What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Steve Klare]

I'm demounting the anamorphics and reverting to 4x3 tomorrow, so I thought I'd finish up 'scope with this:

IT’S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD 2 x 400ft. Col SCOPE

800 Feet of Greed, Violence, Mayhem and other dark aspects of Human Nature! (-surprising they left out lust!)

It's different from every other Derann print I own: it was bought Stateside from E-Bay. Other than a few from CineSea all the rest have come from the UK, most directly from The Source!
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[Graham Ritchie]

Hi Doug

Its nice to see the color on some films staying good, "The Black Stallion" is one, very nice print those couple of earlier screen shots taken a while back look just the same.

I watched the blu-ray release of "Jeremiah Johnson" not so long ago. I really like films made with stunning scenery, this is one I never tire watching, good movie

Steve

I agree about Forest Gump, a while ago I was lucky enough to come across the musical trailer on 35mm which features The Byrds and extracts from the film, its really well done. Its number two on this 35mm reel of film just after Tina.

[Steve Klare]

I decided to go a little educational on my wife and son tonight, so I showed them this:

WEST SIDE STORY S/V Inc’s “Krupke”, “Pretty” and “Quintet” 1 x 400`. Scope. Col. Price code G

The educational difference is I projected it without the anamorphic for maybe the first minute: showed them how CinemaScope really works. ("See how skinny they all are?")

The reel itself is kind of special to me: when my soon to be 21 year old was in Kindergarten, my wife asked him "What do you want to buy Daddy for Christmas?", and with Derann literature in hand, this is what they agreed upon. (We already had "America/Maria".)

After that, we turned on the VP and watched Forrest Gump.

-I can't help but think if Gump had come along earlier there would have been some kind of Super-8 prints: it is a great story and the movie was meant from the very start to be on the big screen.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Graham, The Black Stallion print looks beautiful!

I watched The Saga of Jeremiah Johnson (approx 300') from Red Fox Films. This is one of those Robbins Nest behind the scenes promos that made it to Super 8mm. While it is totally faded, the print is sharp and I found it interesting to watch Robert Redford & Sydney Pollack at work.

[Graham Ritchie]

I haven't screened this one in years, so last night it was "The Black Stallion" feature on 2/1200ft Elmo reels. After adjusting the black masking and warming up the GS1200 "its winter at the moment" away we went, or should I say away I went, as I was watching it on my own. Half way through the lamp went out thought it must be the lamp. Wrong it was the wire at the back of the socket. The fix was easy, just replace the socket, clean the pins and away I went. I should add that the lamp life has exceeded my expectations, and it still looks really good. The Osram 250 watt lamp has really worked out well using a external power supply, color wise with this lamp "The Black Stallion" looks great".

All up it only took me about 10 minutes to change the lamp socket, another plus with using an external power supply I still managed to take a couple of screen shots before the socket packed up, afterwards it was even brighter. This print has lasted really well with no signs of any fade

[Melvin England]

After a couple of weeks indulging in 16mm, it was back to super 8 tonight.


Jurassic Park - 1x 600' - The edit just gets better and better every time one watches it. Breath taking !

Clara's Heart - 1x 1000' and 1x 800' - Starring Whoopi Goldberg. As you may guess, this one was (very good) optical sound. I have had this one for several months and finally viewed it for the first time tonight. A rare occasion when the first time I ever see a film, it is a super 8 version. A real luxury. It does have colour fade but not completely and has hardly a scratch on it so the actual image was really good. I know we quite rightly moan when our prints start turning to pink/red, but I am always grateful that the image itself doesn't fade, so as long as it is not beetroot or scratched to hell, it is worth watching.

[Brian Fretwell]

Last night the last part of Bambi and Roller Coaster Rabbit

[Douglas Meltzer]

Plus it has one of Christopher Lee's best death scenes! Sorry about giving the ending away....

[Lee Mannering]

Drac has risen from the grave.
Beautiful quality and well edited

[Steve Klare]

I'm still set up for two-machine 'scope, so I decided to run 'scope extracts from "Grease".

So I started with this one:

SUMMER NIGHTS- (GREASE) 1 x 200ft. Col. SCOPE. Price Code E

-The very beginning at the beach, the opening title sequence and the song Summer Nights at Rydell High.

I also ran a second Derann Grease "extract" that is so rare that it's literally one of a kind! It's the last reel of the full feature, recorded in sync, so obviously it once had a leader, but somewhere before it was supposed to join the other 6 reels, it was involved in some mishap at Derann and the head was lost. (You might say it was "decapitated"!)

It was on Derann's used list as an orphaned reel and showed up here with no leader and an abrupt beginning in Principal McGee's office as she and Blanche bid the graduating class farewell over the PA system. It runs all the way to the end of the closing credits from there. I took pity on it and put some black leader at the head, and it's had a pretty successful career as kind of an accidental extract in the years since! (Accidental or not, it actually works this way.)

[Graham Ritchie]

That's right Graham, the last new 200 footer I bought and sadly things was coming near the end of the Derann days was "One Froggy Evening". I always bought new prints in support of Derann as much as possible, to this day, I have never sold one of them and never will. What I tried to do, was buy one new feature a year, films like "Rescuers Down Under" was my first followed by "Beauty and The Beast" and "The Lion King". The quality of the Disney prints were, and still are really outstanding. My favourite new shorts were the Silly Symphony series, those color prints are to this day truly amazing to watch.

[Graham Sinden]

that's a slightly earlier one than I remember which was £27.99 for a long time until the labs closed. Still amazing value for the time and even more so these days. We had it good then.

Graham S

[Graham Ritchie]

Price code "E" when I was looking through my old Derann newsletters price wise those 200 footers were good value.

[Lee Mannering]

Completed a new Stereo sound track master for my vintage Ken 400 of Alien. What a difference it makes. Crystal clear and frights from both sides. Great fun.

[Brian Fretwell]

A UK TV channel "That's '60's" has recently been showing an appearance of "The Nice" playing their intrumental version of America!