What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Osi Osgood]

Just for the heck of it, I decided to buy a super 8 toy that I had from the 70's, "Pocket Flix" this was a little battery driven movie viewer that had a wide range of titles and unlike other super 8 toys, it was not "edited" down, that it, they take out two or three frames for every frame for those hand cranked cartridges. No, this was full 24 fps. They had everything from the 70's King Kong, 60's Star Trek, cartoons and 70's TV. I bought two cassettes, Spiderman and Happy Days. As expected, the film in the cassettes was highly scratched, ( those little viewers were not kind to film), what surprised me was that they were printed on Agfa 4S, so,e while the color appeared to have faded slightly, it was that bad. The little cassettes ran about 30 to 45 seconds at 24 fps. In the case of some of these 70's TV shows, this was they're only appearance on super 8!

[Osi Osgood]

When I first collected Super 8, I had both the Star Wars part 1, flat, and the part 2 in scope. As anyone can see, the beginning shot on part 1 is in scope, so I added that to the beginning of part 2, as it just seemed to belong there!

[Mike Newell]

Star Wars 2x400. Nice print with good amount of colour from Paul Foster.

[Brian Fretwell]

Carry on Cleao walton 400ft cut down plus a copy of reel 2 of the feature (4x400ft) I bought cheap, possibly at the closing down sale) as it had poor stripe and the sound hadn't been recorded. I did record it but the short cuts made it difficult to sync. Both on Agfa so good colouors.

[Osi Osgood]

They did release it flat.

[Graham Ritchie]

Osi

Remember we talked about "Muscle Beach Tom" a while back, it was in Scope, now this surprised me below, on the Derann list of new films with no mention of it in Scope. This raises the question, and I think its a real possibility that it might have been released in "flat" as well.

[Osi Osgood]

Happy to have screened my two latest acquisitions, two Cineavision Tom and Jerry's, "Busy Buddies', and "Pups on a Picnic", both with not stellar color, but not faded. That is, I think that they, like most of the Animex Cineavision scope prints, the color was never stellar, just printed that way, but I had never seen "Busy Buddies'" before, which was better than the later "Tot Watchers'.

[Brian Fretwell]

They dies with their boots on, both Derann 400ft extracts and ther trailer for The Empire Strikes Back, Derann Moviola "Import" 'scope, great colour but bought cheap as "out of rack", but my projector gets it in OK at maximum adjustment.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Chip,

Cheeky!

[Chip Gelmini]

North by Northwest full feature.....

[Douglas Meltzer]

Mike,

There's enough slapstick & car chases in these to make it worthwhile, but I agree that it was Fields' timing and that drawling delivery of his that made for his funniest moments.

[Mike Newell]

I watched Universal 8's The Best of Horror Part II, a 400' silent compilation of 8 Castle Films headline editions. This grouping consists of The Mummy's Ghost, Doom of Dracula, Revenge of the Creature, The Deadly Mantis, One Million B.C., Bride of Frankenstein, War of the Planets and It Came from Outer Space.



I'll be striping this and adding sound to show at the upcoming CineSea at the end of September.

Can you imagine how well they would have sold in a sound edition. I came across a best of WC Field 400 in silent mode . All WC Field’s humour was verbal what’s the point 🤪

[Douglas Meltzer]

Brian,

Thanks. A 4x400' version would have been terrific!

[Brian Fretwell]

Sorry typo there, it should have been 2x400ft. My keyboad is currently in a less than optimum place and I can't see both it and the screen comfortably at the same time as I am using a secondary computer.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Brian,

4x400' Ken cutdowns of Empire? I thought there were just the two, along with the Ken 200' version.