How to Fake the Super 8 Film Look

[Osi Osgood]

That's another thing, yes, silent era films, perhaps up to about 1935, had that " glare" to them, (mostly seen in old black n white cartoons), bit you rarely see that light flutter in home movies, unless something is horribly wrong with the camera in the first place.

[Alan Myers]

Those were very early days, at the end of the day, properly projected home movies look excellent, as already said, a huge bulk of home movies were point and shoot, those who made movies as amateurfilm makers were usually the exception.
Personally, i have no interest in making home movies but those my family shot many decades ago are as good now and they were then, pin sharp for 90% of the reels, colours as good today as then and always great to view.
If I were to make a digital movie, I would never try to put real film down in any way by making it look s**t.

[Lee McCaffrey]

The scratched, grainy 'cine' effect is just lazy 'shorthand' that modern filmmaking uses and has used for a while. Same with the past being shown in sepia/black and white, or any movie taking place in Mexico having that yellow filter