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Video: 4 young lads on hunting tour for Super 8 prints in England 1991
Video: 4 young lads on hunting tour for Super 8 prints in England 1991
Follow four young man though their 1991 shopping trip to iconic British Super 8 shops like Perry‘s Movies, Derann or Buckingham Film Services. Never before seen footage! Those were the days…
Retro: 4 young lads on hunting tour for #super8 prints in England 1991
Thank you Joachim, a great and unique video. But was it filmed on super 8, because I can hear a camera running? Buckingham films and Derann look just like I remember them when I visited in 1993. Both places were truly Aladdin's caves!
Good to see you posting here again Mark. I still have happy memories of the day you and your family visited us here in Orlando and had lunch with us, and checked out our home cinema. Happy days indeed!
Those 4 lads paid so much money for their hobbies but stay in a small room and sharing beds.. that is sometime reflecting most of us..
My friend paid $20 for a bluray and complained that he paid that much only for a movie. Should he know me spend $400 for the same movie on 8mm would make him jump from his bed...
Btw... that is a nice documentary.
i started my love with 8mm in 1984 when my father brought a projector from Japan.
1991 was my time to start collecting 8mm from overseas. I was still at the second year of my Uni time and still did not have chance to buy from overseas. So I developed my collection from local fleamarket.
In 1996 I continued my Master degree in Australia and there I started buyinh films from overseas. There I knew Rodney Bourke and met him in person in Melbourne Film convention (if he still remember that event). I subscribed to his publication.
I wrote a letter to Derann and Duncan replied my letter by sending 1 200" WHDM free. I still keep it that now. I also wrote a letter with Robert Aragon about re-recording my 400' Raiders of the Lost Ark to stereo sound (but never happened) and he replied my letter with another letter. Internet was not a common thing at that time.
And now after these years I am still here collecting 8mm films altough slowing down (due to 60% of my film trapped on VS).
Thank you! I'm so glad this footage exists. I've been to Derann, but I've never seen Buckingham or Perry's. I was hoping for an American Graffiti type ending with text updates on whether our 4 collectors are still interested in film!
It’s nice to see those events from the past. I was particularly touched at the Blackpool footage, for sitting a few rows from the front is myself and my dad George Moors, a truly great Super 8 film collector who attended Blackpool and the Derann Open days from 1977 until 2005. What he didn’t know about the golden age of cinema wasn’t worth knowing. A massive Errol Flynn fan as well. He is sadly missed.
I think this film is far FAR F A R more important than just a good film about a road trip made by four German collectors over to the UK, interesting as it is. I really think this film, made in a rather "off the cuff" way (spontaneous way) absolutely beautifully captures an era when one COULD visit several film shops up and down the country AND there was Blackpool! It is SO atmospheric and what fantastic footage is included of Derann and Derek Simmonds in full flight at the auction! That has always been a happy memory for me stored in my mind, and look.......we can now see him in action again in what is "new" footage for most of us from an era which has sadly declined.
Unfortunately, I was not at either Blackpool Convention in November '91 or '92, as I was enjoying a trip to Florida on both occasions.
I really do think that this film should also be archived, with the makers permission, on the Blackpool Convention website for all to see.
Phil Moors - I enjoyed reading your post. I am sure it came as a very pleasant surprise to suddenly see some unseen footage of yourself and your father together enjoying what you both liked doing the most. I am sure he would have been very impressed and very happy to have known how strong the hobby would still be in 2025.... and probably even happier that you are still involved !
Good to see you posting here again Mark. I still have happy memories of the day you and your family visited us here in Orlando and had lunch with us, and checked out our home cinema. Happy days indeed!
Hi Paul,
yes it was great visiting you in Florida - where have the years gone!😳
There is one thing about film collecting.. it leaves so many great memories that we can reflect on and share.
Best to all the collectors from my generation 1973 onwards …happy times!👍
Mark.📽️
PS - again what a wonderful video that those lads produced👏
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