What 8mm films did I watch last night?

[Osi Osgood]

Sorry to hear that the balance stripe head has worn out. Sometimes, it seems like it's just easier finding a good used projector for parts, with good heads, than trying to find the heads separate! We watched our Howdy Doody episode on super 8 today. It must be a generational thing ... I get a lot more out of it. My kids got more humor out of the fact that part of his name is "Doody"!🤨

[Brian Fretwell]

Disney time yesterday with "the Small One" 200ft, "A Walt Disney Christmas" compilation reel of edited cartoons (Both FUji and fading a little but good colour on most scenes then "Mickey's Christmas Carol" Derann's release on Agfa stock with a stunning quality (Definition and colour) picture, just a pity my Eumig GL926 stereo projector's balance stripe head has worn out!

[Osi Osgood]

Just watched "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century". I don't quite get why that has become so popular with me now, but I did finally luck out on a good color copy of it. What surprised me about this copy is that the previous owner, (who must have really loved the film as well), not only rerecorded the whole 2X400ft digest, but added the scenes from the 200ft version, originally a promo reel for the film that Universal 8 released on Super 8, which amazingly has good color, which I had never seen for that release, ( the 200ft release has not fared well ), and it came on an overflowing 600ft Bonum reel with one of those "colorfresh" packets inside the plastic storage sleeve. Maybe that is why the color has held up so we'll. 😀
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[Brian Fretwell]

Last night being Christmas Eve for me it had to be the Tom and Jerry "The Night Before Christmas2" A couple of cinema happt CHristmas.New Year messages and the trailer to "White Christmas".

[Steve Klare]

Tonight: Christmas Eve 2024

-The Small One

(-and my wife's Christmas Village!)

[Melvin England]

I do believe there are a few really decent copies originating from Italy
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UPDATE Re South Pacific

With my own quote above, I was getting confused with My Fair Lady which has been confirmed as being available on super 8 from Italy elsewhere on this forum. I don't have any solid evidence that South Pacific ever made it to super 8 from Italy or anywhere else...........but it MIGHT have been! Do you know any different ?

[Melvin England]

..... so it is a fairly "recent" print as far as super 8 goes. The "There Ain't Nothin' Like a Dame" would be fantastic, particularly if it was also in stereo (appreciate this copy won't be) as the stereo separation of the singing voices on the soundtrack cd is massive. I would have thought that either "Bali Hai" or " I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair" would have been a more suitable second choice. But hey! I am now on the look out.......!

[Graham Ritchie]

Hi Melvin

I had a look at a old Derann trailer list it includes "South Pacific" new at-14 pound.

Under musicals not trailers..."South Pacific" "1958" reel, "There's Nothing like a Dame" and "Honey Bun" 1/200ft Col Scope price code "E" ie 25.99 pound Year, 2006-2007.

[John Armer]

I watched a 600ft reel of HOLLYWOOD: THE DREAM FACTORY. Nice colour but a few marks from the master. A good documentary about MGM. Who put this out? It's the sort of thing Perry's might have released, but I suspect Derann got the negative from somewhere - Red Fox?

[Melvin England]

Thanks for the info Graham.

I did not know about the 200' scope version at all. I will certainly look out for it. I do recall, however, that at one of Ged's interview events at Blackpool in either 2022 or 2023, he did mention that one of his biggest regrets was not being able to secure the rights to release South Pacific as a full length feature (although I do believe there are a few really decent copies originating from Italy) therefore did not expect to hear about this one from you.

Interesting to note that my original trailer, the one splattered with on screen reviews from celebrated film reviewers, came in a Derann box. My new one was just in a plain box. It surprises me that of the two, Derann chose to release the less favourable "review" version as the second version is far better, unless they released BOTH, or the box was swapped before I bought it?
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[Graham Ritchie]

Nice selection there Melvin, regarding "South Pacific" Derann did release a nice 200ft Scope reel, here are a couple of earlier screen shots well worth looking out for.

[Melvin England]

Earlier this week my latest Ebay purchase dropped through the letter-box, so I thought it would be a good idea to test it this evening before leaving feedback. It was two musical trailers on one 200' spool.

Oklahoma - 1x 75' Trailer

South Pacific - 1x 75' Trailer - Now I know I already have the trailer, which I have viewed several times recently (like last week), BUT this trailer is completely different to my first one. My original one has reviews from various people splattered across the screen as bits of the film run in the background. This one concentrates on scenes and songs from the film...... and is far better in my opinion. So, let me confirm, there are at least TWO different non-anamorphic widescreen trailers out there for this film. Both this and the Oklahoma trailer had good colour so the seller will get favourable feedback.

But now, onto the real reason I cranked up the projector this evening. As it is Christmas I wanted to spend some time in the company of four great lads. I'm not mentioning any names but you will know full well who they are......


Help - 1x 60' Trailer

Yellow Submarine - 1x 100' Trailer

A Hard Day's Night - 1x 50' Trailer

The Making of A Hard Day's Night - 1x 100'

Mod Odyssey - 1x 300' - I think there has been some bits added to this reel as there are obvious signs of two types of film makes being used.

A Hard Day's Night - 5x 600' - I know this film does not run that long to warrant 5 reels....but that is what it came on.... brand new, originally.



Was it a great night ?


yeah! Yeah ! YEAH!

[Steve Klare]

I remember that “Sinbad”!
-Friday Night Feature at the Ocean Holiday years ago!

[Douglas Meltzer]

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Columbia 4x200' silent. I have the feature, but I wanted to revisit one of my favorite cutdowns. Columbia did a great edit job on this one.

[Melvin England]

After savouring the delights of 16mm the last two weeks, it was back to super duper 8 tonight.

The line up was as follows....

South Pacific - 1x 60' Trailer - Rossano Brazzi and Mitzi Gaynor. I know I saw it a few weeks ago... but .. so what !!

The Sting - 1x 75' Trailer - A very faded but good trailer to the corking Newman / Redford film.

The War of The Worlds - 1x 50' Trailer - The original 1950's version.

Ginger Nutt's Christmas Circus - 1x 200' - Well... it's the festive season!

A Walt Disney Christmas - 1x 400' - See above!!!!

The Wizard of Oz - 4x 600' - The Garland classic. I know it is not long enough to justify 4x 600' reels but that is how I got it, with reel 3 only being about 250'. My copy in superb condition.

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