What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Steve Klare]

That's the one, Graham!

AMERICA And “Maria” From West Side Story 1 x 200`. SCOPE. Price code E

After "Maria", "America" starts where Bernardo says "Anita, Josefina..."

Doug showed it 14 feet wide Saturday Night at the last CineSea. Being that I only own the thing (-and it's NOT my projector and screen), I don't think it's too boastful to say I was impressed!

[Graham Ritchie]

Nice line up of films Steve, if I remember right Derann released America as a 200 footer. Years ago at a convention the Super 8 feature came up for sale for $50 dollars on Elmo 800ft reels. The feature was sadly minus the first 20 minutes or so. I think it was a Kemski release. To be honest I was never really interested in watching the feature itself, but removing "America" onto one of my Scope mix reels I thought was better use of it, hence this Super 8 extract of it made its way to you-tube. I like the idea of a mix of shorts joined up onto larger reels and this one was an excellent addition.

[Steve Klare]

It took me a long time to assemble a good 'scope setup. It started with an anamorphic, but I had no mount. For a long time I made these absolutely awful jury-rigs with glued-together scrap lumber to hold the lens in good (enough) alignment, but the picture spilled off the screen unless I planted the machine in the middle of the dining room table. (-not good PR for the Film-Collecting Family Man!)

I solved the first problem in 2018. We went to Germany for Christmas. I took the opportunity to order a mount from FFR Filmtechnik and have it delivered to my Aunt and Uncle's house before we got there.

-I just had a feeling about it, so I ordered two!

That's problem #1 solved.

Problem #2 was solved when an auditorium lens arrived

So now I had one good setup to watch 'scope films that was easy to set up and kept the picture on screen even with the machine back where it belonged.

Gradually more pieces became available: a second anamorphic and only recently a second auditorium lens.

-for the very first time, I set them both up at the same time last night!

Three machines, three films, no threading up in the dark. (No awkward pauses either.)
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For the show, I got out some old favorites in honor of the 4th of July, with an emphasis on Super-8 'scope!

Sounds of Arizona (S8 'scope)
Michigan Canoe Trails (16mm)
America from West Side Story (S8 'scope)
1776 (Projected Video)

[Douglas Meltzer]

Brian,

Years ago I purchased a used print of Silent Movie to find that the German language title cards had been cut out, resulting in bad audio jumps. I later bought another one and it had been cut up the same way!

[Brian Fretwell]

After the video on Piccalo films history link I watched my 400ft of Silent Movies and was delighted to find, even though it is on Eastmancolor stock, that it still has good colours though rather brown in the shadows. I finished off my half hour show with trailers for A View to a Kill (Derann British FIlm Year logo release) and a rathe blue tinted Romancing the Stone and Jewl of the Nile.