Super 8 film projector

[dvdman]

Did anybody on here ever have one i had a Chinon for many years and i use to rent the films from p m films in beaconfield

[will.15]

I still have my father's regular 8.

[dvdman]

i still have a editor

[johng]

I was using one the other day a Eumig P8 for someone who had acquired a 200 foot reel of Walton (remember them) and wondered if it was worth transferring to DVD.



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



If 9.5 had been allowed to develop it had a picture area nearly as big as 16mm since the sprocket holes were between the frames which kept down the size of the film stock without sacrifising picture area.

[dvdman]

i remember walton films yes the colours was well done on them and sound was pretty bad at times esp on those walton films i remember buying film Curse of the crimson altar horror film and it was only 8-9 mins of footage

[Arfur Teacake]

see what they can do with super 8 today- film from 1974



[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xAlzArG3bA"]YouTube- Super 8 mm Wedding Film 1974 - Raw Telecine processed with Avisynth[/ame]





and recent film in widescreen



[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJZG2Bc162E&feature=related"]YouTube- Super 8 Film by Pro8mm NEW Pro8-22[/ame]

[orpheum]

I have my Eumig dual standard 8 and Super 8 projector.They were all we had in the pre video age.I graduated onto 16mmin the late 60s to Bell & Howell Filmosound projectors because there was so much available on that gauge and of course picture and sound were cinema quality.Once video established itself in the early 80s i more or less stopped using them,though i still have the films and projectors.Now even the 35mm projectors in cinemas will become obsolete in a few years time when the industry goes over virtually completely to digital,and many operators will become redundant.A very sad day.

[Arfur Teacake]

Not quite the end for film as all digital films are being archived on 35mm because they dont trust hard drives or discs to last.

[dvdman]

hard drives are brilliant

[Santonix]

I still have my Father's Eumig P8 projector and a large collection of family films from the late 1950's through to the advent of video. His enthusiasm for home movies rubbed off on me. I got one of the first domestic video cameras to come onto the market and have kept up to date with the evolving technology ever since. I look back at film and video footage of friends and family some of whom have now passed away. Great memories.

[Tony Pendrey]

name='dvdman']hard drives are brilliant

Yes, they are brilliant. Then one day it just stops working but luckily you have backed up all the important stuff to CD-R/DVD-R.



Then you find that lots of these disks have self-corrupted so that is that.



It happens more often than you might imagine.



My neighbour recently bought an external 1Tb drive - Backed up 250mb from his laptop. Re-formatted the laptop and installed Windows 7 - And then discovered that the external drive had failed.



Bah Humbug.



The same guy had lost a vast collection of digital holiday snaps when the CD-R he had stored them on had self-destructed. The disk had become "see-through".



The poor bloke has got white hair and a walking stick and he's only 32.

[alan french]

Hi.

My film projectors:- Still film strip: A toy called a Cineflash.

Movie. Silent . Brownie Eight 58 standard eight.

Eumig dual guage.

Sound. Norris super 8.

Elmo super 8



Movie cameras. Kodak Brownie standard 8.

Canon standard 8.

Nikon R8 super 8.

Panasonic . supervhs camcorder/palmcorder.



Started on home movie scene in 1961. Joined Hemel Hempstead Movie Makers (formerly Hemel Hempstead Cine Society) in 1968. Still a member and have a blog spot on their website.



Packed up making my own home movies when my video camera contracted condensation.



Hemel Hempstead Movie Makers have currently some of their productions available for the public to see at the Paper Trail, a local working/living museum in Hemel Hempstead, the local history archive, by appointment at the local history archive in nearby Berkhamsted. And there are a tiny fraction on our website.



Hemel Hempstead had the Kodak processing laboratory on its industrial estate.



Hemel Hempstead's Fuji's premises was caught severely in the blast during the Buncefield oil depot explosion of 2005. Kodak's laboratory had fortunately been demolished for some time before then.



I am now digressifying and so shall now submit.



Alan French.

[dvdman]

alan i use to work for super 8 film company iver film services in the early 80s sadly i was sacked after 2 weeks what a awfull company to work for

[Arfur Teacake]

name='dvdman']alan i use to work for super 8 film company iver film services in the early 80s sadly i was sacked after 2 weeks what a awfull company to work for

DVDman

Iver films did a lovely super 8 version of 'Tommy' and others, but I would suspect that by the early 1980s the super 8 print was on the way out in favour of VHS so maybe that is why you did not last?

but do tell more scandal about Iver films if you have some I alway wondered who ran it and how it came about?

[dvdman]

it was run by george and wendy davis i worked there 1981 where then it was mostly videos the company itself was based in pinewood film studios

[dvdman]

arfur when iver film servies went into selling videos they were awfull did you know they were the first in england to get the right to sell film the Texas chainsaw massacre and that was a disaster as the film was awfull

[bayards]

I have one in the loft and keep meaning to burn my super 8's to DVD - also have a few prerecorded titles like "Creature from the Black Lagoon" - must dig them out. I bought a Fresnel lens thing in a 2nd hand shop in Stony Stratford last year just for this purpose.

[cinemal]

I have a number of S8mm and 16mm projectors,the one that gets the most use is an Elmo GS1200. This is used mostly for shows to pensioner groups and railway enthusiasts. still have dozens of reels of commercial 8mm releases, sadly colour fade has affected a large number of them.

[philip hindley]

I used to rent and buy films from DERANN in Dudley, they are still there, good days.Switch the light off run the projector...clatter...clatter..cockadoodle doo...Pathe News you see.....

[dvdman]

derann use to sell good film trailers my friend got some rare stuff off them