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Topic: What Films did you show last night?
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Gerald Santana
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1060
From: Cottage Grove OR
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted September 05, 2011 12:20 PM
Dino,
Thanks for your tips and appreciate your contribution to help others become interested in public screenings. Your screen shots are of major inspiration and hope that some people will find obscure films significantly more appealing than the latests Hollywood release in the years to come.
This weekend was the first in a series of programmed screenings. On Friday, there was again, only one person in attendance! But the bright side is that the person who was there gave me a lot of tips on how to promote around town and $10 cash from his wallet to keep doing this! I was in disbelief and thought he was going for a business card! We both saw:
42nd St. (Berkeley) Warner Bros. -- a Standard 8mm/Sound extract. The print was nice, with good focus and contrast. The sound is always out of sync on my Kodak Sound 8 but, it still works in many ways like those Americom titles with a record that ALWAYS goes out of sync. Mind-bending!
Summer of ‘42 (Mulligan) Warner Bros. -- A faded TV print, with a cyan filter, it is still watchable. I think it also added to the feel of the movie with toned down colors. I'm still looking for an LPP theatrical version, but this one will do until then. "I hope someone invades this dopey island!"
On Saturday, we doubled our audience with TWO people in the audience for:
Saturday Night Fever w/ Trailer (Badham) Marketing Film -- Still good color on this Kodak SP feature version that still has blues and reds. The scenes in the nightclub are amazing. After the film, we talked about how iconic those images remain with us. The drama in the film is a bit on the melodramatic side but, the lines are really funny. This is defiantly a repeatable film for me.
Last night on Sunday these were in the mix:
A Trip to the Moon (G. Melies) Blackhawk Films -- Good contrast, amazing music added by Blackhawk and an unforgettable curiosity!
Star Wars (G. Lucas) Ken Films -- Kodak SP version, "Yeah...We did it!"
The Empire Strikes Back (I. Kershner) Ken Films -- Kodak SP, Nothing like the Imperial AT AT Walkers going down in flames! Enough said.
I planned on screening Footlight Parade at 4:30 on the same day and had six people in attendance leave after "Empire". ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) I stuck around until 4:45 and when nobody showed up, I went home to have dinner with my family. This is a great film, one of my favorites and I should reschedule for an evening show later into the year.
I finished the night with more Sound 8mm that I got from another forum member.
-This is Baseball (Castle Films)
-The Tell Tale Heart (Animated with narration by James Mason)
- and several Hollywood variety shorts.
A fun weekend overall!
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http://lostandoutofprintfilms.blogspot.com/
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Gerald Santana
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1060
From: Cottage Grove OR
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted September 18, 2011 02:23 PM
Hi Greg,
I have to work on the possibility of a "Drive-In" of 'Bike-In" for my screenings out here in the Bay Area. In the meantime, it's indoors for now and last night as promised was Interiors by Woody Allen on 16mm with photography by Gordon Willis.
Back home and later in the evening, we had more films on Super 8. An unexpected box of films showed up after waiting for many months. We were still very excited to see many of the titles inside. Thanks to forum member David Ullom for completing this order -- it was a big one. We had a friend over last night and she picked them all. We screened:
The Cat Concerto 200' Tom and Jerry cartoon from MGM, so not the best color but, a very funny one. It won the 1947 Oscar for Best Short Subject.
An Evening with the Lady and the Tramp 200' Disney excerpt from the film features two very cute dogs finding love. The short still had good color.
The Prince and the Dragon This 200' Disney short is one of the best excerpts around. If you can find it with good color, you'll never forget it.
Popeye Meets Sinbad the Sailor 400' print from Niles Film Prod. still has fair color and good sound. I wish I had more of them on Super 8.
Escape from Astragard 200' excerpt from Island at the Top of the World has very good color on Fuji film stock. It is also adapted scope with great special effects. Highly recommended.
Fame This 2 x 400 MGM digest works very well with great music and a terrific cast. There are many amazing surprises in this one, also highly recommended.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show At the stroke of midnight, this went on and I have to say it is one of the best digests I've seen. More on this 400' version from 20th Century Fox later, in 8mm reviews.
North by Northwest Always leave them with a cliffhanger! The 400' MGM digest has many great sequences from the Hitchcock classic. It still has good color, a great cast, and good editing.
It was a long night but, very exciting to see many of these titles for the first time.
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