What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Phil Moors]

We watched Zulu full length on Super 8 scope.

[Chip Gelmini]

December 31, 2022

Happy New Year everyone!.

My annual list of 8mm (and others) for all of 2022 begins below.....

[Steve Klare]

Christmas time is kind of a big deal film-wise around here. Usually the week between Christmas and New Year's is night after night of film shows and the maximum compliment of gauges and machines. We got a late start starting last night, but we had a great show!

Silent Night (16mm, Castle Films, 1949, the shortest 16mm film I've ever seen!)
The Small One (S8, Derann)
White Pass and Yukon (S8, one of my own)
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Concert (Projected DVD)

White Pass and Yukon is two cartridges of 100D I shot when we stopped off in Skagway, Alaska on our cruise this summer and rode the White Pass and Yukon narrow gauge railroad up into the mountains. It was a hot July and August, so I held off sending it for processing until October. I spliced the two rolls on a 200 Foot reel and set it aside. Before last night, nobody saw all of the footage including me! It is a nice piece of film: all the footage came out well. Maybe some time when I have a partial cartridge I'll do some titling and finish the story it's telling.

White Pass and Yukon Railroad!

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas Concert is a DVD we had for years before my wife gave me a VP one Christmas. It's 10 times the show on a big screen with a nice audio system that it is on a TV screen, so these past few years it's become a tradition!

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas

[Mike Brantley]

Laurel and Hardy That's My Wife, silent version from Blackhawk. It was a gift from a friend.

[Lee Mannering]

You only live twice Scope feature. A reel treat for us earlier this year and what a great movie to treasure.
Went to the cinema to see the full length Muppet Christmas Carol so joyful, then came home to watch the S8 trailer as you do.

[Phil Moors]

Last night we watched Super 8 ‘Shopping for a Queen’ Derann’s Look at Life. Derann’s Pathe News 1965, I think it’s called a year in our time. Trailers for ‘The Untouchables’ in Scope, ‘Circus World’ in Scope, ‘Lawrence in Arabia’ and our full length feature ‘Zulu’, in scope, great print.

[Steve Klare]

My son is home from College, so he requested a favorite from when he was a little kid: The Titfield Thunderbolt (Derann, 4x400')

(When he was maybe kindergarten-age, I used to run Reel 2 all by itself because he loved the battle between the locomotive and the steamroller, but he's a sophisticated adult now and wanted the other three reels too!)

I needed something compatible as an opener: The Engine Driver (1x200')

British Steam was alive and well on Long Island tonight!

[Graham Ritchie]

This one tonight I up-loaded a short extract from it a few years back

[Chip Gelmini]

Well allow me to add my name to the list of SNOWMAN viewings a few days ago! It was spliced on the front of SECRET OF NIHM...............

[Lee Mannering]

Grahame we had a birthday party for Mickey that year and I filmed it in S8 Scope. Memorable time and so much fun.

[Graham Ritchie]

Tonight it been a bit of a Mickey night, which included Mickey Mouse The First Fifty Years. Its hard to believe I bought it new when it came out around 1978-79. Although the print has slight fade, its lasted really well over the years.

[Melvin England]

If you read my last contribution on this topic, you will know that I had a problem not having a 1600' take up spool to use for the first half of a feature film. Luckily, I found the splice at 600', ran that off onto another spool and so tonight my show was......

West Side Story - The complete feature (for the first time) on 1x 600' 1x1600' (holding 1000') and 1x (extremely full) 1000' in glorious cinemascope and stereo.

The warm up film was the trailer to The Spy Who Loved Me. Also in scope, but was bought as a Derann white box special. Has a blue tint throughout. Doesn't spoil the action, though !!
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[Osi Osgood]

I think the main problem is the balance stripe on my print, very fuzzy ( no matter what projector I use ), and way too much. Loud hiss to it.

[Douglas Meltzer]

I recall thinking highly of the stereo audio on my print. I'll have to check it out again this season.

[Graham Ritchie]

Osi

Interesting you should say that about the soundtrack, a few years ago I picked up a second hand mono print and to be honest the mono print sounded better than the stereo one I bought new from Derann, much clearer. I think its laminated stripe as well on the early prints, not sure haven't looked at it. Its certainly sounds better, however I am happy with both, an ideal film for this time of year.