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Topic: A Super Evening
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted August 13, 2006 10:31 PM
After reading some very interesting posts lately,it prompted me to run some film the other night. I started with a 800ft reel of extracts from Fantasia starting with the trl, Soundtrack demo, Pastoral Symphony, Dance of the Hours, and finishing with The Sorcerer's Apprentice. I enjoyed it that much I ran it a few more times, although I have been mucking around with super 8 for a few years now, I am still amazed over the quality that can be achieved from that small frame, my second 800ft reel The Grasshopper and the Ants 1934, The Last Battleship, Tom and Jerry Tee for Two, Disney Motor Mania, and finishing with a very interesting short Romney Hythe and Dymchurch railway. One thing I have been doing is adding the Mr Bean intro the do's and dont's of visiting the cinema at the start of a film programme, I removed it from begining of Spirit Of America,a 200 footer Derann released a few years ago. I finished the evening with some films I bought back in the 70s Mickey Mouse The First Fifty Years silver addition, slightly faded but you would hardly notice it, Evening with Lady and the Tramp a beautiful extract, and finishing the night with one of my all time favourite The Dwarfs Dilemma, still with exellent colour after all those years well that was my night at the movies. two other exellent extracts from Fantasia worth getting from Derann are The Nutcracker Suite, and Night on Bald Mountain, well this post is not meant to be a film review just a ramble as to what I watched the other night, and I hope to read what you like to watch when your wintry nights set in and the projector comes out or is it already?
Graham. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm
Posts: 2629
From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted August 13, 2006 10:41 PM
Graham,
what a great post. Thanks for sharing your impromptu cine evening program with us. This pretty much sums up what super-8 is all about... just having fun at the movies, and enjoying unique films as they were shown back in the day - some of which you couldn't even get on DVD (or would have to be a very experienced disc jockey to be able to show in the same manner, anyhow). Pure, unadultered cinema, with no electronic wizardry to replace the magic borne of film.
BTW - as for me, my home theater installation is permanent - and finally complete, as I have just today routed a 50ft audio cable along the ceiling from the Elmo all the way to the screen (and behind it) where it connects to the main amplifier and stereo speakers. What more, I got my scope lens to fit into the bracket, despite the fact that bracket has a 52mm diameter and the lens only has a 43mm rear barrel. (Turns out the *center* part of the lens is just about 52mm large.)
This coming fall/winter, life will be good indeed. ![[Cool]](cool.gif)
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Call me Phoenix. *dusts off the ashes*
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