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Erwin Geeraerts
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posted March 06, 2010 05:04 AM

In an episode of the series Hercule Poirot. There is a screening of a movie with a 28mm Pathé Kok projector.

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Claus Harding
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posted March 29, 2010 12:12 AM

In the beautiful Wim Wenders film "Paris, Texas", the family memories are shown on a Super-8 machine (brand unknown.)
Dean Stockwell sits next to the backside of it, and when the film runs out, he does some sort of pantomime as if turning a knob on the back (!) of the projector....Hollywood..

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Greg Marshall
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posted March 29, 2010 10:11 PM

Opening scene of 'EVITA'.... a cinema in Buenos Aires. A shot of the booth and the 1930/1940's system being shut down to make that announcement.

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Guy Taylor, Jr.
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posted March 31, 2010 10:06 AM

"Memories of Me" with Billy Crystal. He is looking at some old home movies on super 8.

I have an airline optical sound print of this film.

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Gary Crawford
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posted March 31, 2010 11:06 AM

Just remembered another one....a key scene in that wonderful Hammer film, The Quatermass Experiment (Creeping Unknown in the U.S.) Quatermass and others watch a film of what happened to the ill fated crew of the Q-1, the first space ship Quatermass sends into space. You get to see part of the film lab where the film is processed...only about a hundred foot reel of 16mm. Don't know what projector it was.

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Douglas Meltzer
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posted April 04, 2010 05:38 PM

Excellent work, lads!

Another one is the William Castle film "The Tingler" which has a great scene in a movie theater.

Here's what we have so far:

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Absence of Malice
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Bachelor Party
Blast from the Past
Blow Out
Capricorn One
China Syndrome, The
Chinese Ring, The (Charlie Chan)
Cider House Rules, The
Cinema Paradiso
Columbo (TV Episode) "Forgotten Lady "
Criminal Minds (TV Episode)
CSI (TV Episode)
Death Ship
Desperately Seeking Susan
Dodgeball
Dressed to Kill
Enter the Dragon
Evita
Freaks and Geeks (TV Episode)
Get Carter (1971)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn
Gremlins
Hercule Poirot (TV Episode)
Hooper
How I Met Your Mother (TV Episode)
Italian Job, The
JFK
LA Confidential
Lost (TV Episode)
Lost Highway
Manhunter
MASH (TV Episode)
Memories of Me
Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Episode)
Mr. Bill (TV Segments)
Omega Man, The
Paris, Texas
Peeping Tom
Performance
Quatermass Experiment, The (Creeping Unknown)
Rebecca
Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine, the (Twilight Zone TV Episode)
Slumdog Millionaire
Smallest Show on Earth, The
Starman
Sunset Boulevard
Tingler, The
Up on the Roof
Waterboy, The
World's Fastest Indian, The

Doug

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Patrick Walsh
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posted April 04, 2010 09:40 PM

Here is a silent 16mm projector in use in THE ADDAMS FAMILY movie with Gomez and Uncle Fester are watching some old childhood films.
There is a black Eiki in the background in the theatre scene in the new version of THE LONGEST YARD.

a Bell and Howell 606 makes an appearence in the mini-series HAVEN, in the White House the president is viewing some war footage with the projector sitting on his desk.

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Lars-Goran Ahlm
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posted April 05, 2010 09:01 AM

There is also a projector in one of the recent Swedish Wallander films. It's a Eumig, not shure witch model. Wallander is sitting at a desk running the projector at the wall some 2 meters away, and the picture fills the wall from flor to ceiling. Ah, the wonders of makebelief in movies.

In a episode of the Austrian tv series "Kommissar Rex" one of the caracters are watching a film on a GS1200. It's almost ten years since I saw this, but I remember he watched the film frame by frame, so I guess it must be a Elmo, unless there is another projector with this capacity.

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Daniel Aveline
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posted April 05, 2010 04:29 PM

I remember seeing a 16mm projector in St Ives

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Lars-Goran Ahlm
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posted April 05, 2010 06:06 PM

I just remembered that in one of the Spencer Tracy/Katharine Hepburn films, I don't recall the title right now, they are looking at some home movies on 16MM.

And in 1993-94 they made six movies here in Sweden based on the novels by Maj Sjöwall/Per Wahlöö about the policeman Martin Beck. In the first of these, Roseanna, they are watching footage of a murder victim on a Elmo (atleast I think it was an Elmo, it's around 12-13 years since I saw these films). And in the following five films you can se the projector sitting on top of a bookshelf in Martin Becks office.

