S8 on CSI NY

Post by **woods01** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:10 am

Just an FYI for the fanboys but S8 had a part in last nights CSI NY episode.
The killers-of-the-week used it to film their kinky sex game gone wrong,
of course they stupidly kept the film of their crime instead of burning it
like any intelligent person would have done the moment the police show
up at the begining of the episode :roll:

Post by **super8man** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:01 am

I saw that episode a while ago and it was rife with mistakes in how that camera would have rendered the image...meaning, the resulting footage was so awfully NOT super 8, it has less believability than the phasers used in Star Trek.

Cheers,
m

Post by **DriveIn** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:43 am

Did the evidence have sound as well? Just curious....

:?:

Post by **Taqi** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:57 am

super8man wrote:I saw that episode a while ago and it was rife with mistakes in how that camera would have rendered the image...meaning, the resulting footage was so awfully NOT super 8, it has less believability than the phasers used in Star Trek.

Cheers,
m

Apparently a Nizo S800 appeared in Star Trek....

Post by **T-Scan** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:48 pm

I wish I could remember the name of the movie (newer) 2 film makers were trying to shoot an art film (porn) on super 8. they never said the words super 8, but talked about "film".. the camera rig was a 70's fake wood panel box with a lense sticking off the front. and the view finder showed the time and date.

Post by **BolexPlusX** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:06 pm

I saw CSI NY myself the other night, and I was struck by the fact that the writers chose to portray Super-8 at all rather than have the characters use a camcorder. Viewers all over the place were probably saying "Can you still get film for that?"

Pretty sure the camera was a Zenit Quarz

http://www.kolumbus.fi/puistot/Col_pic/Quarz1.jpg

Wow!, they were filming in the darkness of night without additional lighting and it came out! It's a miracle, I tell ya!

Post by **MovieStuff** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:54 pm

The only proper use of Super 8 as a "home movie" (that I remember) was in Starman by John Carpenter. Karen Allen is watching super 8 sound home movies of her dead husband (Jeff Bridges) and she's watching them on an elmo. They looked just great and Carpenter did nothing to make the film look worse or better than it needed to. It was fun.

On the other hand, the movie "My Girl-2" has a scene where the little girl tracks down the ex-husband of her dead mother, as the little girl thinks he is her father. He isn't, but he explains how he met her mother in college or something when they were very young. Anyway, he goes on and one about how they got married outside on the sidewalk or something and just ate peanuts from a vendor for the reception because they were so incredibly poor. Then he proceeds to play home movies shot in 16mm color, complete with sound!!!!!!! And these weren't just any home movies. They had CD quality sound where her young mother sings an extended solo all in one, hand held take in the middle of the park! (pretty much leaves out the old Auricon, eh?). And, to top off this impossibility, they finally cut to the father standing behind an old 40's style SILENT 16mm projector with a reel of double perfed film that, aside from the lack of sound track, is too small to have been the source of the long scene he just projected!!!!

Man, no wonder all the pros prefer to shoot 16mm. All you need is a light weight silent 16mm camera and a 100 foot roll of double perf film and the lab will send you back 10 minutes of color footage complete with CD quality sound that can be played in full fidelity on any 16mm projector that you might have around, sound or silent. Why we even mess around with 16mm is a mystery to me, I swear! ;)

Roger

Post by **filmbuff** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 3:04 pm

Taqi wrote: Apparently a Nizo S800 appeared in Star Trek....

Its not a S800 (just look at the lens), probably a S80 or S480

Post by **ccortez** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:06 pm

My Nizo is larger and black. I could capture an entire team of cute German nazi women with mine. No more filmshooting for me, boys...

Post by **munnin** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:42 pm

8O it is the nazi nizo lolol

Post by **gianni1** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:44 pm

I've got that S80! To think it was actually used by the Capt. Kirk on Star Trek. Even though the viewfinder's rotten, think of it's cult status jacking up the bids...

However that Nazi logo would get me sent to prison in ebay Germany or anywhere in the Europe if the EU politicians get their way...

Gianni

Post by **reedsturtevant** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:33 pm

MovieStuff wrote:And these weren't just any home movies. They had CD quality sound where her young mother sings an extended solo all in one, hand held take in the middle of the park!

Funny! I just saw some sweet Super 8 sound scenes in a documentary, "Nomi Song", in a theater in NYC last week. Klaus Nomi was a musician and performance artist in the early 1980's. A couple scenes show Nomi hanging around an apartment making himself up and singing a capella. Soft available light and slight camera noise - looked like my old single-system sound Ektachrome home movies. Beautiful on a big screen.

P.S. I have to say the movie also has a lot of awful grainy pan-scanned archival footage mixed in as well

Post by **saltyninja** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:54 pm

Ah cool! I just read about the Klaus Nomi film in the paper the other day. No idea S8 was involved...

The film 'Paris, Texas' by Wim Wenders has a sequence in which the characters watch silent super 8 footage from a day at the beach. The quality looks gorgeous in the late afternoon sunlight and of course Natasha Kinsky looks gorgeous in any medium