What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Osi Osgood]

I watched my new acquisition, a 2x400ft Bogart documentary, put out by Niles. It has a surprisingly sharp image and I luckily found a copy that, A. Was brand new, never screened, and B. The color has held up pretty well. A slight browning to it, and depending on the color scenes, some scenes are literally spot on, while the next shot will look faded. Color timing issues. Almost all the Bogie scenes are from black and white films, so the slight lack of perfect blacks give them a sepia tone. Nice

[Phil Moors]

It was our Super 8 Christmas Show last night. We watched,

Santa’s Workshop. Disney. Derann
The Night Before Christmas Disney Derann
The Snowman. Derann
Alpine Climbers. Disney Derann
Peter & the Wolf. Disney. Derann
Plutos Christmas Tree. Disney Home Movies (40 years old and still with good colour)

Christmas Eve we will watch on digital,

The Night Before Christmas Tom & Jerry
Mickey’s Christmas Carol
Once upon a Wintertime (from Melody Time)
Holiday Inn with Bing and Fred Astaire.

A Merry Christmas to you all!

[Alan Paterson]

I watched 'Clash of the Titans' (1981) last night. The 3x400ft Marketing films release which had been spooled on to 2x600ft reels. The colour is still pretty good, with some red visible in the shadows of the first 400 feet but the rest of the film was better. While the effects are pre-CGI they are still a tribute to Ray Harryhausen and his stop motion animation. I actually saw some of the production of this film at Pinewood Studios back in the day. Ray's effects studio was in what most of us would call a big shed. A great cast including Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith & Burgess Meredith.

[Osi Osgood]

We have that title as well! Doug, this one is fairly easy to find overseas, and with Agfa or Fuji low fade color!

[Eivind Mork]

I love all the four shorts in A Walt Disney Christmas, so much that I found all four shorts in full length :-) Watching these Christmas cartoons is the highlight of the year for me in this hobby.

[Graham Ritchie]

Doug its one film we all watch every Christmas, what I did last year was to remove Santa's Workshop and The Night Before Christmas and edited in the full length excellent color Derann prints of those two extracts instead I have had for years. It means the film is now on a 600ft reel but is more complete, looks good.

[Douglas Meltzer]

A Walt Disney Christmas, 400'. Very enjoyable, with fairly decent color.

[Osi Osgood]

Just one little thing, "Sleeping Beauty" 1959 trailer, but it's a well edited 3 minutes, ten seconds, and it's in scope ... and LPP!

[Melvin England]

..... So there were at least 2 households in the UK watching reel film this Saturday evening!

Carrying on with my Christmas / Christmassy film subjects as we approach the big day, I watched the following......


Father of The Bride - 1x 50' trailer. - Steve Martin.

Four Weddings and a Funeral - 1x 50' trailer - You know this film.....

The Sound of Music - 1x 75' - trailer. Ditto !

Rupert and The Frog Song - We All Stand Together. 1x 400' - A CHC gem of a release of the Rupert / Paul McCartney cartoon.

Scrooge - 5x 400' - Alistair Sim - Its annual outing !


As the projector was out, I decided to also screen the first reel of the 5x 400' A Night To Remember. I watched it at Blackpool and was curious to see where my version started. It includes the launch scene, all the titles, but misses out the whole sequence of Kenneth More leaving home and travelling to the port on the train. It picks up with the officers on the Bridge before the iceberg hit. No doubt other bits were either left out or shortened, but is still a great film to see on super 8.

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[Lee Mannering]

Been watching some family films my late father filmed on 9.5 and 8mm of us as kids. Dad was a keen 9.5er, 17.5,16mm and later 8. Precious memories preserved on REEL film..

Ended watching a 50ft personal S8 record I filmed on the set at Pinewood Studios in 1974 working on Bugsy Malone as a young boy.

Watched the 400ft of Bugsy Malone then the feature. Pinewood open day and the pedal cars we used to race around in-between takes.

Finally! The new Super 8 11m minute release ABC ADS TRAILERS which includes the long trailer to Bugsy. A night full of memories....

[Brian Fretwell]

Mine was from my then bride, who didn't stay around for very long, but the splicer did. I've had a couple of splicers since. She has had three more husbands!!!!!

[Steve Klare]

Mom and Dad would certainly have bought me one if I asked!
They liked my film hobby.
(-maybe some "keeps him off the streets"...thing!)

[Douglas Meltzer]

Oops! I should have phrased that better. I purchased my splicer in 1976. In fact, I bought the workshop!

[Steve Klare]

Hmmmpf!

-I had to buy my OWN splicer!😊

[Douglas Meltzer]

Brian,

That's one year before I got my Guillotine splicer!