here are some screen caps from Sinister (2012).
Posted by William Fleming (Member # 2632) on January 06, 2014, 02:16 AM:
Thanks Janice i didnt have any to put up
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 06, 2014, 12:53 PM:
A projector was briefly visable in this scene from Making Mr. Right (1987) starring John Malcovich.
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 30, 2014, 06:45 PM:
I've seen this movie a dozen times and never noticed until last night that the projector was briefly visable in this scene from Doc Hollywood (1991)
Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on January 30, 2014, 07:47 PM:
I just love that scene in the movie.
Posted by Nick Vermeirsch (Member # 4136) on February 01, 2014, 05:58 AM:
Hello to all! As a young super 8 film and projector collector and being new to this forum, I also remember a lot of projectors in different episodes of The Simpsons (one is used to give an outdoor movie show, other mostly in Bart's elementary school or used for home movies).
But the appearing of super 8 in film/television that I remember very well is an episode of the Belgian series "FC De Kampioenen" (not well known outside Belgium I guess ), in which there is a super 8 projector (a Fumeo 9910), used to give a local film show in town. The owner of the projector was bribed to "eliminate" the movie before the showing, he didn't have the chance to do that, so he tries (in the final part of the episode) to do everything during the show to stop the projection. He plugs out the electricity cable during the show, puts a can of oil in front of the lens and at the end (hoping that nobody would discover why the image dissapeared he failed in that, anyway) and when nothing seems to help him to get rid of the film, he smashes down the projector with a big cowbar.
As it's not enough, he takes the film reel of the projector (which is now in pieces on the ground) en soaks the film in a barrel of lubrication oil. Very funny episode (if you understand dutch )
The link to the episode: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xDdrnEmIOs
And here some pictures:
Putting a can of oil in front of the lens:
Smashing the projector (ough, and he says before doing this: "There's that stupid fly again!"
Posted by Alexander Vandeputte (Member # 1803) on February 01, 2014, 11:18 AM:
Welcome to a new Belgian member!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 01, 2014, 04:20 PM:
Yes...Welcome Nick
Posted by Nick Vermeirsch (Member # 4136) on February 04, 2014, 06:29 AM:
Thank you Nice to be on this forum, already learned a lot!
Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on February 18, 2014, 12:51 PM:
Scene from Taxi Driver.
It looks like a 16mm projector.
Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on February 24, 2014, 10:29 AM:
The Day of the Jackal had a small seqence with a projector in it
Anyone know what projector it is?
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on March 08, 2014, 03:41 PM:
Vidar...not sure, but could it be a Bell and Howell.
This Italian film "Shoeshine" received the first Foreign Academy Award in 1948...its very good. Not sure what the 35mm projector shown is, as the boys are watching a film show while they are serving time in prison.
Posted by Trevor Adams (Member # 42) on March 24, 2014, 04:48 AM:
In an "Allo Allo' episode Flick and Helga are watching a 16mm silent on a SPECTO projector!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 24, 2014, 11:35 AM:
In John Laguizamo's new one man show "Ghetto Klown" on HBO... he used a 16mm projector on stage so you get the feeling of watching images from his past. This is a very funny and at times poignant show. The projector looks like an Elmo 16-CL.
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on April 15, 2014, 06:52 PM:
In the Australian series "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" episode nine of season two, called "Framed For Murder", is set in the film business. In the end of the episode (set in 1928/29) they are showing the first "talkie" from "down under" on a decidedly modern portable 35MM projector.
Then there is a episode of the series "Heartbeat", season 11 episode 14, "From Ancient Grudge", where they use a projector to show films in a town hall.
The film they are going to show is "Doctor Zhivago", hence the mentioning of Omar Sharif in the subtitles.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 15, 2014, 08:59 PM:
Fantastic examples Lars... and great screen shots!
Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on April 16, 2014, 01:12 AM:
One from Hammer Films The Quatermass (E)Xperiment or The Creeping Unknown.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on July 09, 2014, 02:37 AM:
My son actually called me that he saw a projector while watching Mad Men on NetFlix You can just see part of the old 16mm projector and a few films in mailing boxes in the book case.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on July 23, 2014, 02:50 PM:
I've now got my son on projector watch. He found another one on Mad Men last night
Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on July 23, 2014, 03:15 PM:
No pictures, but we had a Laser Disc evening today and saw Popcorn with Dee Wallace Stone (1990 or 1991) ... About a cinema having a horror sci-fi festival. They find an old film of 35mm and this sets off some curse. Loads of reels and projectors
A cheap B movie, but still great fun
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on July 23, 2014, 04:18 PM:
OK,
Just to change it up, how about one from a film that is available on Super-8? (It's where I first saw it.)
This is from Auto Cine(1967), a Pathe Pic which shows Rome's (then) brand new Drive-In Cinema.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on July 23, 2014, 06:13 PM:
Now that's a projector, Steve
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on July 23, 2014, 09:30 PM:
Yep!
-They start looking big to me as soon as they don't have a handle on top of 'em!
Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on July 26, 2014, 05:36 AM:
Back to The Ipcress File, later in the film Harry is being brainwashed (Supposedly by Russians) to kill his boss we (and he) see the projectors that were used to show the brainwashing images. They were the same model B&H machines as in the briefing. I wonder if that's what gave the game away to him that it was his own side that had him.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on August 03, 2014, 02:56 AM:
Saw this projector in an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. From it's back it looks like a Bolex 18-5 to me...which is a silent machine. However by the miracle of TV ...there is sound.
Any other guesses on what this projector is?
Posted by Ken Finch (Member # 2768) on August 10, 2014, 12:21 PM:
Watched "People Like Us" on dvd in my cinema last night (hired from Lovefilm) long scene at the end where a home movie is shown using a Bell and Howell silent machine is used. Looks like a model 606 to me. Don't know if this has been mentioned before as I haven't trawled through the previous 17 pages of this topic. Ken Finch.
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on August 11, 2014, 02:04 AM:
Can it really be over 2 years? Wow, so way back on page 12 I posted an index. It's time for an update!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on August 11, 2014, 10:40 AM:
Time sure does fly Bill You did a great job at indexing all these posts. It's fun to look back through them too, but the index is really helpful to avoid repeating. Looking forward to your updated list
Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on August 25, 2014, 09:47 AM:
A Technicolor 1000 side-loading cartridge (Super 8?) projector in Super Bitch/Blue Movie Blackmail an Italian film (Pi Pou' Eassere Piu' Bastardi Dell' Ispettore Cliff?).
Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on August 25, 2014, 03:30 PM:
Quite a lot of filming and projecting on 16mm in the film "The Quiet Ones"(2014) from the legendary film production company Hammer Films.
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on September 25, 2014, 09:48 AM:
Not sure of the movie title I remember watching it this summer chong was having problems with his super 8 camera and was pulling all the film out of it.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on September 25, 2014, 12:04 PM:
Wish I knew what movie that was from Jim. I can just picture Tommy Chong fumbling with that film in the camera...very funny
Posted by Fabrizio Mosca (Member # 142) on September 25, 2014, 01:09 PM:
I don't know if it has already been mentioned (I didn't found it with a quick look on the posts), but in Ironman 2 Tony Stark is watching a film of his father presenting the Stark Expo with a Kodak Pageant 16mm projector
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on September 30, 2014, 01:10 AM:
I know this is a family-friendly site...so this projector-spotting addition will be handled discretely Starting around season 1 episode 8 of the Showtime series Masters of Sex, film becomes an intergral part of the plot. If you have ever watched any of this series you'll understand why these are carefully chosen screen caps ... and if you haven't seen it...well...Doesn't everybody watch films in their bathrobes?
BTW....cute little circa 1950's 8mm projector
Posted by Martin Jones (Member # 1163) on September 30, 2014, 02:32 AM:
Janice,
What HAS films to do with saxophones? I don't get it.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on September 30, 2014, 04:04 AM:
Saxophones Martin? ....now you have me confused.
Posted by Martin Jones (Member # 1163) on September 30, 2014, 07:54 AM:
I didn't see the series, but I presumed "Masters of Sax" was about saxophone prodigies.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on September 30, 2014, 12:20 PM:
LOL...Your browser must be censoring the text Martin . Replace the "a" in "sax" with an "e" ...and see if that makes it a little clearer. Of course if you haven't seen the series...it still might not make any since
Posted by Lars-Goran Ahlm (Member # 1908) on November 02, 2014, 03:30 PM:
I'm currently looking through all episodes of The Persuaders for the umpteenth time, and in the episode Angie...Angie the story unfolds during the Cannes Film Festival. One of the action pieces of this episode acctually takes place in a projection booth.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 02, 2014, 03:37 PM:
Great screen shots Lars.
Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on November 02, 2014, 04:05 PM:
Wow, that looks more like scans than screenshots. Awesome colors (do you have any faded ones at all?) ;-) Always great colors on your prints it seems. Thanks for sharing
Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on November 02, 2014, 06:17 PM:
I can't believe it. Roger Moore's hair got messed up!
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on December 30, 2014, 03:51 PM:
The French national channel France 2 broadcasted tonight a live play (with the French actor Gérard Jugnot). There was a cine projector displayed on a wall. It was not very visible but was there.
Posted by Jonathan Trevithick (Member # 3066) on January 16, 2015, 02:55 AM:
A 16mm Bell and Howell turns up several times in the History of Ballooning episode of 'Monty Python'.
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on January 27, 2015, 06:45 AM:
Another episode of Colombo has a 16 mm projector : the one with Robert Conrad.
Posted by Nick Vermeirsch (Member # 4136) on January 27, 2015, 08:05 AM:
Let's not forget the many appearances of projectors in The Simpsons! I don't recognize all the brands
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on March 17, 2015, 08:51 PM:
Some projectors seen on current shows "the middle" shows the daughter showing charlie brown cartoon outside for halloween cannot make out the unit but could be a Bell & Howell, the second is 3's company when chrissy takes up film making, the unit is a Elmo, the 3rd is the goldbergs, the unit is in the dark cannot tell what make it is.
Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on March 17, 2015, 09:10 PM:
Watched Sinister (2012 Movie) only the other evening and that was a fascinating watch given that it was all based around an attic find of 8mm Movie film and equipment that as the the title suggests, all had a very sinister background.. very spooky supernatural horror film and quite a good watch indeed!
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Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on March 18, 2015, 05:44 AM:
Yes, SINISTER is a pretty good horror movie with Ethan Hawke, who has made some interesting films. The film and projector is clearly Std 8, or Regular 8 but when the character looks up how to repair the film he looks up Super 8 film. Perhaps this is to show the character isn't familiar with film, anyway, he manages to splice the films okay...
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 18, 2015, 10:47 AM:
Andrew and Steven I had posted these screen shots from Sinister last year (page 16). I liked the suspense in this movie, but was disappointed in the ending. However the use of film and the old projector kept the movie interesting.
Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on March 18, 2015, 10:51 AM:
Thanks, that's interesting. It has just been on British TV so this is why it has been topical again. Good film. I liked how Ethan Hawke burned the projector and film but they just reappeared in perfect order. They made stuff to last in those days!
Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on March 18, 2015, 11:31 AM:
Sorry Janice, I didn't remember seeing this previously posted.
Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on March 18, 2015, 01:48 PM:
We watched Disney's The Barefoot Execative there was a couple of ptojectors featured. Sorry no images streamed it. We also enjoyed it.
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on March 22, 2015, 04:44 PM:
Mickey Rooney stars in Hey Mulligan in this episode he shows home movies which gets his boss (sitting on the couch)in trouble with his wife when she sees him with another woman.
Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on April 24, 2015, 05:32 PM:
I am unsure of what the movie is called, and this footage is dubbed but we can see a Cinemec LX1600 35mm portable in use.
https://youtu.be/i2xLbcEKt9M
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on April 24, 2015, 05:47 PM:
the title of the film is Malavita (it's written on YouTube ;-)
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 24, 2015, 08:29 PM:
The movie is actually called The Family (2013).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404311/
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on April 24, 2015, 11:56 PM:
Oups. Malavita is the title in French http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=207801.html.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on October 15, 2015, 02:23 AM:
This thread has settled down quite a bit...but here is my latest projector sighting. While binge watching the original TV series The Fugitive starring David Janssen...I spotted a 16mm projector in this last season's episode. Charles Bronson and his fellow agents were reviewing surveillance footage.
