What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Brian Fretwell]

I finally got round to watching the last 2 reels of The Elstree Story (the last one's sound is at low level but does have the DFS Deran logo as a playout0 then the short Cinema Cinema, just to check the low sound wasn't due to dirty heads.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Brian, my U-8 400 footer still has some color but the 16mm digest is completely red. This is a another great review segment by John.



Last night I watched two German cutdowns from Super 8 Warehouse that I'll be re-recording.

Rebus (Appointment in Beirut) - 2x400' CMV Film. 1969 crime caper starring Laurence Harvey & Ann-Margaret. I know very little about CMV, does anyone have some info?




Golden Needles (1974) - 2x400' UFA. Action film with Joe Don Baker & Elizabeth Ashley.



Nice color on both!

[Brian Fretwell]

After watching John Clancey's review of the 4k and super 8 cut down I watched "Silent Running" a little pink/orange in some scenes but the lighter ones are pretty good for its age. No edge markings so I can't say what stock it is on.

[Lee Mannering]

Blood of the Vampire vintage Derann but still a great movie. I've run this so many times since 1980 the sound stripe is very thin indeed now. All good things seem to come to a end.
1958 movie written by Jimmy Sangster.
They also did a 400ft reel version as well.

A welcome addition to partner the S8 is the new blu-ray which is packout with stacks of interesting extras. Some of you may remember the BBC showing the film three decades ago with doctor terror introducing it. They have even included that!














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[Melvin England]

If I remember right, both films were released by DCR. I always thought in general DCR produced good quality B/W Super8 prints.

Graham - Yes, you are correct. D.C.R. Films of Sandown, Isle of Wight, UK. It was pretty good quality, but must admit the focus just a touch soft. I found I was frequently re-adjusting it. But, nevertheless, one worth having. Very bleak and dark version compared to the Carol Reed musical.
You may be interested to know that the 6x 400' version of Great Expectations is parked next to Oliver Twist on my film shelf !

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[Graham Ritchie]

Hi Melvin

Good line up of films there. I once had the David Lean feature of the 1948 "Oliver Twist". If I remember right, like "Great Expectations" another long, but well done classic David Lean film from 1946 I have been thinking of screening again it of late, as its been many years since the last one, its still on 2/1200ft Elmo reels. If I remember right, both films were released by DCR. I always thought in general DCR produced good quality B/W Super8 prints.

[Melvin England]

It was just super 8 tonight after my last outing of an 8mm/16mm mix. And the audience shrank 50%. Yep ! Just L'il Ole Me !!!!

I enjoyed......


Oliver Twist Trl - 1x 50' - The 1948 version (see below)

Great Expectations Trl 1x 50' - Both from Charles Dickens novels.

West Side Story Trl - 1x 100' - A faded letterbox version. Far far inferior to the quality of my full length feature.

Oliver Twist - 6x 400' - The full length version of the David Lean / Charles Dickens classic with Alec Guinness as Fagin and Robert Newton as Bill Sykes.

The March of The Movies - 1x 600' although looks more like 400' - Excerpts from classic films of the silent era. A sound film with narration and music.

Hollywood Dream Factory - 1x 600' - Excerpts from films from Hollywood's hey day which also included an auction of film props including Dorothy's red slippers, and the Showboat !

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[Lee Mannering]

Full steam ahead!
Nice long show using one of my HID Eumigs all standard 8 film features.

Dracula feature, Something Creeping in the Dark 1971 and Old Mother Riley Meets the vampire.
The one which is a little unique is Something creeping in the dark which if memory serves me right was the last Standard 8 feature from Derann.
Ended with the Queens coronation in Colour.


Planning a Northern Film Day for this year where we hear Northern dialect, stories of old and vintage films on screen. Oh and Northern food better not forget that. Report back later this year..




[Graham Ritchie]

"Vickers Aviation" 1/400ft B/W on B/W film stock, bought new from Derann, Vickers Aviation was a previous DCR release. A comprehensive and dramatic record of over 50 years of achievement from the Vickers Corporation.

