8mm Forum: What Did You Want In November 1978?

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Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on April 11, 2014, 01:19 PM:

Currently scanning my film magazines and I thought I would put a link to the advertisements from the November 1978 issue of Film Making.

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on April 11, 2014, 04:17 PM:

For me David, it was an Agfa Sonector LS from Dixons for that very Christmas aged 11! I got it along with my very first sound film, Disney's Greatest Chases paid for over 38wks on Kays catalogue by my wonderful parents! Just the best ever Christmas present!!

I still have the projector to this day and it still works really well. Now hows that for build quality!

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on April 11, 2014, 04:44 PM:

Stuff was made to last years ago, or most was. There was still some rubbish about though.

Do you still have the Disney's Greatest Chases. I watched mine a couple of weeks ago and its still got good colour. A big plus its also very repeatable too. I do seem to recall Keys selling films for a time. At full RRP.

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on April 11, 2014, 04:54 PM:

I don't have the film sadly David as I sold it with all the other commercial package films I had in 1993 to Derann. I gave up the hobby for a time thinking I had seen the light with the advent of Digital projectors and Dolby surround amplifiers at the time. I was wrong of course, and deeply regret not keeping hold of the films that had sentimental value to me given how I had come by them.

Kays catalogues and the likes used to offer quite a range of the 400ft digests back then but as you quite correctly point out, none were cheap and I am sure back then that the Disney print was around £40! probably my Dads wage for that week back then God bless him!!

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on April 12, 2014, 03:25 PM:

1978, just wanted a job

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on April 12, 2014, 03:45 PM:

In November 1978 I was 16 years old. What did I want?

Driver's license, car, girlfriend...the order didn't matter a huge amount!

That is the year I got into film, but it was strictly silents. Until sound showed up years later keeping a film budget was pretty easy.

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on April 12, 2014, 04:07 PM:

November 1978.... [Roll Eyes]

....cant remember 1978 [Big Grin]

Posted by Clay Smith (Member # 4122) on April 12, 2014, 04:51 PM:

22 years old, living on my own and on a budget. I didn't own a TV but I did own a film projector and I was watching silent features borrowed from the Mountain View CA Public Library. (For which I will always be grateful)

Posted by Terry Lagler (Member # 1110) on April 12, 2014, 06:59 PM:

Excellent David, thanks for scanning those.
Cheers
Terry

Posted by Joe Vannicola (Member # 4156) on April 12, 2014, 10:38 PM:

In 1978 I was collecting trailers and renting 16mm films from my local library. I showed them on my 16mm Bell and Howell 285 projector, which I still have to this day and is in excellent running condition.

Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on April 13, 2014, 03:59 AM:

How lucky you in America were, renting films from your local library. I have a few I bought over the years that are ex-library copies. A couple were from Miami bought from Famous Films.

Hiring for me in the UK was by post, which would be the same for many others unless you lived near to one of them and you could collect from them.

Here in the UK back then they might have had LP records or cassette tape, my local library does rent dvd and cd's although a lot are closing now due to cuts.

Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on April 13, 2014, 04:56 AM:

I was constantly wanting the Star Wars film and also a daylight viewer

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on April 13, 2014, 11:33 AM:

I was lucky enough to get a second hand copy of the 200ft extract from the blockbuster in January 1979.

I got it from Jubilee Film Services in Ashton U Lyne close to Manchester.The shop was owned by a guy called Cyril who opened the shop in the Queens Silver Jubilee year of 1977, hence the name.

I found it tucked away in a bottom corner of the bargain basement bin in front of the counter (basically all second hand films).

It was quite a find back then, as being a fairly new release of the best film of the time, people were very reluctant to sell anything Star Wars.

I have to say, being born and bred in Manchester where film shops and supplies of package movies were pretty much none existent, then if it had not been for Cyril's shop, I may have never wanted a sound projector for the previous Christmas.

I just wish I had been born in Dudley as I would have been in my element visiting Derann whenever possible.I had to wait until many years later for my first visit there after I passed my driving test and got my first car in 1985.

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on April 13, 2014, 12:02 PM:

David

Thanks for all the great scans. I am printing them all.

PatD

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on April 13, 2014, 12:18 PM:

I recently obtained a large batch of the Movie Maker and Film Making magazines, but from all the ones I have, there are no test reports on either a Bauer T610 or any of the Beaulieu range of projectors. Does David or anyone else on here happen to know if any of these machines were ever covered as a test report?

