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Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on May 19, 2013, 05:49 PM:

Any Super 8 or 16mm for that matter about the Battle of Britain? I seem to recall I had or rented one millions of years ago.

Thanks

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on May 19, 2013, 09:38 PM:

There have been a few documentaries released Vidar,apart from
the Walton release of "Reach for the Sky" and "Battle of Britain"
in opt. snd and colour cinemascope,which is in itself unusual.

Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on May 19, 2013, 10:37 PM:

BTW Vidar...I just watched a terrific BBC documentary called "The Real Battle of Britain". The actor Ewan McGregor and his brother Colin McGregor tell a day-by-day account with beautiful photos and arial footage of the fighter planes and interviews with a couple of the actual pilots who flew in the battle. In my younger days I flew single-engine land airplanes and this program brought back a lot of the feeling of being up in the air again [Smile]

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on May 20, 2013, 03:37 AM:

Vidar
Derann did put out a 200ft Super8 Black and White sound film called "The Battle Of Britain" a few years back.

If thats any help.

Graham.

Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on May 20, 2013, 05:24 AM:

Thank you! When you say a few years back, Graham, is that 1970-80's? I do believe the one I saw must have been the Walton release, I am fairly sure it was a Walton box, but not getting any younger. Janice, I bet that won't see a Super 8 release :-)

Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on May 20, 2013, 06:02 AM:

Vidar. Top of your list should be Capra’s ‘THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN’ which made it onto super 8 sound thanks to Collectors Club and fully complete at that. It shows the Royal Air Force and the fight against the Luftwaffe in detail and this was part of a series of films which I found pretty amazing.

3X400ft B&W Sound

Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on May 20, 2013, 06:28 AM:

Thank you, Lee! Searched some, but can not find any. Will be on the lookout.

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on May 20, 2013, 10:03 AM:

Hi Vidar, This is from the last Walton catalogue

Most of the UK companies had a selection of war films though.
A few titles off the top of my head:
"Malta Story"
"They Were Not Divided"
"Above Us The Waves"

Best Wishes.

David.

Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on May 20, 2013, 10:46 AM:

Thanks, I feel fairly sure it's the part 2 of this I've seen. Now to locate the 4 parts :-)

Anyone?

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on May 20, 2013, 12:44 PM:

This is no joke ...

A collector I know in the UK has an EXCEEDINGLY RARE super 8 SCOPE optical sound print of the Battle of Britian. I didn't even know they made scope super 8 optical, but I know this collector well, and he's not one to make up stories.

OSI

Posted by Keith Ashfield (Member # 741) on May 20, 2013, 01:18 PM:

Osi is absolutely correct. Below are screenshots from this "rarity". I too have never seen any other SCOPE optical prints on Super 8mm.

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

[ May 21, 2013, 03:33 AM: Message edited by: Keith Ashfield ]

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on May 20, 2013, 02:38 PM:

The Optical Scope prints were made for the new W-I-D-E Bodied planes.

The colour on "Battle Of Britain" looks great.

Posted by Hugh Thompson Scott (Member # 2922) on May 21, 2013, 08:10 PM:

As I mentioned at the beginning,it was unusual for a 'scope in
opt.snd.The chances are the copy in question belonged to the late
Tony Churcher of Supaspool fame, who was very proud of it.

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on May 22, 2013, 02:29 AM:

Vidar

Its listed in one of my Derann Super8 Catalogue, the one with "The Little Mermaid" on the front cover, so at a guess around possibly the late 1980s-early 1990s. I am pretty sure when Walton closed Derann got a number of there negative..so you could be right as to its origin being from Walton.

Graham.

Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on May 22, 2013, 03:17 AM:

Hi,

there are also some documentaries made of old newsreels, e.g. this one: http://www.super-8-hobby.de/rezent499.htm

Jörg

Posted by Lee Mannering (Member # 728) on May 22, 2013, 04:22 AM:

Vidar. I checked the archive and have a spare Blitz on Britain if its of help and think I have Dam Busters but may have to hunt for that. PM me.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on May 24, 2013, 12:18 PM:

ThanX 4 those shots Keith. I am so totally envious of that print!

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