8.75mm films with free projector on Ebay

[BK]

On Ebay China that is! Yes, there is actually a Ebay in China.

I was curious if they have any film gear for sale there and this guy has ten 8.75mm sound films of chinese war films with free projector thrown in. Didn't know such format existed, but hey when I did my maths 4X8.75 is exactly 35mm!?

Take a look and see what you think, the guy wants about US$200 for it.

http://cgi.ebay.com.cn/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... eName=WDVW

Bill

[chachi]

I'm not even gonna try to babble fish that one!

[jukkasil]

I'm not even gonna try to babble fish that one!

Why not?

Here it is:

"Had been through repeatedly two years network movie to sell, has known the national various provinces and cities movie fan and the movie amateur, in them had the enterprise successful public figure Has enterprise factory manager, company executive, has in the army is the projectionist, has the worker, has the management sauna leisure owner, has the coffee bar owner, has hotel boss and so on, only does not have the farmer

Middle exchanges with above public figure, derived very significant the precious suggestion, enabled my showing equipment from all walks of life and the family thunderclap displays it in the society to have a distinctive style the function superiority, thus also has filled the easy interest sale blank

Shenzhen some company purchases the film projector in our place, erects this equipment to the sauna leisure hall use Friday 6. The date carries on the evening performance old movie to review, the leisure welcome, was enhanced the leisure scale and the personal status, the economic efficiency is quite considerable

More interesting is because in service need some late reaches agreement the cafe with the service unit, only saw once the 8.75mm film projector which bought in my shop in this showing<<&#20912;&#23665;&#19978;&#30340;&#26469;&#23458;>> The old movie, actually this piece is an anti-espionage piece, the rhythm also slow, does not have the gun battle to fight the scene, however the auditorium audience actually can look, according to observes the attractively dressed boys and girls many, actually can look, this is the projection is unable to compare, again asks showing income each 100 Yuan, gather the human spirit, really was wants to result in too thoroughly, both demonstrated the old movie style and to obtain the small benefit reality is double is full ya, regarding this you had what idea?


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[Angus]

Why on earth wouldn't there be an eBay China? They have electricity, you know

I've bought from Chinese eBayers, no trouble whatsoever.

[timdrage]

Wow, ebay.ch looks interesting! Tho the altavista/worldlingo translations I'm getting are pretty surreal + patchy...

Here are some 16mm films, no idea what!:
http://cgi.ebay.com.cn/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... eName=WDVW
Babel enigmatically translates thus: "the standard 16mm opposition to Japan shade beats<< the land mine >> to add colored beats << the month in a hurry >>"
:?

[BK]

Here are some 16mm films, no idea what!:
"the standard 16mm opposition to Japan shade beats<< the land mine >> to add colored beats << the month in a hurry >>"

The film listed is a classic anti Japan 2nd world war drama, about a group of villagers planting mines all over the place for the Japanese invaders. 16mm black and white sound, made in the early 60's.

Why on earth wouldn't there be an eBay China? They have electricity, you know

Not only electricity but an astronaut as well.

I wonder if that projector is super 8 or is a funky gauge such as 8.75mm does exist in China???

Bill

[timdrage]

a funky gauge such as 8.75mm does exist in China???

Didn't someone mention just that in another thread recently? I distincly remember reading somehting about chinese propaganda films in an obscure format this week...

[Angus]

I suppose it is quite possible that the Chinese produced their own film format of 8.75mm to provide the Chinese with home movies but prevent them from viewing Western material.

Much like the old USSR choosing a modified SECAM as a TV standard so they couldn't receive signals from neighbouring PAL countries.

[mattias]

Why on earth wouldn't there be an eBay China? They have electricity, you know :)

i noticed the smiley, but have you followed any of the news when it comes to china and the internet development? in a country where you can get publically executed for posting to a newsgroup and where they once were planning to store every single bit that passed through the net on government servers it *is* a little strange that they have ebay.

/matt

[munnin]

the question of the chinese eBay is pretty obvious to me: there are several millions of potential customers (forget not that Hong Kong and Macau returned to chinese administration) and the truth is that China is implementing a sort of "sate controlled capitalism" that is actually working... so why not?

the questions concerning censorship are different and are related to "democratic" movements... but that is another story, and truly, is OT

[mattias]

fair enough. i never said i thought it was strange or wrong, just that i understand if people would think it was somewhat strange.

/matt

[David M. Leugers]

I have read about China and their 8.75mm film system, it was real and I imagine rather popular inside China. Never exported to my knowledge. I remember that they produced the features in 8.75 for showing in the backward and remote areas that did not and would not have 35mm theatres available. Kind of a home movie system without cameras, film or procesing available to the masses. Strictly a feature distribution format. Kinda interesting.


David M. Leugers

[jhoneycutt]

On Ebay China that is! Yes, there is actually a Ebay in China.
Bill

I think the real question is, do they take Pay Pal?

jack

[jhoneycutt]

http://cgi.ebay.com.cn/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... eName=WDVW
Bill

Well, Firefox can't read it- just a bunch of question marks.
Let's see, I have IE here someplace......

jack

[mattias]

works just fine in my firefox. do you have the chinese fonts installed?

/matt