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I have just received the final issue of “9.5” magazine no 192 . To my surprise there is a photo of me filming with my Lido camera on the Group boat trip at Arundal many years ago. I am mentioned in the article about wide screen filming as I later made a film in wide screen on a family holiday trip. It is truly amazing how long the club has survived. I now have every issue of the club magazine including the duplicated issues. I joined the club within weeks of its formation and made a great many friends over the years. Sadly most of them are long gone but I really think that Malcolm Cutmore deserves to be remembered as the one who has made the greatest contribution in maintaining the existence of the club for so long. A committee member right from the start and editor of 9.5 for more years that I can remember. Ken Finch.😊
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I agree that Malcolm has done a great job on the magazine. It's a pity that lack of material for publication has been the problem.
He lives 40 miles from me down the M5 in the same town as my two daughters, Bridgwater, so I have often called in to have a chat with him, but I've always wondered why he never collected films. -
Sad that it will be the last issue (I haven't received it, yet and will not this week since I will travel tomorrow, first to Paris, then to Spain). I'm still hoping some UK ninefivers will carry on, who knows ?Comment
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Maurice,
Malcolm did collect a few films mainly transport shorts on 16mm particularly IB tech prints of British Transport Films (BTF) and a few London Transport shorts most I saw we're in b/w. Also an excellent b/w short on Coal. These we're shown at the London meetings every now and then to supplement a feature. Malcolm did also buy the occasional 16mm British feature but for showing at the meetings and once shown he would sell them. He also made a few 9.5 amateur films earlier on and had a Pathe Europ for showing them at home.
Malcolm though was not a fan of Super 8 which is why we rarely showed S8 at the meetings preferring to show 9.5 and 16mm British films.
Graham SComment
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Thank you, Graham,
Perhaps Malcolm had disposed of his 16mm when I knew him in Somerset.Comment
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I bought Coasts of the Clyde from him, excellent colour on it. I think some other collectors were after some of his other BTF films he told me but I think he would only have sold them after the meetings ended and I'm not sure he had a 16mm projector, only rewinds.Comment
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Yes Sadly this was the Last Issue for 60 years hard work in 9.5mm film for the UK,
but there are still active groups in France and Spain for now.
http://cine9.5mm.free.fr/
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