CineSea 21 in Pictures

[Steve Klare]

Saturday (The Part with Daylight…)

Saturday is THE day of CineSea. Most of the big happenings happen then. I always tell someone if they can’t do the whole weekend this is the one day to choose.

Things being what they are, we didn’t get to go out to the group breakfast. This is a shame: it’s an event unto itself. There are so many great places for breakfast in Wildwood it’s easy to find something good. They are a lot of fun too! As soon as the caffeine kicks in, the lively discussion of film starts for the day. This time, scattered groups went out and had breakfast. I had my bike with me, so I rode up the boardwalk and then made a nice breakfast back at the hotel.

With everybody fed, the festivities began for the day!

There is a scattering of tables around the room, all covered with films. Most people are selling film and everyone is also showing it.
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This is Gary’s table. Some folks show 8mm and some show 16mm, some even go big! Gary is a Renaissance Man: he consistently shows both 8 and 16! He’s seen here with one of his beloved Kodak Pageants. 16mm is a habit I picked up at CineSea and Gary helped move me forward here more than anyone. Because he found me a good one, now I have a Pageant too!



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Shorty couldn’t spend the weekend, but he took the time to come all the way to Wildwood and visit a while.



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Something’s always going on behind the scenes on Saturday. That something is usually the prep work for Saturday Night Show. Around the room, films that people have brought down to share are being checked, organized, often cleaned and made ready for that night. Lately these have been 8, 16 and 35mm. Here Geoff is prepping the Heavy Artillery for later on.

Just like at breakfast time, there was no group dinner. A favorite restaurant said they could take us all, but only in groups of 8. We did what we wanted in small groups and some even made dinner at the hotel. This is one of the things we look forward to when things are finally fully back to normal.

Everyone did what they did remembering it was getting to be Showtime!
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Next: Saturday Night Show!

[Graham Ritchie]

Thanks Steve for posting, its always interesting to see what others are doing.

[David Kilderry]

Great info on the event. One day I'd like to get there, it has just never lined up with my trips to the US. Our local Film Collectors Fair here in Melbourne did not happen this year due to COVID. Everything film from 8mm to 35mm is on sale.

[Patrick Walsh]

great stuff!

[Steve Klare]

Saturday Night Show! (Ree1 1)



There can’t be many film evenings quite like Saturday Night Show anywhere else. First of all, it is multi-gauge. From the beginning it’s always been 8 and 16mm. These last few years it’s been 35mm too. Second of all is the audience: mostly film collectors and the people who have learned to love us! In a way this is an audience participation event. A great many of the prints on screen were brought in by people out it the seats. It’s all sorts of films from many different eras and subjects. The only rules are less than 20 minutes and try to keep it clean! (Kids in the audience! Mine used to BE one of ‘em!) It’s even included the occasional live musical presentation by one of several talented CineSea regulars. It’s also a marathon: starting time 8PM, finishing often after 1 in the morning. I'd be really surprised to find out there was anybody else projecting film at a quarter after 1AM anywhere else in the Eastern Time Zone that night!

I’m not even going to try showing every one of over 4 hours of short-subject films: here are just some highlights, (Even at that, this is good for at least two chapters!)
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“WWWWWWABBIT SEATHON!!!!!”

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Hook and Ladder. This happens to be one of mine, and my favorite Our Gang to boot! The Gang improvises an entire fire department out of junkyard stuff! The gent next to me found out it was mine and paid one of the greatest compliments a Super-8 print can receive: “Was that 16mm?”.



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-Conjunction Junction! What’s your function?

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“Friends call me Snow Miser. Whatever I touch. Turns to snow in my clutch! I'm too much “
(-Reminds me, it’s getting time to transition from the Mower to the Blower!)


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Duck Amuck! To me, one of the most creative Warner Brothers cartoons (-and in a group that includes “What’s Opera, Doc?”, that’s saying a lot!). It’s what happens to Daffy when Bugs becomes the animator! ("-Aint I a Stinker?")

We’re just getting warmed up now: the most interesting stuff hasn’t been on-screen yet!

-Stay tuned!

[Chip Gelmini]

Thank you Steve excellent work with the photography and the reporting!

[Janice Glesser]

Thank you Steve for documenting this endearing event. I may not be able to attend... but my heart is with you all. Keep those reels rolling!

[Douglas Meltzer]

Steve has more to come, but at this time I'd like to announce that CineSea 22 will take place April 16th - 18th, 2021.

[Steve Klare]

I do!

(-and it IS endearing!)😀

[Steve Klare]

Saturday Night Show! (Reel 2)

We had a special event at this Saturday Night Show: We saw Dave Baker’s new Jurassic Park digest. Dave is a CineSea regular: he’s been with us at least 6 years as I recall. Dave and Terry Bange (The Ohio Film Collector’s Exchange) brought House of Wax to CineSea 17, and this was the first 35mm Friday Night Feature.

Dave couldn’t be with us this time: at least not in person, but as is so typical for these times, he found a way to be there anyway!
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Dave joined us to discuss the complex international process of getting a Super-8 print produced in these years far in the “future”, when “Super 8” was supposed to mean nothing more than a chain of motels!