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on October 18, 2015, 01:40 AM:
In the spirit of the Halloween genre... Giant tarantulas roam the earth in the movie Tarantula (1955). The audiance learns about the deadly behaviors of tarantulas by viewing a 8mm film. However, the movie simulation on the screen is probably the worst I've ever seen. Notice the black rounded corner boarder around the image.
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Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on November 06, 2015, 01:35 PM:
In the recent film Regression, the action is set in 1990 and a projector is seen in a church.
Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on November 07, 2015, 12:26 PM:
I'm sure this ones already been mentioned but too many too read back through
Gremlins
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on November 16, 2015, 04:46 PM:
It's been mentioned before, but now I have frame grabs: Hitchcock's "Rebecca" (1940) contains a sequence where the de Winters (Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier) view 16mm home movies from their honeymoon. Since Manderley is fictionally located in England, I'm presuming the projector is an Ampro or something like it - but I have no idea.
The scene begins with Mrs. de Winter making an entrance to the viewing room in her new evening gown with a new hair style:
Then, as they begin viewing, you get a brief flash of the side of the projector:
Finally, as the conversation turns darker and trumps any interest of what's on the screen, a Hitchcockian use of the projector's lighting is a little disturbing:
Posted by Michel Boulet (Member # 2771) on November 16, 2015, 04:58 PM:
Its a Bell and Howell
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on November 26, 2015, 01:54 PM:
Thanks to my family, we have made a discovery worth putting out on film! In fact, had Shaun the Sheep been around back in the package film era, you can imagine how well it would've worked to have silent prints of this stuff. Well, here we are in the Internet age, and thanks to Amazon Prime, here are photos from Shaun the Sheep, Season 3, Episode 4, segment 3 entitled (most appropriately) "Film Night." Aardman did a super job with this. Having this on Super 8mm or 16 would be a treat.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 26, 2015, 04:37 PM:
That is so cute Bill
Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on November 27, 2015, 10:58 AM:
I am not sure if you count TV Sitcoms as Movies...but this one is a given!
Castaway Pictures Presents:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNKdLKD-OPs
Cheers,
Matt
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 27, 2015, 11:50 AM:
Matt, Jim Schrader actually posted this back in 2011
http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=001619;p=3#000071
A very funny episode! Always wondered how they got film for the camera?... developed it? ... and powered the projector? I guess it doesn't pay to think too much about the details and just enjoy the comedy
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on November 27, 2015, 12:20 PM:
Lou Franchetti had an absolutely gorgeous print of that Gilligan's Island episode at CineSea a couple of years ago.
You can't really appreciate the colors and the scenery of that show until you see a 16mm print.
-The answer to every technical challenge on Gilligan's Island was always "The Professor figured it out!".
He understood everything except...Ginger!
Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on November 27, 2015, 01:01 PM:
Jim seems to like the same films I like!
Okay, here is another many will maybe not know because it is a Canadian show, in fact, was broadcast right here in Hamilton, Ontario at CHCH TV, filmed locally as well.
Bwana Clide Batty from Hillarious House of Frightenstein:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PSbkHO3R5Y
Every episode(many of which are still being hunted for) featured this tangled mess of a projector.
not sure if one can make out the type, but since it is local to here and i cant seem to find anything but B&H or Kodaks around here, I bet it is a BH 16mm Autoload or something
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on November 27, 2015, 01:24 PM:
Matt...My guess is that projector is nothing more than a stage prop. It doesn't look like any 16mm I've ever seen. That lens is huge...more like for a slide projector lens or even more like a TV Camera lens. It's pretty flimsy too...might just be cardboard. I love all the film ribboned around it
Posted by Jonathan Trevithick (Member # 3066) on November 27, 2015, 03:11 PM:
Last night, I was watching "Dreadnought", a Derann Pathe Pic. One sequence illustrated entertainment for the submarine crew. They are seen huddled into a tight space next to an old Bell and Howell, watching another Pathe Pic on Hawaii!
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on November 27, 2015, 04:09 PM:
Those are good ones Bill
Here is one movie my wife was watching last week I would not recommend a bit to scary for me..."Fragile"...the only good thing about it was the B/H projector shown.
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Posted by Simon Balderston (Member # 5106) on November 30, 2015, 06:01 AM:
hi cheesy Chesney hawkes in the music video one and only from the film buddy song if you look carefully the is my kalee.
Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on December 31, 2015, 10:53 AM:
I ran a search and didn't see this one listed, so apologies if it has been mentioned and i missed it:
SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET
Real good Reel/projector footage in this one. Someone may know the projector type, i couldn't make it out myself...
The Dalai Lama is secluded, and watches films to learn more about life outside of Tibet. He asks Brad Pitt in one part to make him a 'movie box', ie. a mini cinema, which they watch films in.
Cheers,
Matt
Posted by John Richard Almond (Member # 2939) on January 07, 2016, 05:20 AM:
I have just started to watch "The man in the high castle" ........the use of a 16mm projector and film plays a massive role in the series.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzz_6dmv03I
Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on January 07, 2016, 05:29 AM:
What looked like a 16mm projector, I say that because it was out of focus, was in the Episode of Father Brown shown Tuesday. It was strange as it was about a cinema film being made, but the camera was shown to be an Arriflex 16 (not what I would have thought would be used for feature films in England in 1959' when this was set). The rushes were 16mm but at the end the Father was tied up with 35mm film that was being viewed on an editor (Moviola???).
Other film equipment shown was not right, a Bolex H16 being used as a sound on film camera and so on so it may have been a 8mm projector shown from the rear close to camera.
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on March 15, 2016, 06:58 PM:
You can see (very) briefly a movie projector in the film "Moonwalkers" I saw at the videma. Although the story is set in the UK (and partly in the USA), it seems, from the end crédits, that some scenes (the best ones probably ?) were shoot in Belgium.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on May 22, 2016, 02:29 PM:
While watching an old John Wayne movie last night (Trouble Along the Way (1953)...I stumbled upon this projector sighting.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on July 13, 2016, 12:18 AM:
I don't really pay attention to most commercials on TV (unless my son is in them ) But even though I'm not a Vodka drinker ... prefer Tequila ... for some reason I felt connected with some of the images in this Grey Goose commercial I think you'll see what I mean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpxE0MGJRSM
Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on July 13, 2016, 09:31 AM:
Wonderful commercial Janice! Thanks for posting it.
