What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Lincoln Thorn]

Earlier this week I screened Mickeys Christmas Carol and It's A Wonderful Life for my family at my parents home.

It was a treat to watch with the Christmas tree all lit up.

[Graham Ritchie]

After giving this ST600 good clean, and as it had not run in a long while, I screened three "Look At Life" films on one Eumig 600 foot reel.

1...."Village Of Violins" from1960, although it has some fade its still an interesting film to watch. I bought this print new long ago.
2....."Holiday Camps" 1963 this print came new from Derann and has excellent color and sound.
3....The last of the three L/L is "The Eagles Nest" from 1962, again superb color/sound print.

"Look At Life" films are great to watch.

I took a couple of photos of the projector two days ago, just after screening those above films, it ran well with no problems at all.

[Steve Klare]

Last night (and the night before)

Buster Keaton in Steamboat Bill Jr. This is a 4x400' Blackhawk which was united (-and yet still divided) onto 2x800'. It is a scored print: very theatrical sounding organ music.

This is an absolute classic!

-It's the one where the house collapses behind Buster and the open window in the upper floor ends up falling over and around him. It's said that Buster Keaton broke almost very bone in his body, and seeing him in a movie like this one, that seems entirely plausible!

[Chip Gelmini]

Dec 3rd INTOLERANCE

Dec 7th BIRTH OF A NATION

Absolute classics! Full length with added magnetic score.

[Graham Ritchie]

Last night it was my special edition of "A Walt Disney Christmas" I bought this film new many moons ago, although the color has faded a little bit, its still very much in the ball park. A couple of years I ago I started thinking about removing both the "Santa's Workshop" and "The Night Before Christmas" extracts and replace them with the full length Derann prints that had stunning color. Apart from removing the leader numbers and making the tails shorter I spliced them both into the middle, leaving the original "Toy Tinkers" and the final "Pluto's Christmas Tree" alone. Watching this special edition does look good, although the film is now on a Eumig 600 feet reel. Checking the total footage, it does come to about 425 feet, remember though the original extracts were on acetate film "thicker" and the Derann prints on polyester being "thinner" so footage wise on the reel is not showing that great an increase. Adding those two full length films in the middle gives my old print of "A Walt Disney Christmas" given the viewing experience a boost.

Second film tonight was "The Snowman" on 600 foot. My original purchase from Derann was of a stereo print, many years later I came across the 600 foot mono version locally and it was the mono version I screened last night. The print is in excellent condition with only a tiny bit of fade, The mono sound is very good indeed, I suspect, and it looks like its pre-striped Super 8 film stock, before Derann were forced to do there paste striping after pre-striped film stock was discontinued.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Lincoln,

As am I! Derann put this out in 2005, ending a big gap between full length feature releases. M&C on Super 8mm was the result of a group of Forum members working with Derann to obtain the source material and gather enough pre-orders to make it a viable release. This print is from the first run of 20.

[Lincoln Thorn]

The first reel of Derann's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

Great film, nice print!

WOW! Ive been searching for a print of that one for a long time now. So happy you have one to enjoy!

[Douglas Meltzer]

The first reel of Derann's Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World.

Great film, nice print!

[Douglas Meltzer]

Two Robert Youngson shorts:

The Oscar winning 1951 one reeler The World of Kids & Head Over Heels (1953).





Both were released by Reel Images.

[Brian Fretwell]

Thanks for looking, I doubt it is Madagasca as I don't have that disc.

[Steve Klare]

Actually, Dreamworks distributed Aardman's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and produced The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper: that's how they wound up in theaters together as Feature and Short.

My theory isn't bearing results though: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit disks I'm seeing for sale don't have Christmas Caper.

-then maybe it came with Madagascar itself?

[Graham Sinden]

Thanks for the info Steve, but you will not find any Pixar cartoons on a Aardman DVD and vice versa .

[Steve Klare]

Hi Brian,

According to IMDB, The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper showed with Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. If you have that DVD, it's probably your best bet.

I have "Penguins" and it is really good. Like Knick-Knack, the sound is good, but the volume is low. I think where I'm getting into trouble here is most of the time I show these on a monaural projector and these are both stereo prints. Lacking the power of the right-side channel, the sound is low. It's not a big deal: I just twist the knob.

There are about five movies that we quote a lot around here (Young Frankenstein is a major one). "Penguins" is also one of them:
"Yes, Rico! -Ka-Boom!"

[Brian Fretwell]

I wish I had bought the penguins "Christmas caper" I have it as an extra on a dvd, but can't remember which one!

[Steve Klare]

Geri's Game is kind of the Holy Grail for me!

(-without the vicious rabbit, the shrubbery and the coconuts, of course!)

I've never seen one for sale anywhere.

I have Early Bloomer, most likely the test print that showed at the BFCC just after Derann announced the release (-not long afterwards it was on their used list and I grabbed it.). We showed it at CineSea some years later and the next morning I'm riding down a pretty full elevator headed to breakfast and one of the guys asked "Where did you get that print?".

(-too late!)