What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Melvin England]

Tonight's offering in the Man Cave included 3 real chestnuts that were very popular years ago, but no one seems to mention anymore.


G.I.Blues - 1x 50' Trailer - Mr. Presley stretching his vocal chords.

Gone With The Wind - 1x 60' Trailer - Just purchased on Ebay UK and landed on my door mat this morning, so just HAD to see it. Great copy!

National Lampoon's Animal House - 2x 400' - Classic comedy from the fraternity of 1962 .

The Jerk - 2x 400' - Steve Martin in fine zany form.

The Sting - 2x 400' - Mr Newman and Mr Redford vs Mr Shaw !



The 2x 400's are all great edits and at a running time of approx 30 - 35 minutes or so, they can showcase the full feature far better than most of the 1x 400' edits can. Pity so many other 400'ers didn't get this treatment.

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[Brian Fretwell]

For halloween the trailers to Son of Frankenstein and The Gost of Frankenstein then as I have no real Jeckle and Hyde - Dr Jeckle and Mr Mouse (Tom & Jerry).

[Graham Ritchie]

Well the GS1200 has not been getting a lot of use of late, not a good idea with that projector, so ran one of my favorite 1200ft reels two nights ago. One thing I do notice, is how bright the picture is with that lamp conversion and Thomas great piece of advice in doing it a while back.

All up nine reels of cartoons, color wise, the Castle releases I bought new a million years ago still are pretty good. The Walton "Two Mouseketeers" well that one stands out looks as good today as when I bought it new during the 1970s. Then its "The Dwarfs Dilemma", followed by "I Wan'na Be Like You" plus a few more on that reel was certainly fun to watch, but how the years have passed since buying them, so its certainly a bit of a nostalgia trip to screen these gems again the other night.

PS A couple of screen shots from the last one

[Graham Sinden]

Thanks Brian.

[Brian Fretwell]

The edit of Scrooge was a bit strange,Marley's ghost and the first two Spirits (Christmas Past and Present) were replaced by an intertitle, bit that did give time for a longer scene with Chistmas yet to come. So basically the set up, the revelation and the new Scrooge. Not bad though.

[Graham Sinden]

I'm with you Brian as I watch the new Christmas Trailers reels and Madagascar Penguins well out of season. I love Christmas but sometimes it is just to appreciate the quality of them.

What was the edit and quality of Scrooge like. I was interested in that 600ft at BSTR but realised I had spent too much already so left it. Still Blackpool to come .

Graham S

[Melvin England]

They should complement each other nicely!

All you need now (and you have probably got them already) are the Tom & Jerry + Disney versions of The Night Before Christmas.

[Brian Fretwell]

I bought the cut down of Scrouge at the Big Screen Scene revival and was checking it for pairing with Mickey's Christmas Carol at Christmas.

[Melvin England]

A little bit early for Scrooge, Brian, IMO. Another 6 or 7 weeks perhaps.....

Anyway....

The Man Cave has remained silent these last 3 Saturday nights. I have just returned from a trip around the Med. and Adriatic visiting 6 countries no less, 4 being brand new to me. And.... yes.....I had a wonderful time, thanks.

However, last night it was business as usual watching the following delights.....




Historic Film - 1x 200' - A Pathe documentary on restoring very early film, featuring movie sequences of Queen Victoria for example. Very interesting.

The Fabulous Musicals - 1x 600' - A classic episode from the Hollywood and The Stars collection narrated by Joseph Cotton.

Showboat - 4x 600' - Ava Gardner and Howard Keel. A film that I purchased from a well known collector years ago that still looks as good as the day it was printed. Wonderful colour.


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[Brian Fretwell]

The Digest version of "Scrooge" from DCR/Davelyn films and the trailer for "Twister" were mine for last night.

[Brian Fretwell]

"Fraternally Yours" teh 1x400ft version of "Sons of the Desert" bought at the Big Screen Scene Revival on Sunday.

[Steve Klare]

-it seems I'm not he only one to see it!

[Steve Klare]

I made a mistake some years ago. I was after Gepe 300 foot reels and found some home movies on them on e-Bay buy-it-now for cheaper than the reels would have cost me empty.

Great Plan: "Buy the films, spool 'em off into the garbage and keep the reels!"

It was perfect! What could go wrong?!

-welllll...then I got them and saw that they were about an aviation club down on the Texas Gulf coast and they were messing around with planes and going flying...

...and I kinda'...liked the films.

(Damn!)

[Osi Osgood]

I love that gorgeous color! It's like technicolor, like it happened yesterday! Beats the hell out of video. I have VHSC and early mini digital home movies, but color and image quality truly pales in comparison to those glorious Kodachrome memories! I'm thinking about getting my scope super 8 home movies scanned. They still look great, my little brothers are still those little bro's, quite different than what they grew up to be; but the later videos just look shoddy compared to that film!

[Graham Ritchie]

I totally agree Steve regarding home movies in regard to capture and preserve people time and history. We watched some of our own last week, they look like they were taken just yesterday, and not over 40 years ago. That moment in time that will never come again, captured on Kodak film projected as it should be on a Super 8 projector. Regarding the home movies that I was sorting out for Ferrymead as well, the Kodachrome Standard 8mm is amazing, thank goodness they still look good, sadly I have got nowhere regarding tracking the folk down in them. I told a family just today, never bring your 8mm home movies here, digitize them by all means, but always keep them safe, stored in a cool dry place as digital can pack up but there Kodachrome home movies will last forever.

A couple of screen shots on Standard 8mm film taken at a guess 50 years ago or more, no records were never kept at the Park , pity.