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**Dominique De Bast** · July 09, 2021, 02:31 PM

From the Canadian serie The Murders, saison 1 episode 5

**Douglas Meltzer** · July 10, 2021, 11:25 AM

Dominique,

I'm very curious to know what that episode was about!

**Dominique De Bast** · July 10, 2021, 12:52 PM

Doug, a projectionnist is found dead and there is piece of super 8 film in his pocket. SPOILER : the detectives found out that he abused girls after having drugged them and filmed them in super 8.

**Douglas Meltzer** · July 11, 2021, 11:52 AM

Dominique,

Thank you. I see that this show is available on the Sundance Now streaming service.

**Dominique De Bast** · July 11, 2021, 12:04 PM

Doug, if you get the chance to see it, I would be intersted in knowing if they use the word "video" as it has been used twice in the French dubbed version. I wonder if that was in the original dialogue. I loved the fact that the detective could use an editor without any explanation ; he deserved the right to become a member of this forum 😁

**Dominique De Bast** · July 17, 2021, 04:54 PM

Another projector in an Arsène Lupin episode (here, episode 11, saison 2)

**Dominique De Bast** · July 21, 2021, 02:51 AM

From the documentary "1968 en super 8". As the title suggests it, this year is reviewed with amateur films (but I suspect standard/regular 8 was included as they showed also the perforations and there were often two, instead of the one that should have appeared at the left side, in the middle).

It's a (2018) programme in three parts but sadly I missed the first part and the half of the second part.

I took anothe picture of the projector but the result is too dark due to the automatic settings of the phone, I guess.

This American couple shoot the train transporting the dead body of Robert Kennedy. The man showed were he shot it (with his super 8 camera, but again, due to my phone, the picture I took is not satisfaying enough). The man eventally bought the wagon and restored it.

**Mitchell Dvoskin** · August 16, 2021, 01:44 PM

The Columbo TV show in 1973, the projector above appears to be a Bell & Howell 1552, and he caught the criminal using the projectors freeze frame / frame advance feature to disprove the suspects alibi. The projector was a lot clearer on my 65" flat screen tv.

**Dominique De Bast** · August 30, 2021, 02:48 AM

From the Italian detective serie Il commissario Montalbano (brodcasted on French tv, following Wikipedia, on a shortened version than on Italian tv), episode 2 from the 14th season.

A man found in his attic super 8 films shot by his father in the '70s. They are all familly films, except six of them : it's always the same subject -a wall- shot each year until the year the father died. The man who found the films wants to know why his father shot that wall each year, it must have been important for him since he was is poor health the last year.

**Steve Klare** · September 10, 2021, 04:23 PM

In the Criminal Minds episode Legacy, the show opens with Jason Gideon watching Charlie Chaplin on 16mm:
(Someday, when I'm very, very close to retirement, I'm going to watch films in my office!)
.

Aaron Hotchner stops by, sees what he's doing and decides to join him.

Then comes one of the most personally irritating sequences of dialog I've ever encountered on television!

Derek Morgan dips his head in the office door and decides to kibitz:

Derek: What’s up with the rickety projector? Isn’t this stuff available on DVD?

Aaron: Some people like things run through a projector.

Derek: I think I’m gonna let you two old timers do your thing!

(-at least SOMEONE understands us!)

Of course, shortly someone discovers a dead body (or maybe a pile of them...) and the B.A.U. team spends the episode sorting out some twisted human mind and catching the bad guy.

-and the episode ends with EVERYONE sitting enjoying 16mm!
.

-after all: Don't you love a happy ending?

**Dominique De Bast** · September 12, 2021, 02:09 PM

From the Canadian serie The Murdoch Mysteries, season 14, episode 1 (Murdoch And The Tramp)

This camera/projector appears for a short moment but the interest of this episode is that you can see :

Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel

and...

Buster Keaton.
During the episode, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton make some observations that will inspire them for their future films