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Topic: How many of us collect only Super 8mm?
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted May 31, 2017 01:19 PM
Andrew ...
Yes! About 5 or so years ago, I and my partner in "GIOSI Films" ( a fine fellow by name of Gian), released our one and only (so far), super 8 release, "Saturday Morning Madness". We only had a print run of approxixmately 30 or so prints total. It was a 16 minute, 400ft reel of animated cereal commercials from the mid 60's thru 1982. We even did some color restoration on some of the earlier ones that had a little color fade.
To top all that off, i actually made a 20 or more page (can't remember) publication giving the history of all the cartoon characters in the super 8 release, along with some others as well.
It was, most certainly, a labor of love!
... and yes, it was on low fade film stock! (yay!)
I was amazed that we were able to get such good results from ex-TV 16MM prints of the ads. It was really sharp!
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted June 01, 2017 11:51 AM
Hey! I'm glad to hear that you have that write-up, Bill. I was quite proud of that reel. It took a long time just collecting all the commercials for that, though I wish that I had better quality prints of the Cocoa Puffs and Trix ads. It's getting fairly hard to find any good color 16MM commercials these days.
If I do another commercials reels, it will only be if I can make a collection of the "classics' you know, the Oscar Mayer ad, a Pillsbury doughboy ad an some of the classic characters, (Mr. Whipple, for instance) in good color prints. These days, only prints that were saved on specific stocks have weathered well. Lets face it, TV 16MM commercials were like super 8 optical sound features, they were only supposed to be used for a very short time.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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