What 16mm Films Did You See Last Night?

[Douglas Meltzer]

Started with Georgie Fame singing The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.



Then came a pretty LPP print of 1979's Avalanche Express, the brilliant Robert Shaw's last film, with Lee Marvin, Linda Evans, Maximilian Schell, Horst Bucholz and former NY Jets quarterback Joe Namath!






Doug

[Chip Gelmini]

June 16 2020

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[Janice Glesser]

I screened my B&W print of Picnic (1955) that I just received. It's in very good condition. A few jump cuts in the audio (nothing major)... minimal lines, clear and loud audio. The original movie was in color, but all the 16mm color prints I've seen are very faded. I'll take a nice B&W over a faded color print any day.

This is the famous "Moonglow" scene.

[Janice Glesser]

I watched the first 2 reels of Baby Boom (1987) last night. It doesn't start getting dark until around 8:30pm now and by 10pm I had to call it a night. I'll finish the 3rd reel tonight.

[Janice Glesser]

Last night I watched The Goodbye Girl. I have two prints of this 1977 Oscar-winning movie. One full-length fading print on two 2000ft reels and an edited/censored LPP version on three 1600ft reels. I actually watch the fading copy more often using filters. I know this movie so well and am annoyed when scenes are missing and lines are changed.

Ending Credits: https://photos.app.goo.gl/SJAvZCitVq2CaVDH7

[Mitchell Dvoskin]

Last night I watched a lost Twilight Zone episode, The After Hours. Lost to me, not the world. When I sold off all my 16mm Twilight Zones last year, I could not find this one episode. I knew it was hiding in my basement somewhere, and yesterday I found it lurking as a spacer between two 35mm reels.

I also watched a 16mm IB Technicolor (letterboxed) print what was originally a scope theatrical short, Disneyland USA from 1956. The short was part of Disney's People and Places series, and for some reason they dedicated a complete 40 minute short to an amusement park in Anaheim California. Can't imagine why. Actually, it was quite nostalgic and interesting, a tour though Disneyland shortly after it opened. Many of the attractions are still there, other were long gone before I first visited Disneyland in 1966. Does the section of Disneyland then called "Storybook Land" still exist. I have no memory of it or any of it's attractions, but by the time I first got there I was probably too old to be interested.

[Janice Glesser]

Tonight I watched one of my favorite 1980 movies... 9 to 5. Great cast with Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda, and Dabney Coleman is brilliant as the smarmy "sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot" boss. Great fun!

[Janice Glesser]

Austin Snell WELCOME!

[Austin Snell]

First time posting here!

I watched "Just Before Dawn" - a really cool pacific northwest slasher flick on 16mm.

[Martin Davey]

How to play football (Disney Goofy short)
Reel of 1960s American health adverts (some NTSC scans, some film shoots)
All the Queens Horses (Post Office film)
Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land (Disney 25min short, part SP, part great colour unknown stock)

[Dominique De Bast]

Paper Chasse, an American film from 1973. Soundtrack is in English with French and Dutch subtitles (which means it's a copy made for the Belgian market).

[Martin Davey]

Thanks Janice. I tend to avoid pink prints. Interestingly I found the 16mm far easier to photograph than the super 8! Donald and the Wheel is one of my favouite prints in my collection.

[Janice Glesser]

Martin Davey Great colored prints!

[Martin Davey]

All on 16mm
Astronut (Home movies)
Donald Duck (Donalds lucky day) IB Tech
Tom and Jerry (Smarty cat) LLP
The Symphony Orchestra (Encyclopedia Britannica Films)
Donald and the Wheel IB Tech

[Patrick Walsh]

I watch a digest version of Lord Grade's JESUS OF NAZARETH, great colour but scratched up a bit being an ex church rental.