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Topic: Would a sealed copy of 8mm film retain its colors?
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Winbert Hutahaean
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Posts: 5468
From: Nouméa, New Caledonia
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted March 23, 2017 06:56 PM
quote: So I assume all the 8mm films from 1982+ are Super 8 with sound. I should be searching for these keywords and screenshots of the movies
Yes, after 1982 there were only few companies such Derann, Red Fox, CHC that still printed 8mm, and films from that period will be on LPP/Low fade stock. Be familiarize with their cover style and you could snap some films from these companies cheap. On that periode, art work cover were no longer the point of selling, they were usually printed by photo copy machine or even just white blank boxes.
Some sellers (non collectors) could think they were not that precious compared with films from 1970s era which would be more colorful, cover wise. And this means you are lucky!
quote: Winbert, too bad they didn't make portable 35mm projectors.
Robert, they actualy made. There is a discussion made in a sister of this forum here: Protable 35mm projector
But imagine a full feature of 35mm will take 4 times larger than 8mm.
This is a picture I get from the net:
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 24, 2017 12:28 PM
These folks "taint' kidding, Gilbert!
It's amazing what deals you can scoop up on ebay, AND have them be low fade prints! I have been buying a number of rare cartoons from a certain ebayer, and every single print I have bought from him has perfect color, and these are on 400ft reels, two cartoons per reel, approximately 6.00 dollars each, and these are Derann prints, and even the ones that aren't (A Universal 8 Woody cartoon, "Musical Moments from Chopin"), on kodak SP, which usu8ally has fade by now, is absolutely unfaded, totally pristine, so yep, awesome bargains out there!
you can actually build a pretty decent collection of super 8 low fade prints if you just watch ebay and elsewhere on a constant basis. Now, if you want the low fade super 8 features, as a general rule, you WILL pay a good deal more, but to see it on that big screen is always something else!
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 25, 2017 11:39 AM
The way i have always used is either one way or another ...
when it comes to ebay, i'll save in my purchased film lists, the item, so that i can click on that old auction, and on the top, it will usually list (as to where it was found) "Film Stock", then, you simplly click on that, and it will bring up on the left, all the different film stocks ebay lists, 35MM, 16MM, 8MM and Super 8MM, then you simply click those buttons on the left and WHIZ BANG!!
You're right there!
Otherwise, just type in, in that top box, "Film Stocks" and make sure in the box just to the right, that it states "all categories" as, sometimes, some films get "lost in translation", due to strange listings of them on ebay.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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