Small Movies website

[CHAS]

Does anyone know what the story is with this website? I know a lot of people reference it, even revere it for its "aesthetic" charm and design but it is badly dated -- by at least ten years. They list sound striping as done by Paul Yost who sold the company several years ago to Konton, they have Yale Labs still in their Hollywood location (they've moved twice since then), etc.

Here is a link to this madness:

http://www.city-net.com/~fodder/s8mm/s8service.html

[aj]

It certainly looks nice with its simple use of HTML techniques of yesteryear/decennium
http://www.city-net.com/~fodder

The content is ancient. There is even the here-known-too Alan Doyle with the surveillance film. Then there wasn't even real Kodak negative in S8.

I suppose it is abandoned. Is this city-net still in operation?
Email and see what happens...

The mail address domain is a bit more modern politically that is
http://anomie.org/

[Will2]

What about this one?

http://www.super8aid.net/index.html

[etimh]

Does anyone know what the story is with this website?

Yeah, I used to loiter around that site all the time--always weird fun not knowing where you were going, or where you would end up, as you clicked around.

Indeed, apparently no updates since November 1998!:

http://www.city-net.com/~fodder/info/updates.html

Once upon a time, some crazy links to "other stuff" (so many dead now):

http://www.city-net.com/~fodder/info/links.html

But, a still decent and informative page on home processing (some outdated info):

http://www.city-net.com/~fodder/hand/index.html

Tim

[etimh]

What about this one?

http://www.super8aid.net/index.html

That place is pretty good--hadn't been there. Thanks for the link.

Tim

[super8man]

That website felt outdated back in 1997 when I used to surf it...that would make it like 15 years old at least...still, fun stuff all the same. I love the teaser of a camera summary. Sure glad the Movie Camera book came out.

[CHAS]

That website felt outdated back in 1997 when I used to surf it...that would make it like 15 years old at least...still, fun stuff all the same. I love the teaser of a camera summary. Sure glad the Movie Camera book came out.

I find it fascinating that a site can stay online like that. Like a beautiful, old abandoned building that people see from the road. You wonder who worked there last and what they were thinking when they left.

Don't people have to pay a monthly fee for the site? Doesn't the owner ever feel like updating it? Is he/she dead?

[super8man]

If it is anything like mine, until someone stops paying for "fodder's" web account, up it stays. One day I will dump my DSL with pacbell and when that time comes, down comes the website...at which point I would just list it on www.outriggercanoe.com and let the web figure out where it is...

[CHAS]

the mystery with this site's origins deepen!

On the lab processing page (also horribly out of date) there is an e-mail link to
something at anomie.org. So I decided to check out "anomie.org" and see if maybe the owner of that site was up to more current interests. Instead it links to a bunch of QT files with people saying "suicide" over and over and over!

http://anomie.org/wasser/und/brucke/

I just sent an e-mail to the guy in charge. I feel like I've done this before but we'll see...

[RichardB]

I'm thinking about making a sort of open 8mm site this summer where anyone can become an author and contribute articles. Would that interest anyone?

[Charlie Blackfield]

I'm thinking about making a sort of open 8mm site this summer where anyone can become an author and contribute articles. Would that interest anyone?

Please tell us more. In what sense would it differ from other 8mm resources on the web? What kind of articles are you after?

Charlie

[MIKI-814]

I'm thinking about making a sort of open 8mm site this summer where anyone can become an author and contribute articles. Would that interest anyone?

I think an open big website for the international community would be a very good idea.

[RichardB]

It'd differ by being a bit more like a wiki if anything than a top-down owners vs visitors site - I'd pay for the costs, and perform an admin function but ownership would effectively lie in the hands of enthusiasts. I wouldn't use wikipedia like software to do it though, it'd have more of a magazine feel to it. People would sign up to the site, email me or post on the forum and say "im john doe, id like to share this in an article with everyone", and then their login would be granted authorship permission on the main site.

Perhaps it might be better to make it 8-16mm focused, since there's so much crossover between the two formats, and a lot to be learnt from eachother.

I have a HUGE collection of old filmmaking magazines, so it would be quite easy for me to use old articles in there as inspiration, along with any new ones we create. I'm thinking it would be great to have articles that help people get started on the technical side of filmmaking, like other sites have, but with a good explanation of how people tend to do that in the context of small gauge film (as opposed to video). Because logistics often work out quite differently when you have film to deal with.

What would you like it to become Charlie, or anyone else for that matter?