Super 8mm Action Replay

[Lincoln Thorn]

A Curio of history! The Action Replay - Movie in Your Pocket device.

About 6 Meters of film cartridges ranging from Batman Returns to Toxic Crusader that you'd pop into a small device that would replay moments from the movies in silent Super 8 film!

So now you can say that Batman Returns, in some form, made it to Super 8!

[Osi Osgood]

That's so fascinating! I wonder what the source was for the print material? 35mm trailers, cut up for footage? Hmm. Does it say somewhere on the back of the package, about other available titles?

[Lincoln Thorn]

That's so fascinating! I wonder what the source was for the print material? 35mm trailers, cut up for footage? Hmm. Does it say somewhere on the back of the package, about other available titles?

After researching, it seems there were A LOT of brands for these 30 second clip loops. Action Replay/Telpics Fascinations/Micro Action Movie Viewer/etc. I couldn't discover the source for the print unfortunately.

[Matthieu van der Sluis]

I have bought a few of those viewers, with Merilyn Monroe.

[Lincoln Thorn]

Here is a back cover for a little more detail about them!

[Dave Bickford]

I had something similar when I was a little kid in the early 1970's! The clips were longer and came in large, rectangular, red cartridges. I forgot what brand they were. When I was a teenager, I put the films on a 50' reel. I still have that reel, and in fact, I watched it about a year ago! It brought back so many memories! As one might guess, the prints are now extremely faded.

[Joseph Banfield]

I had something similar when I was a little kid in the early 1970's! The clips were longer and came in large, rectangular, red cartridges. I forgot what brand they were. When I was a teenager, I put the films on a 50' reel. I still have that reel, and in fact, I watched it about a year ago! It brought back so many memories! As one might guess, the prints are now extremely faded.

Yea, I had those red cartridges too...I believe mine were from the TV series "The six million dollar man"! But it wasn't the early 70's for me but the mid 70's if I recall correctly.

[Lee McCaffrey]

I have a Terminator 2 cartridge but no player.

[Dave Bickford]

Yea, I had those red cartridges too...I believe mine were from the TV series "The six million dollar man"! But it wasn't the early 70's for me but the mid 70's if I recall correctly.

Mine were some Disney cartoons. Rabbit and the hare, Goofy with shenanigans with various ghosts…1001 Dalmatians… ❤️

[Matthieu van der Sluis]

I have a Terminator 2 cartridge but no player.

Is that the long cassette for this mupi viewer, or the above one with 30 seconds scene?
From all this viewers, the Mupi gave the larger viewing experience.
You had to turn a wheel to play the film.

[Joerg Polzfusz]

The „action replay“ was also sold as „micro movie player“ (mainly in the USA):
https://www.filmkorn.org/super8data/...cro_viewer.htm
I have got one of those with a „750 years Berlin“ clip.
There have been devices on eBay with clips from one of the Star Trek Next Generation movies and from one of the 007-movies with Pierce Brosnan. They must have been the last produced batches.

[Brian Fretwell]

They all seem to be developments based on the 1960's Technicolor loop system used for short silent information/training films to me.

[Lee McCaffrey]

Matthieu, my cartridge is for the Action Replay system, so the small clear round cartridge. It's an excerpt of the scene where the T-1000 rides the police motorcycle at the helicopter and then 'morphs' into the cockpit in front of the pilot. I believe a number of T2 extracts were available, I recall seeing them in Woolworths at some point during the mid to late 1990s.

[Osi Osgood]

The back cover says "made in china", but that might just be the actual plastic parts. There were probably assorted super 8 printers back then still serviceable, which are now on the scrap heap of history.😠