MovieStuff unit on network TV!

[MovieStuff]

Watching an episode of the television show "Alcatraz" and, low and behold, one of our WorkPrinter-HD telecine units makes a guest appearance on the cart in the left foreground. It's a small world.

[super8man]

That's awesome!!

[granfer]

Isn't that called "Product Placement"?

[Scotness]

Very cool - I hope you're advertising them now as "As Seen on Alcatraz"

!

Scot

[Andersens Tears]

My wife has been watching this, and I have been completely uninterested until now.

[Will2]

Hope that wasn't why it was cancelled. At least you know they are spending their money wisely on telecine machines. Now, if they would only shoot on Super 8!

[Scotness]

I would love to see a major network show shot on Super 8!

[Will2]

I would love to see a major network show shot on Super 8!

For just one episode maybe. It would be hard to watch every week.

[MovieStuff]

I would love to see a major network show shot on Super 8!

For just one episode maybe. It would be hard to watch every week.

Actually, truth be told, I pitched an idea to ABC some years ago about a show tentatively called "1958" that was to be shot entirely on Kodachrome. The idea was to, each week, present the record of an event by way of one family's home movies. The set up for the show starts 13 years earlier where a 10 year old boy is shown by his grandfather how to use his 8mm home movie camera and a small reel to reel recorder. Grampa dies early on but his grandson carries on the tradition of documenting family happenings after finding a box of films and recordings from his grandfather, including some shot in Korea. So the show takes place in 1958 but also in Koda-flashback via grampa's home movies. The series would wind its way towards the year 1958 where the boy, now grown, is married and starts documenting his own family.

Now, my idea was to actually shoot the entire thing in Parsons where Dewayne's is located. It's a small town and would work well for middle America in the 50's. And, of course, production would take advantage of dailies via Dewayne's lab.

Anyway, they said no and that was that. Still think it would have been a very cool show.

Roger

[Will2]

Anyway, they said no and that was that. Still think it would have been a very cool show.

Freaking brilliant. Certainly plenty of opportunity for nostalgia and product placement for any brands that are still around from those times, much like Mad Men.

I bet the son would have a Sniper for transferring his home movies, and Uncle Roger would be the wise, gruff recluse artist that provides insight into the times that he's watching on the home movie.

Wish you could do a Kickstarter project for raising funds for a pilot.