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Topic: The BFCC 50th.
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John Clancy
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1954
From: Cornwall
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted October 27, 2005 11:04 AM
Paul, Ben brought all the hardware along in a van. It's not an insignificant undertaking moving such equipment - even the Super 8 projectors don't take well to being taken into the Ealing Town Hall. I suppose it's all the knocks they inadvertantly get en route and being put up onto the stands etc.. So he took a heck of a risk with what must be extremely valuable. And it's not the first time he's gone to all that effort for us all either.
Doug, with regards to the DVD Keith and I have just been discussing putting more information up onto the web site. He's going to send me over scans of lots of the stuff that's in the video and I'll put something together. This release covers the hobby up to the mid-eighties approximately but the next part will still have to go back and cover other aspects of the years already featured. There's loads of package movie box covers, projectors (shown running), Super 8 film clips (actually taken from Super 8 but you think you're watching something lifted off a dvd), interviews with the people who made the hobby happen (Perry's Movies, Super 8 cut-down film editors, original organizers of the BFCC's etc.) and just about everything else any self-respecting film collector would want to know about.
I've watched this disc 5 times already and I've got a yen to watch it again. The next part is going to include the 50th BFCC so lots of filming was done on Saturday as a result.
Oh forgot, anyone who enjoyed the footage on Saturday featuring the early days of the BFCC, much of it is on the disc.
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British Film Collectors Convention home page www.bfcc.biz. The site is for the whole of the film collecting hobby and not just the BFCC.
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Sam James
Expert Film Handler
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From: London
Registered: Oct 2005
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posted October 27, 2005 03:05 PM
I'm very wet behind the ears regarding this business and consequently attended the BFCC on Saturday without talking to anybody for fear of having my head forced down the lav by the "old boys".
Have owned an S8 camera for a few years and only found this forum accidentally whilst searching for an alternative to the tired old Eumig silent projector I bought "as seen" from the local camera store.
Oh, how my horizons have broadened and, unfortunately, how my bank balance has suddenly appeared woefully inadequate.
I'm an actor and a projector was only ever a means to an end - to view the results of my filmic dabbling. I never imagined that one could watch "real films" in one's own house. Of course there's "home cinema" or whatever the dvd salesmen (or women) want to call it, but that simply is not cinema.
I discovered you lot and, thanks to Barry Attwood, learnt about the imminent shenanigans in Ealing. Apologies to our friends from across the Pond, but after a bacon butty and a brief flit through the Saturday paper, the prospect of driving all the way over to Ealing (we live in S.E. London) seemed less than attractive. Nevertheless, I'd said I'd go and with the promise of a payback trip to Kew, was able to convince my better half to accompany me.
Didn't talk to anybody. Didn't stay for more than a couple of hours. For the first half an hour thought that the bring and buy section was the whole thing as, after you'd bought a ticket, that room seemed to be the only direction to head in. Then discovered the projection room and the main sales levels.
Was absolutely bowled over.
Thank god we (intentionally) took next to no cash. Our first foray into the world of Super 8 projection was, as a try out, a couple of 400ft second hand edits - American in Paris and Sweet Charity - and a compilation of Chaplin and Laurel and Hardy shorts. Why, on earth, do the Germans refer to them as Dick and Doof?
Because of prior engagements we missed the stuff that you're all excited about (M&C, the converted GS, the 70mm etc..) but believe you me, simply the very basic Xenon "Jaws" show got us hooked. That evening, we sat down in our knocked-through lounge (maybe 30ft long) and watched our new acquisitions. The screen was too small and will have to be replaced. The Eumig died (on the final rewind) and will have to be replaced. Both of our necks hurt from looking up at the fantastic image in front of us. These we cannot replace.
So thank you to all involved. Next time I will be staying longer, plucking up the courage to speak to some of you and, of course, spending a whole lot more. When we're bankrupt, our solicitors will be contacting you.
One question: In the bring and buy area there were two GS1200s for sale. One was a series 3 that had been overhauled, selling at £795. The other was an earlier version and had no price tag. (You will not believe how impressive I thought I sounded as I explained to my partner that the only sure way to differentiate was the directional pointing of the loop lever - thank you, Kevin.) Did either of them sell and for what price?
Dear Santa, I WANT A PROJECTOR!!!!!
Thanks again to you all.
Sam
P.S. Derann has a trailer for Zulu for sale. Does anybody know of or own a complete print of this, maybe my fav, film?
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Sam James
Expert Film Handler
Posts: 114
From: London
Registered: Oct 2005
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posted October 27, 2005 04:57 PM
Tom,
Dunno how the word can be spread to the everyone, but I'm doing my damnedest to bore the pants off my pals about it.
Once I've donned my black roll-neck, evaded the security cameras, avoided the pressure sensitive floor and beguiled the impressionable receptionist in order to relieve the Bank of Monte Carlo of its gold bullion (dreamer, me?), I intend to purchase a top-notch sound projector, an enormous screen, an anamorphic lens (pending advice) and a pop-corn making machine in order to stage my own little Cinema Paradiso in Charlton (S.E.London).
This year 300-ish visitors to the BFFC, next year - the world.
Sam
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