What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[John Burgess]

Recent purchase from CHC, “Every Days a Holiday”,
5x400 colour print (1965). Mike Sarne, John Leyton, Freddie and the Dreamers and Ron Moody star in this comedy musical. Thin story line , but never less lots of hit songs of the day and a reminder of how much fun it was in the 60’s.
I was amazed how good the colour was, yes it was a Standard 8 copy !!
John

[Osi Osgood]

Douglas, who released that Elvis song?

[Douglas Meltzer]

Osi,

There was a company that put out short 50' Super 8mm films of popular singers & bands. These were advertised in various music publications and fan magazines. There's no company information on the leader. The interesting thing is that these were silent!
The Elvis short is actually 100' (B&W) and is taken from the 1970 movie Elvis: That's the Way It Is.
Revolution, 50' (color), is from a promotional film the Beatles did in 1968.

I've striped both of these and added sync sound.

[Lincoln Thorn]

I've been a bad film collector as of late and haven't made a lot of time to watch all my wonderful reels. Life gets busy and passes us by without realizing it!

That has changed over the last week as I've hooked my projector back up, gave her a good cleaning, and have been enjoying a lot of my digests!

Recently I watched my 400 ft (faded) reel of Alain Delon Purple Noon!

Tonight, I plan on screening my reel 2 of ROBOCOP.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Lincoln,

I know Purple Noon is based on The Talented Mr. Ripley, however I've only seen the 1999 Anthony Minghella film and the recent Netflix series, both of which I liked. How is the digest?

[Lincoln Thorn]

I'm a big fan of the Purple Noon and Tom Ripley in general (though I've not seen the Netflix adaptation yet)!

My print is a Japanese digest of Purple Noon, but it condenses the story down pretty well! I highly recommend watching the full film. Alain Delon is wonderful in it.

I'll try to take some pictures of the print and share

[Brian Fretwell]

A couple of rather sepea looking colour Unversal 8 400ft reels, The Phantom of the Opera and Frenzy (with extensions from the 1x200ft.