What 16mm Films Did You See Last Night?

[Brian Fretwell]

i think the phrase "Belle Epoque" has become so widely used, at least in the UK, that no-one has made a translation, Dominique.

[Dominique De Bast]

Actualités de la Belle Epoque (News From The Belle Epoque) I couldn't find a translation for "Belle Epoque", it's an era that started about 1900 and ended in 1914 with WWI. Good footage from that time. Also a compilation of the songs extracted from the French film "Les trois cousines" (The Three Cousins), 1946, with Andrex and Rellys, two actors a little bit forgotten now. Another film : Vaudeville And Stars From The Twenties, the title gives an idea of the subject Last one : an episode of the mythic French musical TV programme from the '60s and 70's : Discorama. It's dated 19th March 1967 (so I watched it exactly 56 years after it's first diffusion). Among other guests, there is the famous singer Georges Brassens, who performs no less than two songs.

[Melvin England]

My 16mm night tonight was quite an exciting one as two of the films only arrived on my door step this afternoon. I am pleased to say they were / are in great condition.

They are....

1x 1000' Sgt. Bilko - an episode entitled " Mink Inc." from 1956 where the platoon decide to breed Mink for their fur to make money.

1x 1000' Sgt. Bilko - From 1957 "Your Highness Doberman." Doberman gets a girl friend but her mother looks down on him. I love this series !

Then two odd reels.

1x 1600' - A 45 minute section of The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart

1x 2000' - Grease (Scope). It was supposed to be the last 55 minutes or so from the film. What it ended up being was a butchered copy of the full length film. Can't really complain as some of the best songs were still left in and, quite honestly, the "edit was quite good, and it only cost me pennies years ago. I couldn't be bothered to set up the scope lens for this as it would have taken ages. So..... what I did was to put the lens to my eye, rotated it and.... Wow! Cinemascope! It works ! Try it!

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[Dominique De Bast]

A very well done 1963 French documentary about the WW II : La mémoire courte (The Short Memory). It consists of genuine footage about the daily live during the war. My copy is a more than probably a Belgian one as it has the original soundtrack in French an Dutch subtitles. I noticed that some small sections of the films are not subtiled, something I sometimes saw in other films subtitled in French, which is frustrating as you wonder what you are missing.

[Janice Glesser]

I enjoyed tonight watching my low fade print of "The Goodbye Girl".

[Steve Klare]

I did a little research on these animal films , trying to find a set of teaching guides and found out there never were any.
(-makes this simpler, I guess.)

They are part of a series called Silent Safari, which is described like this:

" Also of particular interest was a 1971 Silent Safari series on African animals shot by Jane and Peter Chermayeff, but ignoring the usual narration so that viewers can make their own assessments of the animals' behavior."

-so we are actually watching these as the filmmakers intended.

I also found out there are many other interesting animals in the series: something to look forward to!


I kind of wish these were available in 8mm from Blackhawk, then somebody could call them up and ask if they had "Silent Safaris with sound".

[Steve Klare]

Impala
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A couple of days ago we got "Impala", part of a series of educational films about African wildlife. We watched it last night.

I also recently bought "Ostrich" and "Rhinocerous" from the same seller. The prints are wonderful: beautiful color and sharpness, and not a mark on them anywhere. It's easy to imagine they were printed last month.

What is missing is the student guides that were supposed to be read along with the films. There is no commentary or subtitling so for us it's kind of as if we are there with a set of binoculars watching the animals do their thing. It's up to us to figure it all out for ourselves.

I've always been a big fan of nature films: maybe they make being cooped up in the house this time of the year not so hard.
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Other than that, there's nothing really "gnu" happening here!

[Melvin England]

My Saturday Night film show last night was more like a night in front of the television with some classic TV nostalgia..... all on 16mm !



The Waltons "The Scholar" - 1x 1800' - Series 1 Episode 21. John-Boy teaches Verde to read and write. Beautiful colour.

The Waltons "The Travelling Man" - 1x 1800' - A series 8 episode without John-Boy or mother. Once again, beautiful colour. Two great recent finds.

The Beverly Hillbillies - 1x 1200' Black and white. The Clampett's move into a film studio lot that Mr. Drysdale wants to buy to build a housing estate.

Sgt. Bilko "The Formula" - 1x 800' - Bilko discovers that the oil mix from a drained motor engine can make ones face look 10 years younger!

Casey Jones - 1x 1200' - The contents of the bank need to be moved to another town via rail. A fine excuse for a hold up.

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[Janice Glesser]

Last night I watched Laurel and Hardy in March of the Wooden Soldiers / Babes in Toyland. Not sure why this movie has two names. My print has March of the Wooden Soldiers In the title, however the opening shows mother goose opening a book titled Babes in Toyland.

[Phillip Campey]

Thank you Janice, it is an excellent print.

[Janice Glesser]

Phillip Campey What a great film to have in your collection....and a beautiful print,

[Phillip Campey]

Watched my 16mm scope print of Jaws, its amazing. My favourite film of all time.
I think I'm going a need a bigger screen.

[Janice Glesser]

Watched Dudley Moore and Elizabeth McGovern in Lovesick (1983)... however my favorite character is Alec Guinness as Sigmund Freud

[Janice Glesser]

I love that it's getting dark early so I can watch films sooner in the evening. Tonight I watched Victor/Victoria (1982). It's on 2-2000ft reels. Some deleted scenes...but excellent quality and color.

[Janice Glesser]

I had my family over tonight to watch my latest win on eBay...Regarding Henry (1991) with Harrison Ford and Annette Bening. They even brought dinner and their Golden retriever Ivan too who seemed to enjoy the movie also. The second reel had some lines intermittently but other than that picture quality was excellent on all three reels.