What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Douglas Meltzer]

Distributed by Columbia 8mm, the Superman 400' digest is one of the best edits ever. There's definite fade, but those blues are hanging in there!

[Chip Gelmini]

Too bad it wasn't LPP & scope

[Graham Ritchie]

Last night with one fairly full Scope reel

1....Busy Buddies "Tom and Jerry"
2....Titanic trailer.
3....Egg and Jerry.
4.....Bearly Asleep 1955 an excellent Derann release.
5.....Shakespeare 400 a very interesting film.
6.....South Pacific
7....."2001 A Space Oddity" trailer
8.....Star Wars The Phantom Menace trailer.
9.....followed by the full length of "The Pod Race" a must to show of Super8 in Scope.

Apart from Busy Buddies all the other films have got good color and sound

A couple of screen shots from last night.



Bearly Asleep

South Pacific



2001 trailer

[Douglas Meltzer]

Nice reel, Graham! I kick myself for not getting The Pod Race when I had the chance.

I finished editing the audio to match Columbia's silent cutdown of the 1935 Boris Karloff film The Black Room. It's a complicated story to tell in 200' but they did a good job. Audio adds a lot to this one.

Karloff is excellent in a dual role, plus kudos to Von the dog for his fine acting job in a pivotal role. Von also appeared in the Our Gang short Roamin' Holiday.

[John Burgess]

It is a great film Douglas, I have a St8 print 4x400 it’s one of my favourites. I agree ,Von steals the show!
John

[Mike Newell]

In a Karloff theme. Bride of Frankenstein 400 digest.

[Mike Newell]

Part 2

[Mike Newell]

Part 3

[Osi Osgood]

Very good print of that title, Mike!

[Mike Newell]

Very good print of that title, Mike!

Yes, Osi Terrible situation I acquired two copies at the same time and both prints are of the the same quality. Looking for a 400ft Son of Frankenstein digest.

Mike

[Dominique De Bast]

I bought an Elmo HiVi sion SC-18 projector at a flea market, here in Brussels, today. I got it for a fair price, but the sound is not working (which I knew before buying it as the machine was tested on the spot). The projector came with four 60m / 200ft silent Black and white versions of colour sound cartoons. I watched them as a test of the projector after transport to my living room. The quality of the picture on the built-in screen is good. I moved the voltage selector from 220v to 240v and the picture is still bright although the 100 watts lamp and the 1.3 lens. The cartoons are : Docs Last Stand, The Pup's Christmas, Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Bwana Magoo.

[Brian Fretwell]

Just the Look at Life "the CInema Steps Out", purchsed earlier in the day from Phil's May CHC open day. I was too sleepy to wathc any others, but it was good to meet up with what must be "the usual suspects" at this event. All were Blackpool regulars! Here's to the August event there (First weekend in AUgust).

[Graham Ritchie]

Doug

Your comments on the Pod Race bought back memories of when I read the review in the FFTC magazine Spring 2001 edition This review at the time, prompted me to buy it from Derann. I re-read it yesterday and thought I would be nice to add it here, plus a couple of screen shots left over from the other night.

[Brian Fretwell]

Part 1 of the full length The Road to Bali, purched at CHC at the weekend to go with my part 3 of the editied doen Derann version.

[Graham Ritchie]

Thankfully I still have all my FFTC magazines and still worth a look through every so often. One Scope film I bought from its review was Pearl Harbor in Scope with a running time of 18 minutes. The print quality was excellent, the down side was the sound quality being not the best. I was never sure if it was the recording or the stripe itself. However in the Scope ratio it does look good on the screen. The FFTC review does give the print a A/A plus with sound being an A-A/B. I still screen it every so often as I do like watching Scope films. We did run the 35mm print at the cinema long ago, but never thought much about the film itself at the time. However the Super 8 Scope extract if you find one with a good soundtrack is well worth searching out, as with the Super8 trailer as well.