In this Dave joins kind of a tiny elite! Thousands of people have been on screen at CineSea, yet Dave is among very, very few who know it, too!

The print was beautiful: nice colors and sharp images. The sound was exactly what you need from a movie with a T-Rex chasing an SUV! The edit absolutely captured the spirit of the feature.

Kudos to Mike Lattavo here: according to another post he attended the premier in Ohio. At that rate he was at BOTH premiers!
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-and the show still went on!
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Requiem for a Heavyweight
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"Let’s all go to the Lobby! Let’s all go to the Lobby! Let’s all go to the Laah-BEEE, and get ourselves a treat!"
(I went downstairs and asked: the Hotel was confused!)

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Evan Samaras showed us his film “No Trespassing”, about a young man on the run from his own demons, and what it looks like when they turn out to be real.

This was originated in Tri-X super-8 and has a really good soundtrack dubbed onto it. Evan has inspired me here: I have a couple of exposed rolls of Tri-X languishing here: I found them yesterday: they are headed to the Lab this month!

The clock rolled up past 1:00AM and the last tail slapped on some machine or other. Somebody in the room counted heads and there were either 13 or 15 people still there. I’m not sure what it was: I wasn’t entirely there myself!
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Just as a general comment: all three film gauges show very well here. Something I often wind up doing is looking back over my shoulder and seeing which machine the beam is coming from: it's not always a slam-dunk guess which gauge it is.



Yet that’s NOT all, we still have some wrapping up to do!


Next: Sunday, and home!

[Greg May]

Great job with all the photos, Steve. It is always nice to look forward to the CineSea in Pictures thread, shortly after the weekend has passed.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Since Steve is moving on to Sunday, here are a few more details about the Super 8mm part of the Saturday screenings.



Warner Brothers' Looney Tunes Welcome to the Theater.



Let's Sing with Popeye (1934) - And everyone did as they followed the bouncing ball!

Revenge of Rendezvous (1975) - Cortlandt Hull's second horror film montage, accompanied by Frank Sinatra singing "Watch What Happens".



Sinatra returns onscreen in Pal Joey Promo, Classic Home Cinema's nice looking release. I had re-recorded the audio for this one.

The Little Rascals - Hook and Ladder (Steve Klare's print).
Tom & Jerry in Pet Peeve (Cineavision Scope print), courtesy of Gary Sloan.
Requiem for a Heavyweight, a nicely edited Columbia digest, from John Capazzo's collection.
An American In Paris - an MGM digest that still had nice color, from Greg May.
She Flies (Scope) - a Derann print about the Concorde's first flight, from Steve Klare.
A scope reel with trailers for Pit and the Pendulum, The Mummy Returns, Around the World in 80 Days and The Reel Image's Bond extract of Die Another Day's opening sequence.

Special thanks to Gary Crawford for conducting the "remote" interview with David Baker.

[Steve Klare]

Sunday and Home

Just as usual: Some headed out to breakfast Sunday morning, but the main theme was the usual “pack it up and go!”. Personally, I had stuff scattered all over the place: a folding chair and a projector in the CineSea room, a room-load of too much stuff, and a bike chained to a railing on some balcony somewhere (-wasn’t bringing it inside my room!). Just as (almost) always, it all arrived home at the same time.

So, our time together came and went, just as always. We did what we do, and it looks like we will continue. People who are now old friends got together and shared what we enjoy so much. Those of us who have been there for a while have made real friendships and seeing everyone again is nice even apart from the films and machines. (We like them too!)

As they say: this one was one for the books! Years from now people will see the “Masked CineSea”, and it’s my hope by then they get to wonder “What was that all about?”. I can honestly say that this time all the precautions may even have slowed us down a little, but they sure didn’t stop us! Time will tell exactly what will happen six months from now.

-Here’s to better days yet to come, not only at CineSea, but everywhere.

Across the Street.

Well, here’s a sad sight. Diagonally across the street from the Shalimar are the remains of the Ocean Holiday. CineSea 20 was supposed to take place there, yet following the sale, the new owners cancelled our reservation in haste to begin a massive renovation. Ultimately their haste led them to stop dead in their tracks roughly 6 months ago. Not a shovelful or a hammer blow happened while we were there. The story goes that after work began, the new owner submitted revised plans including construction of a whole new wing along the Ocean side. When the zoning board rejected the new plans, construction was halted even before the destruction was finished.

-so today it looks like this:

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Here’s how I like to remember it!
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So CineSea 21 is now history, here’s looking forward to CineSea 22: April 16th - April 18th, 2021
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[Douglas Meltzer]

Steve - Nice way to finish up.

Still to come......The special GS I was using and how Alan Gouger saved the day (okay, weekend).

[Joe Taffis]

As usual I enjoyed seeing all the photos and info from Steve Klare and others. I hope to make it back to CineSea sometime. Doug, I hope your GS1200 Xenon isn't kaput!!