I think I will show a movie on my neighbor's house tonight!
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on July 13, 2016, 09:36 AM:
I did that once...
-didn't mean to!
(When your screen hangs in front of a picture window, you gotta pull it down!)
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on July 13, 2016, 12:32 PM:
Paul...A flight like in this commercial is on my bucket list
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpxE0MGJRSM
Posted by Brad Kimball (Member # 5) on July 13, 2016, 01:19 PM:
O'h Yes!!!! What the cost would be should be staggering!
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on July 13, 2016, 01:54 PM:
Excellent Janice that was really good
Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on July 13, 2016, 07:41 PM:
Beautiful commercial. Thanks for sharing Janice.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on September 16, 2016, 12:52 PM:
I just saw a trusty Bell & Howell 16mm in the 1987 movie SUMMER SCHOOL starring Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley. They were watching The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on September 16, 2016, 12:55 PM:
Wow!
-Look how young Gibbs looks!
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on September 18, 2016, 10:26 PM:
Remember the TV Show Mystery Science Theater 3000? Well...they made a movie too. It was basically the same format with a guy and two robots making funny sarcastic commentary while watching very bad sci fi movies. In the movie version the commentary was a lot more edgy...and very funny. Anyway they used a projector stage prop at the introduction and during a mid-movie break.
Posted by Bryan Chernick (Member # 1998) on October 01, 2016, 01:59 PM:
I think this is a Bender model. From the Futurama episode Crimes Of The Hot.
Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on October 04, 2016, 07:22 AM:
Just watched MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN and one of the child characters is a projector. As a added bonus, part of the story takes place in Blackpool; home of the Northwest Film Fair.
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 10, 2016, 03:12 PM:
Here is a neat promo still from the movie "Super 8"
Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on December 10, 2016, 03:20 PM:
Graham,
They've graduated to 16mm!
Doug
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on December 10, 2016, 05:56 PM:
Your right Doug
Posted by Douglas Warren (Member # 1047) on December 10, 2016, 07:40 PM:
I was watching the series "Grange Hill" on You Tube recently. In one of the episodes (1983-84 era) the science teacher was having trouble threading a 16 mm projector (looked like a Bell and Howell). The students never did get to see the intended film!
Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on January 15, 2017, 05:38 PM:
A 64x/65x series Bell and Howell showed up in Sherlock tonight Series 4 episode 3 with Mycroft watching family movies.
Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on January 15, 2017, 06:18 PM:
There is a scene in A MONSTER CALLS with the mom and her son threading up a 16mm projector and watching King Kong.
Posted by William Olson (Member # 2083) on January 15, 2017, 07:04 PM:
Here's one nobody mentioned. It goes back to 1939. In "The Women", Normal Shearer shows home movies of a recent trip to her daughter using a 16mm projector.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 19, 2017, 07:59 PM:
Here's a projector sighting I just spotted in Warren Beatty's recent movie Rules Don't Apply. Movies about Howard Hughes in his later life deal with his bizarre behavior and this film was no exception. I liked the film's quirkiness and its supporting cast. Annette Bening...Matthew Broderick... Alec Baldwin...Martin Sheen...and Candice Bergen.
Posted by Richard Whitman (Member # 5849) on March 27, 2017, 07:27 PM:
In The Nice Guys (2016), a reel of 35mm is central to the plot.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 27, 2017, 10:34 PM:
Nice shots Richard. I haven't seen that movie...but I notice it has Ryan Gosling and a chubby Russell Crowe I'm putting this on my must-watch list.
Posted by Steve Meyer (Member # 5197) on April 01, 2017, 06:14 PM:
Foul Play-(1978) with Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore...
Good Movie too....
Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on April 07, 2017, 07:55 AM:
This is hilarious!
Carol Burnett Show:Airline Security
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qspcQr-Y9_U
Coming in at the 5 minute mark is the film related part. so funny! Can you imagine this happening to your best film!!
Posted by Richard Whitman (Member # 5849) on April 17, 2017, 01:25 AM:
In The Founder (2016), a handful of film projectors can be seen in the office of the original McDonald's restaurant. They are never used on screen.
Posted by Patrick Walsh (Member # 637) on April 17, 2017, 05:22 AM:
Their Finest 2017, has lots of projector shots in it 16mm/35mm
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on June 20, 2017, 05:01 PM:
There's a tv commercial (for Haagen Dazs) that is currently shown in Belgium in this period but I couldn't find it on the net. It starts with young people watching a film projected by a cine projector.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on June 23, 2017, 01:00 AM:
Although this is a commercial for the iPhone there's plenty of film and projector references. Interesting juxtapositioning of the two technologies.
https://youtu.be/wbpBdMUrqV8
Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on June 23, 2017, 08:25 PM:
MASTER INDEX!
