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  • Melbourne Super 8 Film Group

    The Melbourne Super 8 Film Group was a co-operative group of filmmakers (using the Super 8 medium) that existed between 1986 and 2001, and it was very dynamic (in the days before digital cameras), publishing a newsletter/magazine each month, having screenings each month, a big festival each year, and also programming films within Melbourne International Film Festival.

    As part of his "Shoring Project", Dirk de Bruyn has scanned nearly all the newsletters and released them on Vimeo.

    Here are Dirk's notes on this archive -

    "I have animated the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group Newsletters (1986-2001) as a 4k Vimeo. It is not really meant to be watched but scrolled through frame by frame. This is the first move in bringing a compacted Research Archive, an invisible history of innovative film culture in Melbourne to public international access. Please use. For extended use I recommend you download in 4K to have greatest frame to frame control of this document. These pages will eventually be available on the Melbourne Independent Filmmakers website in more accessible form (PDFs), thanks to Bill Mousoulis, the MS8FG founder. I thank Jim Bridges for his collaboration in this project. I thank Chris Windmill for lending me the bulk of the newsletters."​


    When you click the link to Vimeo, next to Volume, is Symbol called Settings, were you can slow down the SPEED, to 0.5x and also choose quality at 4K. And pause to read, it goes very Fast. Starts after 10 seconds.



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    The link to the video is: https://vimeo.com/793526440

    If you want to download it, go to https://www.4kdownload.com/downloads/34# and download and install 4K Video Downloader. You will be able to download the video in 4K.

    To view the video frame by frame use Media Player Classic - BE​ which can be downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/mpcbe/

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    • #3
      "The Melbourne Super 8 Film Group" First started by Bill Mousoulis at RMIT University Melbourne VIC, Australia.

      They met every 2nd Tuesday of the Month for 16 years, every film Screening was like a Mini Film Festival, plus they had Film Festivals too.

      Here in PDF Form is every MS8FG Newsletter all 170 Issues of them from 1986 to 2001



      https://innersense.com.au/super8/newsletters.html

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      • #4
        What a strange way to release a printed publication online...

        Why not just do it as PDF. At least everyone could read it then without problems.

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        • #5
          I attended a few of the Melbourne Super 8 Film Group screenings and also saw a few of their Super 8 films at the Melbourne International Film Festival. One of the things that caused it to wind down was the withdrawal of Super 8 sound film cartridges. Most of the screenings that they presented that I saw were in this format.
          Last edited by David Kilderry; April 13, 2025, 07:23 AM. Reason: Typo

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Juergen Kellermann View Post
            What a strange way to release a printed publication online...

            Why not just do it as PDF. At least everyone could read it then without problems.
            Just click onto „direct PDF download“

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