What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Steve Klare]

Geri's Game is kind of the Holy Grail for me!

(-without the vicious rabbit, the shrubbery and the coconuts, of course!)

I've never seen one for sale anywhere.

I have Early Bloomer, most likely the test print that showed at the BFCC just after Derann announced the release (-not long afterwards it was on their used list and I grabbed it.). We showed it at CineSea some years later and the next morning I'm riding down a pretty full elevator headed to breakfast and one of the guys asked "Where did you get that print?".

(-too late!)

[Brian Fretwell]

I wish I had bought the penguins "Christmas caper" I have it as an extra on a dvd, but can't remember which one!

[Steve Klare]

Hi Brian,

According to IMDB, The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper showed with Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. If you have that DVD, it's probably your best bet.

I have "Penguins" and it is really good. Like Knick-Knack, the sound is good, but the volume is low. I think where I'm getting into trouble here is most of the time I show these on a monaural projector and these are both stereo prints. Lacking the power of the right-side channel, the sound is low. It's not a big deal: I just twist the knob.

There are about five movies that we quote a lot around here (Young Frankenstein is a major one). "Penguins" is also one of them:
"Yes, Rico! -Ka-Boom!"

[Graham Sinden]

Thanks for the info Steve, but you will not find any Pixar cartoons on a Aardman DVD and vice versa .

[Steve Klare]

Actually, Dreamworks distributed Aardman's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and produced The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper: that's how they wound up in theaters together as Feature and Short.

My theory isn't bearing results though: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit disks I'm seeing for sale don't have Christmas Caper.

-then maybe it came with Madagascar itself?