What 16mm Films Did You See Last Night?

[Larry Arpin]

Watched FIRST MEN IN THE MOON in full Technicolor. It is a letterbox version with Edward Judd and a great performance by Lionel Jeffries. I've been watching my Ray Harryhausen 16mm films in reverse order starting with CLASH OF THE TITANS. Next up will be JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS.

[Melvin England]

Tonight it was one of three recent purchases I have made. You will find out about the other two in due course.

But tonight was Hitchcock night with The Man Who Knew Too Much on 2x 2200 spools. It was a black and white copy but seem to think it was shot in color. It is also a film I had never seen before so was extra special seeing it on 16mm on the big screen up in the man cave ! Not a bad copy. An obviously "used" copy with sporadic faint lines here and there but nothing serious.
...... Oh.... and I never spotted him ! Had to refer to Google later !

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[Evan Samaras]

Sleepless in Seattle

[Phillip Campey]

mischief managed!

[Graham Ritchie]

This was the only brand new 16mm print of "Pieces Of Silver" I bought many moons ago, screened it again two nights ago

[Dominique De Bast]

Douglas, and the only film with Georges Brassens as actor. Probably complely unlnown outside the French-speaking world, Georges Brassens is regarded as one of the (if not the) best ",text songs" singer. The quality of the lyrics of his songs is unquestionned.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Dominique,

Yes, from 1957. A great performance by Pierre Brasseur.

[Dominique De Bast]

Dominique,

At first I confused this with a later Clair film, "The Gates of Paris". I'll have to see this one.

Is it "Porte des Lilas", Doug ?

[Douglas Meltzer]

Dominique,

At first I confused this with a later Clair film, "The Gates of Paris". I'll have to see this one.

[Dominique De Bast]

A classical early French talkie : Sous les toits de Paris, Under The Roofs Of Paris (1930) from René Clair. In France, talkies started only in 1929 (and that year, most of the films released were still silent). René Clair's film (his first talkie) has taste of silent film : several dialogues are silent (people away from the camera or behind a glass). It looks even that some scenes were not shot at 24 fps. My copy has English subtitles but they are at a minimum (several dialogues are not "translated", nor are the songs), I'm not sure I would be completely satisfayed with them if I could not understand French, but it seems that the fact that they are few dialogues in the film helped it to be exported in its time. Albert Préjean, who plays the main male role, started with silent films. He was a big star in the '30s. During the war, he visited Germany, something he was blamed for at the end of the war and he never got his high popularity back after that. He played in a 1921 silent film titled "Les trois mousquetaires" (as you guessed, The Three Musketeers). That film was sonorized for a TV channel in the '90s (if I'm not mistaking) for a TV channel. His son, Patrick Préjean, an artist as well, made the narration. I was lucky to see that film in a cinema in Paris for an avant-première and Patrick Préjean was there. He said that he had been very happy to do this narration because that gave him the unique opportunity to have his name credited in a film his father played in.

Albert Préjean.

[Dominique De Bast]

A digest of The Iron Mask (1929). It's originally a silent film with sound effects and two talking scenes. The version I have has a narration in English, with French and Dutch subtitles (so typically made for the Belgian market). Then, a French musicals reel.

[Lincoln Thorn]

On July 1st I had the opportunity to co-host and help project a 12 hour 16mm Marathon to a sold out crowd of 210 audience members! Lisa Wilcox also joined us and introduced her great contribution to a franchise. Please excuse the random order of the photo dump. I’m still trying to figure out how to rearrange photos from my mobile device!

That’s looks so good, Evan! So happy you guys had a great showing.

[Evan Samaras]

We used Eiki 3500S’s. I also forgot to include the incredible artwork completed by Ciro Nieli!

[Ed Gordon]

On July 1st I had the opportunity to co-host and help project a 12 hour 16mm Marathon to a sold out crowd of 210 audience members! Lisa Wilcox also joined us and introduced her great contribution to a franchise. Please excuse the random order of the photo dump. I’m still trying to figure out how to rearrange photos from my mobile device!

That's a nice large screen! What projector did you use?

[Evan Samaras]

On July 1st I had the opportunity to co-host and help project a 12 hour 16mm Marathon to a sold out crowd of 210 audience members! Lisa Wilcox also joined us and introduced her great contribution to a franchise. Please excuse the random order of the photo dump. I’m still trying to figure out how to rearrange photos from my mobile device!