I would love a print off of any of these please if they exist [Smile]

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Posted by David Ollerearnshaw (Member # 3296) on April 13, 2014, 02:43 PM:

Bauer T610 was according to super8datbase 1978 as was the Beaulieu.

Currently scanning Movie Maker October 78. This has the annual projectors round-up.

I'll have it finished in a few days and if they mention those projectors I'll post them on here.

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on April 13, 2014, 02:51 PM:

Great stuff David, but to get anything at all on the Beaulieu stereo model it will be in 1981 or even 1982 editions. I have seen when it first started to be retailed in some of my 1981 editions, mainly in the Perry's advertisements of the day. My copies become very sporadic after 1981 and a lot of the magazines I purchased were between 1977 and 1981 as to me, this was the time-frame I was most interested in as the equipment became more and more sophisticated just prior to the dreaded video cassette recorder era.

Posted by Michael O'Regan (Member # 938) on April 13, 2014, 02:58 PM:

Nice stuff, David. Thanks for those.
At 16 in 1978, I was more interested in guitars than film. I already had an Agfa Movector silent dual gauge projector and could only dream about a sound projector, never mind 16mm. However, the following year, I hit the big time, landing a job as a projectionist in our local cinema - 35mm.

[Smile]

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on April 13, 2014, 03:29 PM:

Lucky you Michael! Dream job back then of course, just no longer I imagine. After all, do you even need a projectionist nowadays or just a computer interface controller?

[ April 15, 2014, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: Andrew Woodcock ]

Posted by Trevor Adams (Member # 42) on April 13, 2014, 03:41 PM:

I was 43 and had a great deal with the local hospital.They would rent a 16mm feature to show on Friday night. I was able to uplift it after the screening,take it home and show it on Saturday night!On my Kodak Pageant projector.Returning the film on Sunday morning.Never had it better [Wink]

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on April 23, 2014, 12:54 PM:

I was 10 in 1978. I lost recently several members of my family, including my dad (who past away four weeks ago), so I am a little bit back in the memories of my childhood at the present time. So many people lost since 1978...

Posted by Maurizio Di Cintio (Member # 144) on April 25, 2014, 06:39 PM:

I'm sorry for you, Dominique. May our hobby help to give you a little relief.

In 1978 I was only 8 and I had just broken my Cinemax K6's claw pin for the second time, after my father had managed to fix it in a rather fancy (but effective) way. It was total plastic, a design flaw nonetheless (certainly the only one in this machine???? [Mad]

)

So, unexperienced as I was at that time, the best possible projector was (forgive me) the Gioca Royal Sound (the one with silver finish and 400' reels), which cost Lit 80.000 (about £ 26.50) and of course I had to wait in order to save that 'huge' amount of money. Luckily at some point I decided not to buy it and a few years later dad bought a complete set with camera projector, screen and several accessories. Not too bad...

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on April 25, 2014, 08:14 PM:

Happy days Maurizio! Sounds like you had the Italian version of childhood as myself even though it would seem, you are the baby of the bunch Ha ha! Though my Dad always provided superbly for the family,I have to say, it was very much all down to me from an early age to be the repairer of all things electro/ mechanical!

My heartfelt sympathy goes out to Dominique having recently lost his father, I, like a lot of us nowadays, very much know exactly how that feels and I can only ever empathize in these terrible circumstances
Memories are always a great comfort I find at these times as it is only through the memories we have that we can truly gauge the insurmountable loss that we feel and therefore make sense of it all. [Frown]

Posted by Trevor Adams (Member # 42) on April 26, 2014, 12:03 AM:

I might as well toss in this one!
In the early 1980's an issue of MOVIEMAKER carried a report on a 3D Super 8mm viewer-I think it might have been at the German Expo.Anyrate,there was a picture of a kid looking into a sort of horizontal Viewmaster.The gadget was made by APOLLO of Hong Kong and most of the 3D films featured boxing matches.I know,I've asked about this thing previously! [Wink]

It would be great if someone could come up with which MM issue it was.A boxed "Mickey Mouse the First 50 years" to the researcher that finds this viewer!Trevor
PS just looked at my 2009 post on this topic.Seems it could have been a Photokina article in the late 70s.....

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on April 26, 2014, 01:44 AM:

Thank you for the kind words expressed here and via private messages I received from members of this fantastic forum.

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