What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Melvin England]

Tonight's line up in the Man Cave had a mostly musical theme to it yet again.



The show consisted of......

Flash Gordon - 1x 50' Trailer - Lots of Queen music.

Schindler's List - 1x 50' (ish) Trailer - Excellent trailer to a monumental film.

The King and I - 1x 50' Trailer - Yul and Debs !

Showboat - 1x 100' Trailer - Saw the full length a couple of weeks ago.

South Pacific - 1x 60' - Rossano Brazzi and the recently departed Mitzi Gaynor.

The Sound of Music - 1x 70' - This was the "flat" version which differs from the anamorphic version regardless of the fact this is actually letterbox widescreen!

Calamity Jane - 4x 600' - Doris Day and Howard Keel.......oh...and The Deadwood Stage !


I always find it a bit weird that I usually write up these postings at about 11pm straight after the show, when really it is still afternoon in the States or morning in New Zealand. Just a comment.

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[Melvin England]

No film shows last Saturday night in the Man Cave. The room lay silent, as did the entire house. Its owner being 140 miles away surrounded by like minded people, many of whom frequent this forum, watching films all day, and even a midnight matinee (!!!!!!) in a town you may have heard of called....er....Blackpool !!

A superb weekend. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

However, time now to project some of those precious purchases made a couple of days ago and tonight (Tuesday) I was joined by my audience Mrs. E !


My Fair Lady - 1x 100' Trailer in Scope (although I watched it flat tonight). Very good colour and a brilliant synopsis.

Calamity Jane - 1x 50' Trailer - Finally got a copy of the trailer to go with my full length feature.

Eumig RS3000 - 1x 100' @ 18fps - An interesting little item this one. A small professional film promoting this machine with all the reasons why you would want to watch your movies on a small built in screen instead of projecting across a room.

Bats In The Belfry - 1x 200' - Woody Woodpecker. Really pleased I tracked this one down as it has been an old favourite of mine since the 1970's which I managed to obtain a 16mm black and white copy some years back, but now have it in (really good) colour on super 8

Road Runner and Wyle Cayote - 1x 200' - Not sure of this Warner Brothers title as it is in Spanish but as there is no actual dialogue, this can be enjoyed by anyone.

Acrobatty Bunny - 1x 200' - Bugs Bunny in another Merrie Melody caper.

Airplane - 3x 600' - OMG!..... Never thought I would find a copy of this FULL LENGTH..... but there it was... and here it is! Picture is slightly warm but all the colours are there. The sound is very good most of the time. Just spotted one section (singsong for the girl on a drip) which was slightly jittery sound. Otherwise fine.


I did buy more, but will probably leave those until Saturday.

Watch this space!!

[Brian Fretwell]

For me, from Blackpool buys, Cross Country Detours (Merrie Melody) a sort of cartoon travelogue featuring a running gag of an Alaskan dog running to California for the trees!! Also the 600ft colour cut down of Genevieve. Both had great colour.

[Brian Fretwell]

Two more from Blackpool "Wilie the Operatic Whale". Great colour but sound a little off (bad stripe?) and my raffle win the 200ft B&W "Hellfighters" a good B&W cutdown/selected scenes with good picture and sound.