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James N. Savage 3
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posted April 06, 2010 06:15 PM

A forgotten movie from the 80's, "The Boy Who Could Fly". The family watches home movies on an ELMO, if I remember correctly. In fact, thats the ONLY thing I remember about that whole movie!

A more recent movie is "Butterfly Effect". In the last scene, Ashton K. uses a projector and home movies to "transport" him back in time.

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Douglas Meltzer
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posted April 14, 2010 07:27 PM

Just caught a bit of "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice". There's a B&H 16mm projector in the living room, with a film threaded up.

Doug

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Greg Marshall
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posted April 14, 2010 07:59 PM

I'm thinking some football training films were being shown in "Heaven Can Wait", 1978-Paramount, Warren Beatty. I'm recalling them being 16.

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Gary Crawford
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posted April 15, 2010 08:31 AM

Almost forgot this one.....in the great 1936 or so William Powell/Jean Arthur mystery, The EX MRS. BRADFORD, Powell has cameras placed at various points of a race track...and later in his apartment , he screens the edited film ...35mm...from a booth ..with a screen that comes down on the opposite wall... The film helps him tag the killer. His movie set up is really nice.

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Tom A. Pennock
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posted April 16, 2010 11:55 PM

In the movie "College Confidential" (Universal, 1960) Steve Allen (as a college professor) uses a 16mm Bolex S221 optical/magnetic projector to show a film. This projector was made in 1960 and was a new model then. The film was made the same year Bolex introduced this model. I used one of these units for about three years for a film society. The projector was built like a tank. Best of it's kind.

Also in the 1972 ABC "made for television" movie "That Certain Summer" Hal Holbrook uses a Kodak Super 8mm Instamatic movie projector to watch childhood movies of his son who was actor Scott Jacoby in the film.

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Joe Taffis
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posted April 18, 2010 02:31 PM

did anyone mention the end of MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, where they're watching the film?

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Douglas Meltzer
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posted April 22, 2010 01:31 PM

In "Love and Bullets" (available as a Walton digest), Charles Bronson gets to hang out with a 16mm friend.

Doug

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Douglas Meltzer
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posted October 16, 2010 04:42 PM

In The Abominable Dr. Phibes, Terry-Thomas can be found operating a hand cranked projector to screen a risque 16mm film.

That film got Terry's blood flowing only for the good doctor to come along and drain every last drop!

Doug

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Patrick McGrath
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posted October 16, 2010 06:52 PM

In the sequel to Godzilla, Gigantis The Fire Monster(or Gojira no Gyakushu-Godzilla's Counterattack [Wink]

) we see Dr. Yamane from the first film screen a 16mm film of Godzilla's rampage on Tokyo to the officials gathered in Osaka awaiting its impending arrival in their fair city.

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Guy Taylor, Jr.
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posted October 17, 2010 08:54 AM

"Full Moon in Blue Water" Little film directed by Peter Masterson starring Gene Hackman and Terri Garr. Main character in the story is depressed with the recent passing of his wife; he spends his time watching home movies of his late wife on Super 8.

This film was made in my home county of Galveston Texas.

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Brad Kimball
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posted October 17, 2010 09:12 AM

There's an "X-Files" episode called "Sunshine Days" where in one scene a psychiatrist is showing detectives old Super 8 Sound home movies on an Elmo.

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Joe McAllister
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posted October 17, 2010 03:51 PM

"Clash by Night" 1952 has scenes in the projection box where Robert Ryan works.
"Ruby" 1977 is set in a drive in theatre.
"The Blob" has scenes in a projection box.as
does"Terror" 1978.
"Dillinger is dead" has several scenes of the hero watching 16mm home movies.

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John W. Black
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posted October 17, 2010 11:06 PM

There is a B&H 16 machine in Quiz Show.

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Nick Field
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posted October 18, 2010 12:50 AM

Another one to add I've not seen this film in a long time,omen3 where the family are sat watching a film on their big screen and they even have their own projection room too.

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Joe McAllister
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posted October 18, 2010 06:03 AM

""On the Beat"
Norman Wisdom classic has a long sequence in a preview theatre where the hero has to watch 16mm movies on a "Peeping Tom" style B&H projectore.

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