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Alrighty! We started our own personal Screenings last night, and we started with the fairly rare super 8 feature, "The Great Rupert", starring Jimmy Durante! This was released in 1951 by George Pal, with a wonderful stop motion animated Rupert! Merry Christmas!
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Today, it was Mickey's Christmas Carol. The box states stereo, but the recording is very subpar, with nearly "blurry" audio. Definitely a re-record prospect. All of these new releases, with they're truly hi-fidelity recordings, makes putting up with yesterday's "stereo" recordings almost intolerable. Oh, we also watched "Moles Christmas"! -
Agree Osi. I must have re recorded most of my collection myself, I just can't suffer bad sound.
My dad a Kentish master farmer was also a band leader so very fussy on sound quality and presentation. We inherit these things I guess.
​​​​​​​Mind you all the pro projection guys/gals would aim for projection perfection all part of being a show person.
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Very true, Lee! Last night's selection was the 1951 "A Christmas Carol" feature! Also, Tom and Jerry's Christmas cartoon!Comment
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Last night, we kept it shorter, by watching the classic WDHM 400ft, "A Walt Disney Christmas", in which, instead of 5 cartoon excepts, there are only four, which allows for more time per cartoon. Luckily, our copy is an Agfa print, so the color is still pristine!Comment
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OK, I couldn't hold back with such a " cloud of witnesses ", so we watched the "Snowman", I think our print was a later print, as it has a few splices to the negative, but a lovely film, Tobe sure! Beautiful score!Comment
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Well, it isn't technically a Christmas film, but we watched the Disney animated, "Prince and the Pauper"!Comment
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Last night was kind of an opening volley: We opened with Mr. Mannering's Christmas Trailer Reel (#1) and then the 16MM Christmas in Germany: a Story of Giving. -a story about a young girl in Frankfurt just before Christmas and her idea to surprise a lonely, elderly neighbor with a gift. It's set largely in the Christmas Market there and reminds us a lot of our own Christmas in Germany now four years ago and how special it still is to us.
After that, we streamed Lightyear. It's pretty good, yet kind of a mixture of references to a whole bunch of different movies. We counted Star Wars (of course), Star Trek, The Martian and of course a lot of echoes of Toy Story!
-somehow it felt very familiar, especially for a movie we'd never seen before!Comment
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Well ... There is snow! This one has a better stereo soundtrack. I'm really glad for our modern suppliers of soundtracks, as they are à ble to get as much out of a soundtrack, but maybe that was because of the high speed recording units that Derann used. Efficient, but not high on Fidelity.Comment
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Last night was really great! Italian dinner for our whole family at 'Il Pescatore'', a great family run Italian restaurant near here, followed by a super 8 film show accompanied by red velvet cake and ice cream! The films shown on the soup'd up 250w GS1200 were:
Christmas Trailer Reel
A Walt Disney Christmas ( great print with no fade}
The Snowman ( with re-recorded stereo}
The Bishop's Wife - digital feature on the Panasonic AE 4000
What a great time of year to be a film collector!Comment
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A surprise Christmas film that I forgot I have, " How the Animals Discovered Christmas". It was a Coronet film, made for children's classrooms, which Blackhawk Films released on super 8! It has a little fade, but still enjoyable, plus assorted cartoons!Comment
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I have "Peace on Earth," the MGM cartoon, and it must be LPP because it still looks gorgeous.Comment
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Oh, man. I worked for the TV company that distributed the Alastair Sim version. I ordered a 16mm print to screen so I could write publicity about it (I was their marketing person) and I could've kept it. That was back in the 80s when I was 12 years old, so...Comment
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I watched the Disney Christmas reel, WDHM Buck labs on Fuji, it was a little pale but all the colours are still there. Then I watched the Derann release of Santa's Workshop on Agfa to remind me how it originally looked.Comment
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