PAGE NUMBER OF POSTS WITHOUT PHOTOS IN PARENTHESIS
PAGE NUMBER OF POSTS WITH PHOTOS PLAIN
8mm 6
Abominable Dr. Phibes 2
Absence of Malice (1), 6
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (15)
Ace Venture: Pet Detective (1), 6
Addams Family, The (1991) 11
After the Fox 13
Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The “Starring the Defense” 15
Allo Allo (TV) (17)
Amityville Horror (6)
Apartment Zero 13
Arrested Development (TV, S3 Ep6) 13
Artist, The (5), 13
Auction Hunters (TV) 15
Auto-Cine (Pathé Pictorial, 1967) 17
Aviator, The 8
Awakenings (1990) 10
Bachelor Party (1984) 11
Backwash (Chapt. 9) (3)
Barefoot Executive, The (18)
Batman (TV) 10
Best of Times (1986) 7
Big Time Operators 3
Billy Jack 5
Blast from the Past 12
Blob, The (2), (3), 9
Blow Out (1), 5
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (2)
Boy in the Striped Pajamas (4), 11
Boy Who Could Fly (2), 4
Brady Bunch “The Un-Underground Movie” (6)
Brain, The 15
Brewster’s Millions 10
Broen (“The Bridge,” Swedish TV) 16
Butterfly Effect, The (2), 5
Candidate, The (3)
Capricorn One (1), 10
Carol Burnett Show: “Airline Security” (20)
Cat and Canary (1978) (3), 9
Cat from Outer Space 4, 12
Chillerama (7)
China Syndrome, The (1), 7
Chive prop warehouse in Hollywood 5
Christmas Vacation (3)
Cider House Rules, The (1), 12
Cinema Paradiso 3, 13
Clash by Night (2), 13
Clockwork Orange, A 3
College Confidential (2)
Columbo “A Matter of Honor” 14
Columbo “An Exercise in Fatality” 14
Columbo “Forgotten Lady” 7, 14
Columbo “Make Me a Perfect Murder” (3)
Coming Home 4
Coneheads 11
Conjuring, The (15)
Criminal Minds (1)
CSI New York (TV) (1)
CSI (TV) Episode 300 16
Curly Sue 15
Day of the Jackal 17
Days of Thrills and Laughter 6
D-Day on Mars (6)
Death Ship (1980) (1), 10
Demons (Argento) (4)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1), 9
Dexter (TV) 15
Dillinger Is Dead (2)
Doc Hollywood 16
Dodgeball (1), 5
Dr Terror’s House of Terrors (14)
Dreadnaught (Pathé Pictorial) (19)
Dressed to Kill (1), 7
Ellery Queen “Adventure of Veronica’s Veils” 12
Ellery Queen “Disappearing Dagger” (14)
Ellery Queen “Don’t Look Behind You” (14)
Enter the Dragon 1
ER (TV) 16
Everything Must Go 13
Evita (2)
Ex Mrs. Bradford, The (2)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 14
Family, The (2013) (18), (19)
Father Brown (TV) (19)
Fathom (1967) (10), 11
FC De Kampioenen (TV, Belgium) 16
Fight Club (1999) 8
Final Conflict, The – see “Omen III”
Flintstones – episode “Reel Trouble” (1964) 12
Foul Play 15, 20
Founder, The (2016) 20
Fragile 19
Friday the 13th: the Final Chapter (3)
Full Moon in Blue Water (2)
Fugitive, The (TV) S4, Ep 17 19
Get Carter 8, (16)
Ghetto Klown (TV) 17
Gigantis the Fire Monster (2)
Gilligan’s Island “Castaway Pictures Presents” 3, (19)
Goldbergs, The (TV) 18
Grange Hill (TV) (20)
Gremlins (1984) (1), 6, 11, (19)
Grey Goose (TV commercial) 19, (20)
Grimm, episode 13 (11), 16
Gus 6
Haagen Dazs TV ad (Belgium) (20)
Happy Days (TV) 6
Haven (2)
Heartbeat (TV) S11, Ep14 17
Heaven Can Wait (2), 5
Hellzapoppin’ (3), 10, (15)
Hercules Returns 13
Here’s Your Life (Swedish) (3)
Hey Mulligan (TV) 18
Hilarious House of Frightenstein (TV) (19)
Hooper (1978) (1), 10
How I Met Your Mother (C4) (1)
How I Met Your Mother (TV pilot) 12
Hugo (2011) (5), 12, 16
I Lost in Jeopardy (video) 3
Illusionist, The (2006) 12
Inglorious Basterds (3), 6
Invincible 15
Ipcress File, The (10), 11, (17)
iPhone TV ad “Together” 20
Iron Man 2 (18)
Italian Job, The (1969) (1), 5
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (TV) S8, Ep1 17
JFK (1991) 4
LA Confidential (1)
Last Action Hero 3
Last Picture Show 6
Leave it To Beaver 4
Longest Yard, The (2), 8
Looking Glass War 3
Lost (season 2) (1), 8
Lost Highway (1)
Love and Bullets 2
M*A*S*H (TV) 4
Mad Men (TV), S1 Ep 6; S2, Ep 3 17
Magic Box, The (Robert Donat) (10)
Magic Lantern (1903) 7
Majestic, The (15)
Malavita – see “Family, The”
Man About the House (UK TV) 15
Man and a Woman, A 10
Man in the High Castle, The (TV) (19)
Manhunter (1)
Making Mr. Right 16
Memories of Me (2), (10), 11
Meteor 15
Middle, The (TV) 18
Mighty Joe Young (1949) (2), 9
Miracle (2004) 7
Mirror Crack’d (1980) 15
Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (TV) S2, Ep 9 17
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (20)
Monster Calls, A (20)
Monster in Paris, A 13
Monty Python “History of Ballooning” 18
Monty Python “Ministry of Silly Walks” 9
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life 13
Moonlighting (season 2) 4
Moonwalkers (19)
Mr. Bean’s Holiday (14)
Mr. Bill 1
My Favorite Year 9
My Three Sons TV 14
Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Movie (1996) 20
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 6
Nice Guys, The (2016) 20
Night of the Comet (1984) (3), 10
Nixon 16
Norske Byggeklosser (16)
Odd Couple (TV) 11
Omega Man, The (1), 11
Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981) (2), 9
On the Beat (2)
Ordeal By Innocence 15
Our Gang “Big Premiere” (6)
Outrageous Fortune (TV, New Zealand) (13)
Paris, Texas (2), 9
Partridge Family (TV) 5
Pee Wee’s Playhouse “King of Cartoons” 6
Peeping Tom 13
People Like Us (17)
Persuaders, The (TV) “Angie…Angie” 18
Pi Pou' Eassere Piu' Bastardi Dell' (Italy) (17)
Play it Again, Sam 3
Player, The (1992) 12
Popcorn (1991) (17)
Prince of Tides, The 13
Puss in Boots (1922) 7
Python (John Cleese) 1
Quartermass Experiment (2), 17
Quiet Ones, The (2014) (17)
Quiz Show (2), 7
Rebecca (1), (8), 9, 19
Regression (2015) (19)
Remember the Titans 7
Rockford Files, The (TV) S5, Ep11 14
Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone 13
Ruby (2)
Rules Don’t Apply (2016) 20
Seven Years in Tibet (19)
Shaun the Sheep (TV) S3 Ep4 “Film Night” 19
Shawshank Redemption 3
Sherlock (TV) S4, Ep 3 (20)
Sherlock, Jr. (Keaton) (3), 9
Shoeshine (Italy) 17
Silent Movie (Brooks) (3), 8
Simpsons, The (TV) 18, 20
Sinister 14, (15), 16, (18)
Slumdog Millionaire (1)
Smarty Cat (Tom & Jerry) 10
Smile (1975) 8
Smooth Operator (Sade music video) 8
Son of Rambow [sic] 14
South Park (TV) 12
Spiral Staircase, The (14)
Starman (1), 4
Station Agent, The (6)
Stealing Home 5
Stranger Than Fiction 13
Stranger, The 4
Strictly Ballroom (7), 7
Stunt Man, The (1980) (10), 11
Summer School 20
