What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Osi Osgood]

And just such glorious color. I have it too! I had a pirate copy of the feature back in the mid 80's and it was horrible, the Derann print was awesome, and even had the original trailer with a young Walt Disney himself, as well as the rerelease trailer. I also spliced in an earlier, late 70's ( I think ), trailer, also LPP.

[Graham Ritchie]

Last night Snow White, what a gem all my Disney features are mounted on Elmo 1200/800ft reel with only one stop. I hand rewind all Super8 and 16mm films. I don't use a projector for that purpose. One mistake though, I did last night, and that was not to adjust the side black masking, top and bottom was into the black, but got lazy not adjusting the side. This print I bought from Derann 30 years ago. The Snow White release onto Super8 would never have happened back in the 1970s-80s Disney would have never allowed it, so here it was at last the full feature for the film collector to own, amazing and all thanks to Derann.

The below screen shots were taken last night about 6-7 ft wide on screen, its always hard to take quick screen shots from a distance with movement

[Brian Fretwell]

A couple of rather sepea looking colour Unversal 8 400ft reels, The Phantom of the Opera and Frenzy (with extensions from the 1x200ft.

[Lincoln Thorn]

I'm a big fan of the Purple Noon and Tom Ripley in general (though I've not seen the Netflix adaptation yet)!

My print is a Japanese digest of Purple Noon, but it condenses the story down pretty well! I highly recommend watching the full film. Alain Delon is wonderful in it.

I'll try to take some pictures of the print and share

[Douglas Meltzer]

Lincoln,

I know Purple Noon is based on The Talented Mr. Ripley, however I've only seen the 1999 Anthony Minghella film and the recent Netflix series, both of which I liked. How is the digest?

[Lincoln Thorn]

I've been a bad film collector as of late and haven't made a lot of time to watch all my wonderful reels. Life gets busy and passes us by without realizing it!

That has changed over the last week as I've hooked my projector back up, gave her a good cleaning, and have been enjoying a lot of my digests!

Recently I watched my 400 ft (faded) reel of Alain Delon Purple Noon!

Tonight, I plan on screening my reel 2 of ROBOCOP.

[Douglas Meltzer]

Osi,

There was a company that put out short 50' Super 8mm films of popular singers & bands. These were advertised in various music publications and fan magazines. There's no company information on the leader. The interesting thing is that these were silent!
The Elvis short is actually 100' (B&W) and is taken from the 1970 movie Elvis: That's the Way It Is.
Revolution, 50' (color), is from a promotional film the Beatles did in 1968.

I've striped both of these and added sync sound.

[Osi Osgood]

Douglas, who released that Elvis song?

[John Burgess]

Recent purchase from CHC, “Every Days a Holiday”,
5x400 colour print (1965). Mike Sarne, John Leyton, Freddie and the Dreamers and Ron Moody star in this comedy musical. Thin story line , but never less lots of hit songs of the day and a reminder of how much fun it was in the 60’s.
I was amazed how good the colour was, yes it was a Standard 8 copy !!
John

[Douglas Meltzer]

A few 50 footers...

Cinema, Cinema
Phantom of the Opera (1925) trailer
The Revenge of Frankenstein trailer
Monty Python & the Holy Grail trailer
Let's Sing with Popeye
Godzilla vs. Megalon trailer
The Final Countdown trailer
Elvis - You've Lost That Loving Feeling
The Beatles - Revolution

[Oliver Feld]

It was time to screen „Bambi“…❤️

[Graham Ritchie]

After watching "Wild Hogs" I had just enough time to watch a Super8 short. I picked out the Silver edition I bought new at the time of its release back in 1978 "Mickey Mouse the first 50 years" the print still looks pretty good and has lasted well, good film too.

[Osi Osgood]

Though a small "trifle", I finally was able to buy a low fade print of the trailer to the animated feature, "Gulliver's Travels". This is yet another case of the trailer on Super 8, looking a good deal better than the feature! Though LPP, the feature is certainly dupey, so much so that the daytime shots are fairly over exposed looking and yet, the original theatrical trailer, looks amazing!

[Melvin England]

After enjoying the delights of cinemascope last week, I had left the projector and lens set up in the right position in my Man Cave so decided to have another show this evening.

So...... my cinemascopic delights tonight were......


The Beatles Come To Town - 1x 200' - You know who they were. This film was presented in 50 shades of..... RED !

Movietone News - 1x 200' - Included the Forth Road rail and car bridges and Farnworth Air Show

We've Got a Show- 1x 200' - Cliff and friends give a show in an old theatre.

Riddle of The Sands - 4x 600' - Simon McCorkindale and Jenny Agutter in an espionage thriller. Beautiful colour and hardly a scratch.

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[Osi Osgood]

I just watched a 9 minute documentary on low fade film stock, of Dr. Zhivago. It was one of those short documentaries that studios used to release, on 16mm, for local TV affiliates, from the early 60's, all the way until the late 70's. One of the best moments was the original screen tests of Geraldine Chaplin, before she was officially cast. Nice footage of Lean himself.