Standard 8 sound features

[John Burgess]

I have been collecting the above for as long as I can remember, and have a great number of titles. This last few years I have noticed that prints are becoming very thin on the ground , there must be loads out there , super 8 prints are everywhere and of course most titles are more appealing to collectors as they are more current releases . Anyway, maybe someone in the forum may have some titles they no longer need. If you are considering thinning down let me know.
cheers John

[Lee Mannering]

I'm going to do another Criswell Predicts..

I predict more people will be collecting STD 8 movies in the year 2021!




Our mutual friend over the coast has well over 400 STD 8 feature films John but being a true collector of film he wont part with any.

I've only just started asking around for any SCOPE STD 8 sound films so keep your sprockets crossed.

[John Burgess]

I can understand your friend not wanting to part with any of his collection, hey 400 films is one big pile of film! I have one Scope colour feature 1956 ,It’s a wonderful world, lovely print with good colour. Part of the enjoyment of our hobby is the CHASE, then of course the thrill of running a newly acquired Print. In the meantime the search goes on!
cheers John

[Panayotis A. Carayannis]

I have many standard 8 silent features,if you are interested.

[John Burgess]

Hi, thanks for your kind offer but I am only interested in sound prints.
regards John

[Osi Osgood]

I actually saw, many years ago, a collection of std 8 home movies on eBay Germany that were shot in scope. I wish I had bought them.

[Panayotis A. Carayannis]

I know of only one std 8 sound 'scope feature, I MARRIED A WOMAN, with George Gobel and Diana Dors. Otherwise,there are 3 0r 4 Ken one reelers of scope Japanese monster movies, released sqweezed by mistake,or neglect, as well as two Film Office Disneys I discovered recently, BEARLY ASLEEP and HOOKED BEAR in b&w sound.

[Brian Fretwell]

Didn't Derann have some rental only standard 8 scope features, perhaps they got sold off (or went missing) after the library closed or the rights ran out.

[Joseph Banfield]

It's funny you mentioned regular 8 sound films. I have always wanted to go that route. I like the fact that with that much longer sound seperation there would be zero film chatter in the audio as compared to Super 8. I've seen some great looking standard 8 prints over the years. I think Joe Caruso has mentioned many times over the years that the Blackhawk standard 8 titles are usually much better prints than the Super 8 releases. I have a standard 8 sound cartoon from Castle films called "Termites from mars" with Woody Woodpecker that looks like 16mm!

[John Burgess]

The problem with std 8 sound films the quality of both sound and picture varies from stunning to terrible. I suppose this was early days of mag stripe and it was a bit hit and miss. However I have some features that as good or even better than Super 8 I always found Walton to be very consistent. Does anyone in the forum know how many std 8mm sound features were printed
during their heyday?

[Osi Osgood]

It is kind of a "lost format" to many people these days, over shadowed by super 8. Shorty is right! He sold me on STD 8 Blackhawks, they're definitely superior. Thanks Shorty!

[Tom Photiou]

The std 8 format is a very good one. Prints were always excellent and sharp and mostly with very good sound.
I say mostly for one reason, the best full feature we had was the Robert Stack/Raymond Burr western "Great day in the Morning". The print looked almost technicolour but unfortunately the sound was a bit muffled. We still have a number of STD 8's including some Walton L & H shorts, the 400ft Blackhawk L & H shorts Thicker than water and Midnight patrol, 2 x 400ft Fireball XL5s, 2 400ft Stingrays the 4x400 feature version of Distant Drums and the full feature of Winchester 73 and Bugles in the afternoon.
The one i would like to get hold of is the Derann feature of Psycho.

[Edward Nicielnik]

I have The Invisible man 1933 Claude Rains 4 x 400 feet there are bargains out there you just got to find them

[John Burgess]

Tom, have got Psycho along with the trailer, not for sale!

[Tom Photiou]

Cant blame you for that

Although not the same, we do have the super 8 400ft version and the promo.