Sunset Boulevard (1), 11
Super 8 (3), 10, 11, 20
Take the Money and Run 4
Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, The (1972) (10)
Tarantula 19
Targets (1968) (3), 10
Taxi Driver 17
Terror (1978) (2)
That Certain Summer (Hal Holbrook) (2)
Their Finest (2017) (20)
Them (1954) 9
Three’s Company “Home Movies” (1978) (8), 8, 18
Tiger and the Pussycat (1967) 9
Tingler, The (1958) (2), 8
Torchwood (UK TV, S2, Ep10) 16
Tour of the Thomas Ince Studio (1924) 7
Trog 15
Trouble Along the Way 19
Twilight Zone “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” (1), 4
Union Station 13
Utan Hem (Homeless) 16
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea 14
Waterboy, The (1), 6
Whitechapel, episode 5 (11)
Wombles, The “Film Show” (1975) (5)
Women, The (1939) (20)
Woody Woodpecker TV Show (14)
World’s Fastest Indian (1)
Wrong Arm of the Law (10), 11
X-Files “Sunshine Days” (2)
Yanks (1979) 8
Zero Hour 16
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Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on January 06, 2018, 11:22 AM:
Just found this watching a Burt Lancaster movie Trapeze (1956). Burt Lancaster is reviewing some movie footage with Tony Curtis of his accident attempting a triple somersault on the trapeze. This movie really shows how skilled Lancaster was as a gymnast.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 09, 2018, 12:40 AM:
I've watched my 16mm print of One On One (1977) a dozen times and just last night noticed this shot which was only on for a split second. My print wasn't good enough to get a decent screen capture...so I got this one off my digital copy. I know this is a Kodak Analyst 16mm projector because I have one
Posted by Burton Sundquist (Member # 5813) on February 10, 2018, 09:19 PM:
Martin Scorsese's 1973 Mean Streets. The opening credits are superimposed on home movies being projected and screened by?
...I think this was Scorsese's homage to the love of the art of film and filmmaking.
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on February 11, 2018, 09:53 PM:
"Scorcese", you say?
Something I found out when I became a Dad is it changes your on-screen life considerably. Starting in 2003, by wife and I started seeing kid-flicks and did for years. We saw every iteration of Winnie the Pooh that came on screen. We saw nothing racier than a couple of Pixars. PG rated became like an "X"! ("They're holding hands...That's so HOT!")
It happened one time when he was about 9. This was something called "Hugo". I had no idea what it was about: probably the usual heroic neighborhood kids saving the world from idiotic adults, so I went (It's the Dad's Job!).
I got about 20 minutes into it and realized I was in the presence of one of my favorite film genres: "films about film".
-years of Winnie the Pooh had finally paid off!
Later we bought the Blu-Ray, it made a nice double-feature with Blackhawk's "Le Voyage dans la Lune".
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on February 12, 2018, 12:23 PM:
Watched "A Monster Calls" 2016 last year. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones and a very talented young actor Lewis MacDougall. I would not recommend it for young children, due to the subject matter of his mother slowly dying of cancer....it could be a bit much...anyway its a well made and thought provoking film, here are a couple of screen shots from last year.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 27, 2018, 09:21 PM:
Jim Carrey fires up an old 16mm Ampro projector in the opening scenes of Man on the Moon (1999).
Posted by David Baker (Member # 3259) on February 28, 2018, 01:13 PM:
Did anyone mention the 1973 horror - thriller MADHOUSE with Vincent Price & Peter Cushing ?
I recall 2 scenes - 1st one where Cushing is showing clips of Price's old AIP films on a 35MM projector at his home .
2nd one is at the end when Cushing turns on the 35mm projector in his home to see a scene that Price had filmed as he burns down the set in the TV studio - then Price appears in front of the screen to kill Cushing .
Fun stuff !
But I wish I had some screen shots of it for you all !
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on March 01, 2018, 12:56 PM:
This is more of a film viewer than a projector.
Spotted it in the 2009 movie The Box starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, and Frank Langella.
Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on March 01, 2018, 06:03 PM:
Saw an episode of pawn stars the other day, the whole episode dedicated to watching an 8mm film of FDR.
Here's some info:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/14/pawn-stars-footage-of-fdr-video_n_1275683.ht ml
Here is the episode to watch: FDR 8mm Pawnstars Episode
pic of canister
Posted by Luigi Castellitto (Member # 3759) on March 03, 2018, 08:03 PM:
I checked, it seems that miss one of the most "important" films for us small format filmakers.
The Polish "Amator", of 1979, of Krzysztof Kieslowski.
It's history (I no spoiler, it's also available with subtitled, see it!) of an ordinary man who is absorbed into the power of cinema... in good and bad.
In the movie there are many items of small format in iron curtain: a soviet Quarz 2 Double 8 and a 16mm Krasnogorsk 3, a Czechoslovakian editor viewer Meopta Meonet compact N, many big "table" editor viewer, small format reels and films, in the laboratory where the protagonists work there is also a projector, but I should review to understand what model it is.
Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on March 03, 2018, 09:57 PM:
Thanks for the link to Pawn Stars and the F.D.R. standard film Mathew James
That would've been amazing if it proved that someone with a standard 8mm camera went back in time to film from 1882
Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on March 11, 2018, 06:25 PM:
You're welcome Clinton! Glad you enjoy it.
Found another hidden projector in Ray Harryhausen's Mother Goose starting in at the :38 seconds mark. You can watch it here folks.These little animated shorts are awesome!:
8mm projector in mother goose
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on March 25, 2018, 03:22 PM:
Spotted an 8mm projector on the sitcom ALF this morning not sure what make this unit is Kodak?
