What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Brian Fretwell]

The two Walton film extracts from Vampire Circus, the 200ft pre creit and the 400ft cut-down, both on Fuji stock. Good colour though the 200ft has always been paler than the 400ft.

[Brian Fretwell]

Both of the Ken Films The Empire Strikes Back 400ft extracts (now rather red) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother 400ft that strangely had the sound on the balance trck only which I copied to the main track on my Eumig 926 a long time ago.

[Richard Bock]

Saw a Blackhawk Standard 8mm Print of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1922) Silent, Starring Lon Chaney. Incredible physical performance by Chaney with terrific makeup and costumes. Great crowd scenes and sets. Chaney inhabits the role of the Hunchback, his facial expressions and most of all the gymnastic physicality are something to marvel at. I was surprised, seeing this little Blackhawk 8mm print how engrossed emotionally I was with the story and the characters. On (5) 400' reels.

[Osi Osgood]

We watched our newest acquisition again, "The Triumph of Lester Snapwell", more of a silent comedy than a history of photography, produced by the Kodak company. Quite entertaining! Has color fade, but extremely rare, and hey, Buster always looked better without color in the first place.

[Brian Fretwell]

After the talk of cuts (or not) to a stage version os "Life of Brian" I decided to rewatch the 2x400ft extracts from Monty Python and the Holy Grail.Part one had great colour on Fuji part two a reddish/brown faded mess on Eastamn.It's a pity Studio Labs changd stock occasionally as most Waltons are still good.
the episodic nature made it easy to watch, but just a pity there was never a part three with the killer Rabbit and Holy hand grenade!!!

[Dave Bickford]

A copy of one of the very first movies ever made…1902 “A Trip To The Moon”. Blackhawk release. Bought it with my allowance money when I was a 14 year old kid. Weird, but interesting film. https://youtu.be/xLVChRVfZ74

[Brian Fretwell]

In honour of Tina Turner (and Elton Joh's last ever tour) Pinball Wizard, both 400ft cut downs edited together on the Sankyo 301 modified to take 800ft reels. Both a bit faded but the colour wasn't bad.
Also as the take up spool failed (too near the wall?) I had to rewind from the pile behind the projector (100% success) the Clooecors Club Jazz and Sand to prove all was OK after.

[Steve Klare]

It feels like it was cooked using whatever was left over in the fridge!

[Brian Fretwell]

Airplane II wasn't by the same team, I think. Some good jokes but lacking the original drive.

[Steve Klare]

Our son is home from college, so I decided to do a little multi-format show in honor of the occasion.

1) Mickey's Trailer (Super-8, Disney)
2) Rise and Fall of the Great Lakes (16mm, National Film Board of Canada) One of my favorite film makers, Bill Mason, was tasked with making an educational film about the Geology of the Great Lakes, and to his credit, made it a very watchable comedy. (I also have another 16mm one that plays this subject straight, and it is as dull as dishwater!) I went into 16mm so I could own prints of films like Rise and Fall...
3) Airplane 2, the Sequel (Projected Streaming Video) Not as good as the original (-no surprise there, I guess!), but he'd never seen it despite being a big Airplane! fan. The joy of doing it this way is we wanted to see it, we saw it, and now we don't need to store the disk!

I realized recently that when he was a little kid, Mickey's Trailer was one of Steven's favorites, but for some reason I can't even begin to define we haven't watched it in maybe 15 years. It took some searching through the 200 footers, but I found it!

[Steve Klare]

So, Osi,

The 50Hz./60Hz. thing proved to be a non-issue?

[Osi Osgood]

Willard, fun flick! We watched one of our newer acquisitions, our Indiana Jones trailer reel, on our new Eumig 940S stereo!

[Douglas Meltzer]

Willard - Piccolo Film 400'



This heartwarming story of a boy and his rats was a surprisingly big moneymaker in 1971.




Good color, decent edit, however fairly grainy.

[Dominique De Bast]

I was lucky to get the two Dorun films : Reel Collector Favourites and T3 The Crane Chase, today, after they have been held for a very long time by the Belgian customs (I wonder why, they didn't even watch the films...). I Filmguarded them to watch them tomorrow, but I couldn't resist, so I set the GS 800 (with two blade shutter and a 1.0 zoom) and started the projection. Waw. The quality is amazing. Thanks for all who make possible new releases !

[Chip Gelmini]

Last night May 3rd I screened my copy of ROMANCING THE STONE. Checking the print ahead of next Tuesday's outdoor screening. Scope stereo. All good. Although I did this on the indoor screen.