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Do you still remember the various toys that allowed viewing (or even projecting) Super8-films? This is one of them: https://obsoletemedia.org/action-replay/
It got sold under various different brand names and was still in production in the 1990s!
I have got one of those - with a film made for the „750 years Berlin“-celebration in 1987. The remaining stock got sold in various souvenir shops here in Berlin as late as 2000. Nevertheless, this special 750years film is now hard to find. But this isn’t the only „rare“ title as these viewers sometimes show up on eBay with advertising reels (aka „trailers“) for „Star Trek Generations“ and Pierce Brosnan as 007 (most likely „License to kill“, maybe even „Goldeneye“). I never bought them as the seller asked at least 200€. So: how rare are these films? And are there more advertising reels for films shot in the 1980s/1990s? Anyone tried to play them at 24fps on a real projector? (The viewer’s 18fps only.)
Do you still remember the various toys that allowed viewing (or even projecting) Super8-films? This is one of them: https://obsoletemedia.org/action-replay/
It got sold under various different brand names and was still in production in the 1990s!
I have got one of those - with a film made for the „750 years Berlin“-celebration in 1987. The remaining stock got sold in various souvenir shops here in Berlin as late as 2000. Nevertheless, this special 750years film is now hard to find. But this isn’t the only „rare“ title as these viewers sometimes show up on eBay with advertising reels (aka „trailers“) for „Star Trek Generations“ and Pierce Brosnan as 007 (most likely „License to kill“, maybe even „Goldeneye“). I never bought them as the seller asked at least 200€. So: how rare are these films? And are there more advertising reels for films shot in the 1980s/1990s? Anyone tried to play them at 24fps on a real projector? (The viewer’s 18fps only.)
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