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on March 25, 2018, 07:48 PM:
Looks like a Sankyo 2000 with original take up reel also!
Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on April 13, 2018, 06:38 PM:
Wish I could find a film print of this one
https://youtu.be/JpxE0MGJRSM
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 13, 2018, 11:54 PM:
Yes Graham that was a great commercial. I posted some some screen caps on page 19.
http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=001619;p=19#000472
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 13, 2018, 11:57 PM:
Yes Graham... I loved that commercial. I posted a few screen caps on page 19. A ride in that blimp would be the coolest
http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=00 1619;p=19#000472
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Posted by Mark Mander (Member # 340) on April 14, 2018, 03:03 AM:
Elvis the Movie has a 16mm projector in it ,I remember it somewhere in it where Elvis is watching James Dean??? Mark
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on April 14, 2018, 04:22 PM:
I re-watched the original Swedish version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) on a bus ride back from SoCal last week. Spotted this scene with a projector in it.
Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on April 23, 2018, 10:26 AM:
In Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This a TV movie about his life, he was seen watching a Laurel & Hardy short from Standard 8. I could not identify the projector as all shots of it were with the light from it hitting the camera lens.
Posted by Reese Williams (Member # 6432) on May 03, 2018, 08:15 AM:
Awesome!
I am impressed
Posted by Joseph Gerard (Member # 5721) on May 15, 2018, 06:24 AM:
The Film Bulletproof Monk (2003) has projectors, screening room, and assorted cine gear as one of the main characters has a job as a projectionist.
Danish adult film of the late 60's and early 70's occasionally features projectors as a 'plot device'.
The adult feature 'The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann' features projectors several times, including a projector in the bedroom (who hasn't one of those), and also a bonkers portable flashlight mounted on a hard hat which is supposed to be a cine camera.
Posted by Joseph Gerard (Member # 5721) on May 29, 2018, 09:33 AM:
Also
1. The Beatles Film Help has a projector in the first few minutes (Titles /Intro)
2. Midnight Cowboy - Projectors in the Hip Couple party scene
3. The Film 'The Dambusters' has a projector sequence where Barnes Wallis shows off the bouncing bomb.
Posted by Ali Hipperson (Member # 5643) on October 23, 2018, 07:39 AM:
On Talking Pictures TV (CH81 - Freeview) this Thursday, 25th, at 6pm is George Cukor's 'It Should Happen To You' 1954 - starring:
Judy Holliday; Peter Lawford; and Jack Lemmon (according to my father in his first major role??)
Lemmon plays a would-be documentary film-maker who meets Judy Holliday (surely one of the best comedic actresses of all-time and who died quite young of breast cancer age 44 in 1965) in Central Park, New York.
Nearing the end of the film Judy enters Lemmon's room (not realising that he has moved-out) and comes across a 16mm projector all set-up and threaded with the film footage that he had (discreetly) shot of her - which she then proceeds to watch.
I'm sure one of you fine people will be able to identify the projector in use in the scene - as I said, the film was made in 1954.
Ali.
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on November 13, 2018, 04:48 PM:
I know it's better with pictures but sadly I haven't. A projector appears twice in the film : "The Blackkklansman".
Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on November 13, 2018, 04:49 PM:
I know it's better with pictures but sadly I haven't. A projector appears twice in the film : "The Blackkklansman".
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 17, 2018, 12:43 PM:
I'm a big fan of the original Star Trek series. Don't know how I missed the projector (Movieola) in this first season episode before now .
Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on December 17, 2018, 02:12 PM:
Not too sure if this ones already been on here but here is the Elmo used in the excellent John Carpenter sci fi film, Starman.
Not the best of pictures but the only one i could find,
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on December 17, 2018, 08:17 PM:
Yes Tom...already posted. Bill Brandenstein has put together a Master List of movies and TV shows already mentioned. Great job Bill!!!
http://8mmforum.film-tech.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=001619
[ December 18, 2018, 08:34 AM: Message edited by: Janice Glesser ]
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on December 17, 2018, 08:20 PM:
Janice...what is the title of the Star Trek episode? I am a fan too but I don't remember seeing that either.
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on December 17, 2018, 09:22 PM:
I remember this one:
Kirk and Co. has a little unintended time travel and winds up in the skies of 1960s Earth. They have an encounter with a US Air Force fighter and wind up beaming the pilot aboard after they destroy his plane. They also beam into an Air Force film lab to eliminate photographic evidence of the Enterprise's presence. Eventually they realize keeping the pilot will disrupt history and have to figure our a way to let him go. (More time travel!)
Title: "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"
Spock says "Poor photography..." (Everyone's a critic!)
Posted by Bill Phelps (Member # 1431) on December 18, 2018, 06:28 AM:
Thanks Steve. In keeping with the thread about VHS tapes I have the original series complete on VHS so I'm going to pull this one out and watch it. I do have one original Star Trek episode on 16mm but I can't remember the name of it. I may watch that one too
Edit- Dagger of the Mind is the 16mm episode I have.
Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on December 18, 2018, 07:15 AM:
I wanted to post this earlier but can no longer find a 'free' clip, but....
in the animated 'Tales from the far side' from Gary Larson, there is a segment where a dog watches a home movie of his dog wife who, he is filming her showing off playing around a bear trap, which ends with her getting her tail caught in the trap and captured by the hunter'...you have to understand 'far side' humour.
Anyways, it is a fantastic super 8 clip that lasts almost 2 or 3 minutes...I'll try to post it if i find the clip...
Here is a screengrab:
screengrab of far side super 8 machine
Also,
There is another scene where the 'bugs' are watching an in-flight movie...super 8...of a popular horror film. Can you guess the film? watch from 1:24 - 2:35 hilarious!!
more super 8- in flight movie
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on December 18, 2018, 02:56 PM:
I’d rather watch the vhs versions as suppose to the computer generated crap nowadays.
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on January 11, 2019, 11:19 AM:
This is from a 1992 Simpsons episode titled "Bart the Lover". The class is watching a black and white educational film titled "A World Without Zinc". (-A real Eye Opener!)
