What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Melvin England]

A mixed bag tonight in the Man Cave.

The list looks like this....


The Treasures of Chartwell - 1x 200' - A look at the house and grounds where Sir Winston Churchill lived from 1922 onwards.

Girls Girls Girls - 1x 400' - Elvis Presley. Just picked up the soundtrack cd so thought it would be good to "watch" the songs, too !

Alien - 1x 400' - Sigourney Weaver and friends.

The Poseidon Adventure - 1x 400' - A good edit, not withstanding the voice over narration. Nice to see Mr. Hackman at his best. Still great colour, too !

The Lady Vanishes - 4x 400' - Margaret Lockwood in the Hitchcock classic. A Walton film.

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[Melvin England]

No, Brian. Just a genuine spling mistak on my behalf.

Good edit, though.

[Brian Fretwell]

A couple of Walto 200ft reels, Pink on the Cob (a Pink Panther Cartoon) and Black Beauty on Agfa and late Fuji resoectively, bith had perfect colour and sharpness.

[Brian Fretwell]

Melvin, I think the film is The Curse of the Crimson Altar, not Alter - despite listing on the Derann used films lists having that spelling several times. Or was that a subtle joke from you or indication that you bought it from one of this listings?

[Melvin England]

Me too, Doug. My problem is that mine is on 1x1200' spool and my GS1200 is on the blink at the moment and is the only one with that capacity.

Anyway.... to last night....


Fun in Florida - 1x 200' - Travelogue from Castle Films

California - The Golden State - 1x 200' - Travelogue as above

The Cinema Steps Out - 1x 200' - Interesting documentary from the Look at Life series

Review of 1964 - 1x 200' - Black and white printed on colour film I suspect. Picture quality is superb, though.

The Curse of The Crimson Alter - 1x 200' - Christopher Lee, Mark Eden (Alan Bradley for all UK Coronation Street fans) and did I spot Boris Karloff ?

The Godfather - 2x 600' - What a superb edit of what is such a long film.

The Godfather Part 2 - 2x 600' - Not so good edit but still really worth watching.

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[Douglas Meltzer]

Gremlins - Derann 2x600', mono version.

It had been a long time since I last screened this. A very nice print with an excellent edit by Keith Wilton.

[Douglas Meltzer]

I watched a number of trailers, including one from Steel Valley for the 1946 Stairway To Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death).

[Graham Ritchie]

Gave the GS1200 a run last night with my favorite Scope reel, all the following films are on one Elmo 1200ft reel, with "The Never Ending Story" due out soon from Imprint, which I must add I wont be getting as its very expensive which I should add has everything in in it except the kitchen sink, well almost. I thought I would run the old Derann print I bought from them long ago. I did start to think that this print had slight fade 20 odd years ago but to date it still looks the same, so I was wrong. Anyway I still consider this Scope release to be one of the best 600ft digests that Derann released.

A couple of previous screen shots below which includes "She Flies" a must in scope and "Peter Pan" 2005 the live version trl, and of course "Super 8 The Movie" which back in the day we ran both the 35mm prints.

[Brian Fretwell]

A few trailers for me too. Robin Hood (Errol Flynn) just arrived new from CHC, the re-release trailer - low grain and great colour. Phil said that due to delays he had cancelled the order with the lab but they actually arrived so were mentioed in the last newsletter. Also Two Gone with the Wind trailers, one the original, one the re-release trailer for the 70mm stereo version (which has much better colour.

[Melvin England]

No film shows in the Man Cave for the last 4 or 5 weeks or so. The reason is that I have just been on a trip...... across the pond, no less ! No, it wasn't to the USA on this occasion, but much further south. I was island hopping in the Caribbean visiting such places as St.Kitts, Barbados, St.Lucia, St.Maartens, Grenada, Antigua and several more. As you can guess, it was fantastic. I took a lot of video when there, so I have a huge editing job in front of me....not that I am complaining. Sadly no super 8 though.

Anyway, tonight, it was business as usual up there with the following programme of films....


The Fog - 1x 50' - Trailer

Soda Squirt - 1x 200' - A Flip the Frog cartoon featuring caricatures of Laurel & Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Mae West and others.

Warner Brothers 25th Anniversary - 1x 200' - A Who's Who of stars on their books all those years ago.

Star Trek - "Space Seed" - 3x 400' - The one with Ricardo Montalban as Khan, who re-appeared in the film Star Trek II

The Ghost of St.Michaels - 4x 400' - Will Hay comedy also starring a very young Charles Hawtrey.

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[Brian Fretwell]

Derann's "import" 400ft of Taste the Blood of Dracula" and what I thought was the first part of the Derann 3x400ft of The Road to Bali followed by part 3. When checking further I found the first part must have been from a US full feature release as it is a Cine Magnetics print. Still with a "Road" film the fact that a lot is missing doesn't spoil the jokes.

[Lincoln Thorn]

Screened EMPIRE STRIKES BACK for my family this evening.

[Jason Ewing]

I'm new to the forum and the only film I have is home movies from my childhood. If anyone has duplicate films they would like to pass along for a reasonable price, it would be great to have a few to run through my projector.

[Melvin England]

Now the festivities are in the past, time to crawl back into the Man Cave for my Saturday night entertainment and what was my final show of the year.

It consisted of......


(No South Pacific in any shape or form!!!)

Royal Wedding - 1x 75' Trailer - Fred Astaire and Jane Powell

My Blue Heaven - 1x 75' Trailer - Betty Grable

Calamity Jane - 1x 50' Trailer - Doris Day

Saturday Night Fever - 1x 100' Trailer(s) - Both the trailer and the teaser.

Muhammad Ali v Leon Spinks - 1x 400' - The boxing match that Ali actually LOST.

Rocky - 5x 600' - Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burgess Meredith.


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[Osi Osgood]

That was a wonderful story, Steve.