What 16mm Films Did You See Last Night?

[Tom Johnson]

Watched Bride of Frankenstein and Son of Frankenstein. Nice prints that I've had for years. Then went to look at 16mmfilmtalk.com to look for more to buy but found the site down. Anyone have news?

[Dominique De Bast]

Au fil des ondes. A French film in which appear many stars from the '50s. It's a kind of documentary about the post war French public radio. It seems that m'y cppy is a digest.

[Lee Mannering]

Hope a afternoon show qualifies for this thread :-)

24th Dec afternoon show to remember JIMMY CLITHEROE and BERYL FORMBY who left this world this day.

Just making sure everything is in order for our afternoon film event where we show a couple of 16mm features to member Jim and Beryl two loved stars here.

Derann print of OFF THE DOLE 1935 and MUCH TOO SHY 1942

Jimmy at his Blackpool home.

Beryl a champion clog dancer and wife/manager to George Formby




I'm proud to own the Formby 16mm home movies and its clear to see they were very much in love.
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[Oliver Feld]

Yesterday I screened the „new“ used treasures I‘ve bought one week ago: „Wallace & Gromit - The Wrong Trouser“, „The Snowman“ & „The Red Balloon“ which were amazing colorful and 95 % scratch-free.

[Janice Glesser]

I watched reel 1 & 2 last night of Max Dugan Returns (1983) and will finish the 3rd reel tonight. Great LPP print and a fun watch. Jason Robards is a treat in this screen play by Neil Simon that also features Marsha Mason, Donald Sutherland, and a very young Matthew Broderick.

[Steve Klare]

I watched Blake (National Film Board of Canada)

There was a time of my life where I didn't do a lot of projected film: I was in college and then I was dating, and then I got married and had a house. During this time I came to like this Canadian filmmaker named Bill Mason. He made a lot of really great nature films including many about canoeing, which has been a passion of mine since I was a teenager.

When I went back into film big time around 2002, It was Super-8 sound. I searched far and wide on 8mm for Bill Mason, but he was nowhere to be found.

When I finally gave in and dipped a toe into 16mm about two years ago, it was mostly to gain access to different films, and I knew there was a lot of Bill Mason on 16mm because back in the day it was the NFB's prime distribution format. One of the first ones I snagged was Blake.

Blake is a nice 20 minute Bill Mason short about a man in love with flying small planes, and it follows him in his journey across Canada in a single engine, open cockpit biplane. There is much navigation by following roads and absolutely no hot towels in First Class!

I have it on both DVD and VHS (somewhere here), but still the same, to me it's special to see it in the way the filmmakers imagined even as they were standing behind their cameras.

YES, it's (more than) a little on the red side, but the cyan filters tame that.