Could that have been Super 8 on TV last night?????????

[studiocarter]

Last night on UK TV there was some sit com where some lady was talking on and on. The image had some black on the right and on the top, and it moved! The corner was rounded!! It was a framing thing, I couldn't believe it as it looked just like when I start to line up a film to transfer on my WorkPrinter. Then, it moved around and I actually saw the tab that holds the lens on. IT WAS A WORKPRINTER :!: On television!
It looked like someone was doing a reality TV kind of thing, like hand holding the camera only hand holding the telecine.
The image was just super great TV totally clear bright no grain and looking just like the best ever seen.
Could that have been Super 8 crystal synced and transferred with a professional tv camera??
Is the best TV image as good as S8 can look?
I mean it looked GOOD!
Are we, am I, playing with stuff that is that great??????

Don't ask what program, it was just after 9 or 930pm and Stella was teaching me how to go to sleep.

Maybe it was all just a dream.

[MusicAlly]

There has been a few instances of Super 8mm popping up on TV recently. It would seem that Laurence-Lewellyn Bowen, the infamous for his fantastic and outrageous dress style [my opinion ;-) ] is a bit of a fan. When he was in Venice he shot some super 8mm - we saw him using the camera and we saw the results as well and the same thing happened a few weeks ago, although I don't remember the details.

When people in the BBC use Super 8mm, you know they must love it, considering the equipment they have available.

My 2 cents.

[MovieMaker]

Not on TV, but:

I recently went to the movies and watched "The 25th Hour" with Edward Norton. It´s a movie by Spike Lee and damn myself: Inbetween the movie were some shots (for quite some length) that looked soooo much like Super-8! Though I didn´t find anything about it or the cinematographer on the net I know that Spike used to start making movies with Super-8. Maybe he fell in love with it again and remembered his old days?

Anyone else noticed this awesome looking footage - or am I already daydreaming about Super-8?

MovieMaker

[Alex]

Not on TV, but:

In between the movie were some shots (for quite some length) that looked soooo much like Super-8!

MovieMaker

What do you mean by that?

[MovieMaker]

I meant that there were a few scenes that looked exactly like blow-ups of Super-8 we´ve all have seen several times.

Or did they some sort of 35mm special developing to increase grain structure and uplift those strong colors?

MovieMaker

[Sonic Truth]

Ive noticed that the programme with laurence lewllyn bowen often has super 8 footage included, especially if they go away to a foreign country. I guess they like to give the cameras to the presenters.

The trouble is, they never show the true quality of super 8 on TV because they always want that 70s home movie look, all grainy and wobbly hand held shots.

[tod8]

anyone watch the show "Globetrekker"? it's usually on PBS here in the states. they always use a lot of S-8 footage interspersed with the regular footage. it's nice.

tod

[calgodot]

Spike Lee used reversal film to great effect in CLOCKERS. He became enamored of the stuff. So it may be reversal film - probably S16 for the ratio but he's gutsy enough to use S8 that's for sure.

I've corresponded with some people from Globetrekker. They do indeed use Super8 for cutaways. They've also stuck some 16mm in at least one episode. Most of their crews come from the UK, by the way - if I were living in London I think I'd camp out in their lobby until they hired me. That Ian chap is a right out blast. I'd love to travel with guy.

Super8 is showing up everywhere. I've actually been meeting with some DV people who want to utilize S8 and 16 in primarily DV productions. One guy needs film for action and slo-mo - he's making a Tarantino-esque kung fu flick and needs good slow motion for fight scenes. Another wants to use S8 for a flashback/trip sequence.

Now if they only had money....

[tod8]

I've corresponded with some people from Globetrekker. They do indeed use Super8 for cutaways. They've also stuck some 16mm in at least one episode. Most of their crews come from the UK, by the way - if I were living in London I think I'd camp out in their lobby until they hired me.

i know what you mean........every time i watch that show i wish I was the one shooting the super-8.....!.....traveling and shooting 8mm would be the greatest dream come true............

tod

[alan doyle]

if you look close,you will find bad super 8 on bbc 2 and channel 4 in the uk,nearly every night. most of the time in docos it is shot by runners,directors and cameramen.they do not really want the crappy 70s look but
if you use a camera like a water pistol,thats what you will get.

[Lucas Lightfeat]

I shoot and I sometimes score

Oh aye! Anyone nice?

Yeah, I see Super8 all the time on TV.

What I haven't yet seen, EVER, is a well made, well produced film on Super8. I mean, I haven't ever seen a Super8 film with great sound, tracking shots, good acting, directing etc.

You may well ask why anyone would shoot on Super8 if they had that kind of budget, but that's what I really long to do one day soon - to really show the power of the format. Imagine: a Super8 film with pro sound, multiple takes, pro actors, a good dolly and a really good script for a whole 10 minutes. If more of us did this, the format would be taken more seriously, for sure.

Can anybody recommend a really good (pro) piece of drama made on Super8?

Lucas

[Guest-]

In the movie rounders I saw some footage that looked like it might be super 8 neg. Probably from pro 8mm because it was so unsteady. Also the resolution was poor compared to the other footage in the movie. It was in the scene where Matt Damon's friend was hiding out in the Gym because some loan sharks were after him. In this scene he and Matt Damon were playing around on the basketball court. It did not seem to be for any particular reason like a flachback or anything because it was just apart of the regular story. It is as if they decided to sneek some super 8 neg footage in there just to see what it looked like or to see if people would notice the difference. strange hoe it sometimes pops up in movies just out of the blue. There was another movie that I saw on Cable where it just poped up like that in the middle o the same scene with other footage that was the regular 35 mm stuff. It was a movie that had that guy that was in the movie Edie and the Cruisers ( I cannot remember his name) but it definitely had to be negative also because of the particular scene and the way the lighting was and I noticed that the image was breathing heavily( must have been from pro 8mm-also the big boys who step down to super 8 seem to support Pro 8 because it is all out there in the Los Angelos area and they have the budget for those outrages prices on that poor quality stuff) with a very noticable jitter and poor resolution with respet to a 35mm film

[Sonic Truth]

there is lots of super 8 footage in those "I love the 1990s" type shows.
I think alan doyle, who posts on this forum.

[Lucas Lightfeat]

there is lots of super 8 footage in those "I love the 1990s" type shows.
I think alan doyle, who posts on this forum.

Yes, I've seen lots in every show, all taken recently, faking old events.

Does Alan do this? Sorry, do you do this Alan? If so - cool! It looks good, well taken.

Lucas

[Sonic Truth]

well.."i love 1999" was on last night, and in the credits it says Film cameraman: Alan Doyle, so its gotta be him!

the show was presented by the girl from the blair witch project, and this reminded me..what 16mm camera was in the film? is it an old Arri, or a cinema products, anybody know?