(I can't tell what kind of projector it is... )
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on January 23, 2019, 09:08 AM:
In this episode of Hazel a 16mm projector is shown- 
Posted by David Hardy (Member # 4628) on January 23, 2019, 11:31 AM:
I just saw that the film 1966 film Modesty Blaise has
a 16mm Bell and Howell 644 projector (or something like it)
in it .
The actress Monica Vitti turns it off.
Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on January 24, 2019, 01:03 PM:
'Cinema of our time' produced by yours truly full of 35mm projectors and one 70mm showing Batman filmed 30 years ago. Proud that Derann distributed my efforts as well as good old Perrys.
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on January 24, 2019, 02:03 PM:
Wow!
How is it possible that this thread has gotten this far without a mention of Lee's Cinema in Miniature?
-it is downright "projectorful"!
Many films have their moment on screen at CineSea, and we appreciate them all, but this is the only one I remember ever drawing applause.
(I guess it found its perfect audience...)
Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on January 24, 2019, 02:41 PM:
Bless you it means a great deal to know. 8mm is such a passion I just love it so much.
Posted by Melvin England (Member # 5270) on January 26, 2019, 05:11 AM:
Currently in the UK there is a fascinating programme showing on TV called "Back In Time For School" in which a group of youngsters experience school life in various decades. In episode 3, the 1950's, a 16mm projector is introduced as an aid to teaching.
Unfortunately, I didn't get the make or get screen shots.
What I cannot understand is the way the film was loaded onto the machine. The full spool was loaded on the back and the take up spool on the front. I am trying to work out how the film would run through the mechanism as it would somehow need to loop back after the film gate to the take up spool without cutting in front of the projected picture. Can anybody enlighten me, please?
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on February 06, 2019, 01:19 PM:
Here is an episode of bewitched from 1967 Darin is using a Bolex with sound attachments boy what they went through just to get sound.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on February 06, 2019, 01:47 PM:
That's Great Jim...a good find! All that gear just to have sound movies. It's hard to imagine that people actually had the patience to setup something like that...then again Samantha was a witch...she probably just wiggled her nose
I also saw a Bolex 18-5 in last weeks Fox's not-so-Live presentation of the musical Rent. If you are familiar with Rent you'll know the character Mark is taking 8mm film through out the play. Towards the end when he is playing the developed film back you see his little Bolex sitting on the table.
Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on February 06, 2019, 01:55 PM:
We have to give credit where credit is due!
-If they'd just wheeled in a silent machine most people would never have known the difference!
Posted by Barry Fritz (Member # 1865) on February 07, 2019, 02:05 PM:
Melvin, it may have been an early Kalart Victor projector. They had the take up reel in the front. Not uncommon for them to be used in schools. The were very kind to film.
Posted by Barry Fritz (Member # 1865) on February 07, 2019, 02:31 PM:
Melvin, it may have been an early Kalart Victor projector. They had the take up reel in the front. Not uncommon for them to be used in schools. The were very kind to film
EDIT: I have no idea how this double post happened. Admin, delete if possible.
[ February 10, 2019, 08:55 PM: Message edited by: Barry Fritz ]
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on February 22, 2019, 08:57 AM:
Here's Major Nelson and Jeannie watching movies in her bottle from I dream of Jeannie 1970
Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on April 12, 2019, 01:41 PM:
Just been watching my Blu-ray set of Department S and found this (I think silent 16mm) in "The Pied Piper of Hambledon".
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on September 04, 2019, 02:58 PM:
I just watched a 2015 movie called The Age of Adaline . Where a women born in 1908 never ages past her 20's due to a mysterious near death accident. Cast Blake Lively (as Adaline), Michiel Huisman, Harrison Ford, Ellen Bursteyn, and Kathy Baker.
Adaline as time goes by likes to watch films from her past.
[ September 04, 2019, 11:11 PM: Message edited by: Janice Glesser ]
Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on September 10, 2019, 06:35 PM:
That seems like an interesting film, never heard of it before...
Just found the trailer and the period look seems great. Might buy it.
Posted by Kenneth Horan (Member # 3) on September 10, 2019, 08:09 PM:
Brian Fretwell said: Just been watching my Blu-ray set of Department S and found this (I think silent 16mm) in "The Pied Piper of Hambledon".
Hi Brian, This is a 16mm sound Bolex S221.
Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on September 11, 2019, 02:44 AM:
Thanks it was one I didn't recognise. It turns up in two or three episodes used by different people in different locations.
Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on September 14, 2019, 01:56 PM:
Here is a real good entry from 'Pat and Mat' animated cartoons...long super 8 footage throughout:
Pat and Mat
Posted by Mathew James (Member # 4581) on September 25, 2019, 11:59 AM:
Another find:
National Film Board of Canada Film on Tourism
Tourist Go Home!
A funny film where Canadians are portrayed evil to dis-attract tourism in Canada...16mm projection throughout!!
Posted by Chris Smart (Member # 7022) on September 27, 2019, 02:56 PM:
Not a movie but here is an appearance in a new Video Game called Control. This is just a teaser. I wonder what projector it was modelled after.
https://youtu.be/F74LLDhAhhI?t=81
Posted by Nick Vermeirsch (Member # 4136) on September 27, 2019, 03:33 PM:
Looks like the Eumig 800 series to me
In the film "Le gendarme en balade" (1970) with Louis De Funes, the bolex SM8 appears when he shows a film to an old colleague.
And in the new introduction of the "Oggy and the cockroaches", an animated version of the Russian 16 mm projector "LOMO KINAP UKRAINE 4" is showed.
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on October 09, 2019, 09:06 AM:
Here's a scene from Midnight Cowboy about hour 20 minutes into the film where they go into a studio 54 like club and there are 2 16mm projectors showing films.
Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on October 23, 2019, 08:45 AM:
Here is an episode of The Monkees called "The Spy Who Came in from the Cool" from 1966 in which a microfilm was bought by Davy by mistake so they go undercover to catch the foreign spys. And 2 16mm projectors are shown.
Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on October 23, 2019, 11:38 AM:
Love it Jim! It's so much fun when you spot a projector in a movie or TV show. Nice find!
Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on October 23, 2019, 11:09 PM:
One quick shot in the trailer for the new horror film ANTLERS shows 16mm projection still used in schools!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rM5WnicOAE
Perhaps it is a period piece.
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