What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Douglas Meltzer]

Lincoln,

Very nice, very rare! Is this different than "Ransom for a Dead Man" which was the pilot for the series?

[Lincoln Thorn]

A few nights ago I was able to clean and screen my super copy of COLUMBO - DEED FOR A DEAD MAN.

I found it purely by chance for about $50-60 dollars, so why not! It is faded unfortunately, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying Peter Falk playing through my projector.

[Steve Klare]

Tonight: a Compilation

1) N&W Articulateds - Class Y6 (300', S8 Sound) Immense steam locomotives of the Norfolk and Western haul long coal trains in the Mountains of Virginia in the 1950s. (One hundred car freight trains properly shook my wife's china closet!)

2) Journey into Spring (600', S8 Sound) We spend a Springtime in Selborne, remembering English naturalist Gilbert White and his observations of that same countryside as the season changes (-my annual tradition: about 3 weeks late his year!)

3) Confessions of A Trainspotter (1200', 16MM Sound) Michael Palin rides British Rail from London to Scotland, with side-trips into the hearts, minds and souls of rail-fans along the way.

This calls for some statistics:

This show was 2/3 Super-8, 2/3 Railways, 2/3 English, and 2/3 Elmo (ST-800M and ST-1200HD M, 16mm per Kodak Pageant)

-although neither the rail films nor the English films were on the same gauge!

-Then again if you count the nationality of the projectors, it WAS 2/3 Japanese!


I kept a rule I learned a few years ago for a three-machine rewind: no more than two machines at a time!
(Three at a time gets a little too busy!)

[Osi Osgood]

We watched my new acquisition, "Rocketship", the first of the Flash Gordon features, put together from the first serial. The print was actually pretty good, being a "Niles" print, which could be very hit or miss.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Melvin,

What an excellent line up of scope films. It's good for the mice to get a chance to play (and project) every so often!

[Melvin England]

Quoting the words of that Four Seasons song December '63....... OH WHAT A NIGHT !!

I wasn't in my Man Cave this evening. Just like Kevin McCallister in the film, I was "Home Alone." My wife was on baby sitting duty 25 miles away, so I thought I would try something a little different.
Our bedroom is En Suite which means it has quite a long throw to the huge blank wall above the bed. This should be superb for a cinemascope night. Big huge wide picture, hopefully.
So, I set up the projector (Sankyo 702) on the projector stand in the (dry) bathroom, loaded a film up, fixed the lens on and away we go....
Oh Boy! A cinemascope image ten feet wide in my own home! Perfect! It was the nearest thing to a "proper" cinema experience I have ever had in my house. Fabulous!




So, what did I watch ?

As you can imagine, the show went on until the early hours.

Remember...... these are ALL in cinemascope....


Scope55 / Carousel Trailer 1x 100' - A great way to start. The flat intro suddenly explodes into scope. Breathtaking.
Lawrence of Arabia Trailer 1x 100'
Oliver Trailer 1x 100' - Mark Lester
Close Encounters of The Third Kind Promo 1x 200' - includes an interview with Spielberg.
Summer Nights 1x 200' - From Grease
We've Got A Show 1x 200' - Cliff Richard extract from The Young Ones. My first screening of this one.
This Is Pompeii 1x 200' - A Derann short. Very soft focus I must say.
Movietone News 1x 200' - Featuring bridges and aircraft displays.
The Beatles Come To Town 1x 200' - The fab four in all their beetroot red cinemascopic glory !
Ben Hur 1x 400' - Just arrived on my doorstep the day before courtesy of a fellow forum member. I must say, this completely knocks the spots off the identical "flat" version. A good edit, too !
Summer Holiday 1x 400' - Cliff Richard again.
Escape To Athena 1x 400' - Roger Moore
Escape To Victory 1x 400' - Michael Caine, Sylvester Stallone, Bobby Moore and Pele.
Airport '75 1x 400'
Two Minute Warning 1x 400' - Charlton Heston again! Third time tonight !
The Sound of Music 1x 600' - Reel 4 of the feature, from the "ball" scene to the "picking blueberries" scene via "So Long,Farewell" and "Climb Ev'ry Mountain" plus intermission and music.


A perfect example of "when the cat's away, the mice will play!"

[Graham Ritchie]

Thanks Brian

[Brian Fretwell]

I seem to remember there being problems getting good prints with the scope version so not many were made.

[Graham Ritchie]

Tonight and its been a long while since I last watched this one, filmed on Wednesday November 20th 1963 "The Beatles Come To Town" bought new from Derann many moons ago. This is the flat version, I think it was also released in Scope. Excellent print as with the sound. "The Beatles Come To Town" is a real step back in time to the 1960s.

[Brian Fretwell]

And for me it had to be the 'scope Tom & Jerry "Happy go Ducky"!

[Oliver Feld]

Of course I had to screen EASTER PARADE. Judy Garland and Fred Astaires legendary performances will last forever

[Douglas Meltzer]

Two Jerry Lewis cutdowns. Film Office's Le Dingue du Palace (The Bellboy), 250'.

Ken Films' Sailor Beware, 200'. Originally a silent release, I've striped it and added sound. The way this and other Ken Paramount digests are edited lead me to believe that there were plans to put these out with sound, but for some reason Ken decided to hold off till their next set of releases.

[Steve Klare]

Monday night, Tuesday night and Tonight:

One of my favorite movies: When the North Wind Blows (6x400'). It's a little special if you are a film fan: it's basically non-existent in North America except on 8 and 16mm.

We do a lot of features with the video projector: the variety and quality are spectacular, but this week we decided to go all-film. It's kind of a tradition I have of watching a multi-reel feature in chapters for a couple of nights, so my son and I got together every night at 10PM and did two reels.

[Osi Osgood]

That's a good sharp print, with good contrast too!

[Lincoln Thorn]

I watched NOTORIOUS with Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant last night! 2x1200ft reels through my ELMO ST-1200HD.