Very interesting, its a film I enjoy watching every so often, tonight was one of them using the GS1200. Print quality and sound is not bad, considering the age of some of the source material.

[Brian Fretwell]

Yesterday the two part sot The Elephant Man I bought cheap from Derann as they were B&W prints on Agfa colour stock with "slight tints". Part one which could pass for B&W as the blue is very slight and part 3 which though described as "Yellow" is more of an pleasing "Victorian" sepia.

[Melvin England]

For once, last night my audience wasn't my wife (she was away baby sitting) but a really good friend of mine who used to collect super 8 digests in its hey day of the 1970's and early 80's. Sadly he sold all his equipment years ago but still appreciates celluloid film and the big screen.
We are both wrestling fans. Not this modern day WWF stuff, but the ITV 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon "old" type wrestling with Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and the like, so I managed to include several old wrestling films in my presentation from the likes of "Judo" Al Hayes and The Wild Man of Borneo, plus some "classic" film digests that we both used to watch all those years ago that I know were his favourites.

Some of the stuff was on 16mm but most on super 8, but am listing them ALL here and not on the 16mm thread.

So, our mega evening went like this........


16mm first

Ringside Wrestlers - 1x 900' - A couple of bouts in Hollywood from around 1964

Raslin' Rockets - 1x 400' - Another wrestling film from Wildwood, New Jersey around the same time. Both these were the "old" style, not WWF.

Bat's in The Belfry - 1x 200' Woody Woodpecker cartoon


Super 8mm


We're Wrestling Tonight - 1x 400' - Tag Match featuring "Judo" Al Hayes and Hardboiled Haggerty v Wild Man of Borneo and Rebel Ray Hunter

The Wrestling Game - 1x 400' Presented more like a documentary on the various holds / positions in wrestling, plus a short bout.

Crazy Wrestling - 1x 200' Walton's mad reel including bouts underwater, mud wrestling, women wrestling, wrestling in a ring of fish, men of restricted growth bouts and even referee's getting knocked out. Completely loopy !!! (good fun, though).

Horror Film 1x 400' - This is reel 2 of what I think is "Scars of Dracula" but neither of us can definitely confirm it. My friend is into his horror but still couldn't say for certain what it was. Christopher Lee and Patrick Troughton.

Clint Eastwood Trailer Reel - 1x 400' - The Gauntlet / Magnum Force / A Fistful of Dollars / The Enforcer / Thunderbolt and Lightfoot / Two Mules For Sister Sara / Joe Kidd

The Outlaw Josey Wales - 1x 200' - A behind the scenes documentary of the making of the film.

The Eiger Sanction - 1x 400' - Clint Eastwood / George Kennedy. Terrific edit.

Phantasm - 1x 400' - Mike Baldwin / Angus Scrimm horror.

Castle of Death - 1x200' - Walton's extract from "Vampire Circus" with Laurence Payne

Twins of Evil - 1x 200' - Peter Cushing. The 200' extracts of these last two are simply magnificent in my opinion.



So there we are. Quite a long and enjoyable night. As we say in Hull.... " It's was a long 'un, and a gud 'un !"


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[Osi Osgood]

Phil, I didn't know these existed as super 8 prints. We're these digests or features? The only thing I have ever seen of Josey Wales was a 200ft making of featurette.

[Brian Fretwell]

Recently The General, Buster Keaton, Collectors Club 7x200ft on 3M B7W stock, bought at Blackpool last year. 200ft The Hunchback of Notre Damme B7W also from Blackpool. Super 8 "June is Bustin' Out all Over" Derann, Rollercoaster Ride, Widescreen centre and Shakespeare 400, Derann all 'scope.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Phil,

Could you please tell us more about these prints? Details would be greatly appreciated.

[Phil Moors]

Tonight we are watching ‘The Towering Inferno’ scope followed by ‘The Outlaw Josey Wales’ also Scope Super 8.
a great double bill and cracking prints.