Super 8 film projector

[alan french]

Hi,

So did Perrys Movies.



Alan French.

[dvdman]

didnt perrys use to sell a lot of laurel and hardy films ??

[philip hindley]

yeah I used to buy the trailers £1 each, some you cant find now. Used to stick em all on one reel fantastic.

[dvdman]

philip

one of my best loved trailer is john and hayley mills promoting film Sky west and crooked whist selling film magazine Showtime

[Mr Pastry Time]

Mr Pastry also has projection tackle for the sub standard film gauges and still gives weekly film shows since about 1973. Bloody ell where have those years gone... We had a nine five sound film evening this weekend and watched a British Lion six reeler which was fun. Nothing quite like setting up a screen, speakers, projector stand and a 1938 Vox nine five sound projector.

Great fun all the above but it helps if you are slightly mad as well.

[dvdman]

i use to rent films from P M Films in Beaconfield Bucks

[Film Man]

There are still a lot of sub - standard 'nutters' around Mr Pastry Time. 8/9.5/17.5/28mm collectors who still keep the projectors turning. I had a Pathescope 9.5mm Vox but sadly the cheap gearing wore out and now use a converted 16mm Elf...see 9.5mm at it's best. Although I now take a Panasonic Digital Projector along to Village Hall lectures, I'm still often asked to take a real film projector, in order to bring back school day memories. Perry's movies still operate in a small way (Keith Perry now lives in majorca)...Derann and Clasic Home Cinema as well as Paul Foster films, continue to stay in business...selling 8 and 16mm films. A brilliant magazine issued bi monthly, to keep collectors in touch, called 'Projections' is obtainable, for a few pounds per year, from Pete travers...projections@hotmail.co.uk.
Although DVD has now taken over, giving incredible reproduction at a bargain price, 8mm and 9.5mm films are still giving pleasure to many...even if the only features came from E.J.Fancey productions and the short documentaries were made in the 30s...who cares!
Film Man.

[narabdela]

The quality of standard 8 was pretty awful and super 8 was not much better the picture area not being much larger.

I beg to differ. The exposed frame area of Super 8 is 23.22 sq.mm compared to Standard 8's 14.85 sq.mm. Over 50% larger!

The second YouTube clip in post #6 give a good illustration of the quality achievable.

[dvdman]

cheers for that info film man i myself still have a prinz editor