8mm Forum: Unidentified super 8 film

»	8mm Forum » 8mm Forum » Unidentified super 8 film

UBBFriend: Email this page to someone!

Author

Topic: Unidentified super 8 film

Nick Vermeirsch
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 110
From: West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2014

posted September 08, 2018 09:37 AM

Hello to all!

I have received among some other films a super 8 film, it starts without titles and i don't know it. I would like to know the title and distributor from this film.. Does someone recognize it? Duration about 9 minutes in super 8.

Thanks! Nick.

| IP: Logged

Charles Foyle
Junior
Posts: 6
From: Florence, SC, USA
Registered: Sep 2018

posted September 08, 2018 11:14 AM

Your film is The Picnic Panic by Ub Iwerks--a Comicolor Cartoon from the Rainbow Parade series.

It was made in 1935. That coffeepot character is famous today as "Elder Kettle" from the hand-animated, infamously difficult videogame Cuphead released in 2017.

Interesting find! I always liked Iwerks' style.

| IP: Logged

Panayotis A. Carayannis
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 969
From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008

posted September 08, 2018 03:19 PM

Not an Iwerks Comicolor.It is a Van Beuren "Rainbow Parade" in Technicolor,directed by Burt Gillett and Tom Palmer.Issued by Geluid/Kleur Tekenfilm,a company from Hollandfrom Holland that issued many rare cartoons in exellent copies and with horribly bad box covers.

| IP: Logged

Maurice Leakey
Film God

Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted September 08, 2018 03:29 PM

The title is "A Picnic Panic".
Click below to view.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24i689oWkjY

--------------------
Maurice

| IP: Logged

Dominique De Bast
Film God

Posts: 4486
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jun 2013

posted September 08, 2018 04:24 PM

Panayotis, from what I remember from my Dutch lessons, geluid means sound, kleur means colour and tekenfilm means cartoon.

--------------------
Dominique

| IP: Logged

Panayotis A. Carayannis
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 969
From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008

posted September 09, 2018 11:07 AM

Dear Dom,(and the others!) [Eek!]

Please,forgive my ignorance.This company does not print a logo and ,I repeat,has the ugliest and most horrific box art.The specific cartoon's dutch title,which I blackened,is PICK NICK!

| IP: Logged

Iman Yahya
Film Handler

Posts: 65
From: London, UK
Registered: Mar 2017

posted September 10, 2018 05:25 AM

Panayotis,

Do you happen to know whether this Holland company issued any more cartoons from the Rainbow Parade series? I have a mute
unstriped print of THE PICNIC PANIC and a sound print of PARROTVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Wondering whether there were any others released?

I also have a Columbia cartoon (SWING MONKEY SWING) and 2 Terrytoons (PICNIC WITH PAPA and JAMES HOUND) that I believe are Dutch in origin.

| IP: Logged

Mathew James
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 740
From: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Dec 2014

posted September 10, 2018 07:13 AM

I love how they mix real footage with cartoon!
Here is a list of the van beuren cartoons!

https://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/Other_Studios/V/Van_Beuren_Studios/Rainbow_Parade/

Nice little film to own!

--------------------
--
Cheers,
Matt 📽

| IP: Logged

Panayotis A. Carayannis
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 969
From: Athens,Greece
Registered: Jul 2008

posted September 10, 2018 12:56 PM

Iman-I don't know of other "Rainbow Parade" cartoons from Holland. I wish I did! "Neptune's Nonsence", "Molly Moo Cow and the Indians" and "Toonerville Trolley" were available from Blackhawk. The company may have been Top Film,which was the successor of Real Film but I am not sure. Let's hope somebody will unearth a catalogue.

| IP: Logged

Nick Vermeirsch
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 110
From: West-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2014

posted September 12, 2018 07:06 AM

Hello to all!
Thanks for all your help, you are wonderful. I have seen, on the "film market" in Holland, several times the underneath boxes (one which i own), also with the typical "artwork" on it, these are 120 meter reels with each times 3 cartoons on it (for i know). The "Picnic Panic" one was the third of such reel, with two other German cartoons (Dick und Doof cartoon (Larry Harmon)) and Lucky Luke in excellent colour and sound.

Each "cartoon film reel" has a title, mine ("the rice of hen") has nothing to do with the content of the cartoons anyway [Wink]

The other box of TOP FILM that i have is a documentary film of Hawaïan sports (Carl Dudley, 1951), also with excellent colour, and - rather rare here in Belgium (and the Netherlands): bilangue subtitles: Dutch and French (in our cinemas here in Belgium, it it still the case for a lot of movies).

| IP: Logged

All times are Central

Printer-friendly view of this topic

UBB.classic^TM 6.3.1.2