Hidden surprises with every processed K40

Patrick · Post by **Patrick** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 1:40 am

I am referring to those brief 3 to 4 frame snippets of someone else's footage that gets attatched to your K40 reel of film when it returns after processing. I have seen some interesting stuff from some of these snippets. Such images I have gotten myself include a yaught sailing through the ocean, high rise buildings, a close up of a bloke with a beard, a vintage car. With my last reel of K40 picked up a few days ago, the snippet that came attatched with it showed what looked like a scene from a more primitive society - a topless woman with a naked child by the edge of a lake or river - maybe they were part of a tribe being studied by an anthropologist or something.

As interesting as some of these snippets are, I wonder why Kodak does this?

What are some interesting or weird snippets that some of you other people have found attatched to your films?

Additionally, could anyboby have any suggestions of what to do with these snippets? I don't think splicing them together, like someone suggested, would work. Obviously, each image would be so briefly projected on the screen that the viewer would get a headache. There must be someway of using them both creatively and effectively.

tfunch24--lazy · Post by **tfunch24--lazy** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 1:49 am

Chris Cottrill wrote an article about doing what you're describing.

Read it here:

http://www.omniprints.com/super8/mysterious.html

Tom

Post by **Lucas Lightfeat** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 4:53 pm

I've always been so excited about my own footage, that I've chucked out dozens of these little gems, and never considered that they might be someone elses stuff, but from the few reels I haven't put on larger reels, I've found two - a statue in a stately garden (probably England) and a street scene (probably up North) I will collect these from now on.

I occasionally give friends a few frames of themselves on Super8, for them to look at hanging in a window - nice little present! Most people are fascinated by the series of almost identical images when you give them 1 second of film.

Lucas

Patrick · Post by **Patrick** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 11:19 pm

I have just thought of one possibilty...splicing all these snippets together onto a reel and transferring them to video. of course the only real way of viewing them without getting a headache is to pause each different frame on the VCR.

Post by **tod8** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 11:28 pm

lets see, i have a small box here that i was collecting my bits in, i was going to string them all together and call it "the lost film" or something, but i stopped shooting super 8 color a while ago. however i still have the bits, wow 9 of them! i didnt know i had so many.
1-looks like a wire fence and beyond it sea..
2-too dark
3-cant tell, too dark
4-dark interior
5-looks like a european street shot from above. nice buildings.
6-sploch of yellow
7-pitch black
8-very cloe up of a white sign with green letters. looks like an s.
9-c ant tell......
........oh well, not very interesting. but i do remember seeing one that was a title card that said "christmas 1999" or something. it was made using one of those old title card sets, of which i have one. its nice to know people are still using the old things like that and not just the cameras.

tod

Patrick · Post by **Patrick** » Sun Mar 09, 2003 11:29 pm

I must regret, I've thrown out / misplaced heaps of these 'gems' myself in the past. If I had kept every single one of them, I may have enogh to spool them around a reel a few times. Oh well...I'll have to shoot some more film and get some more snippets along the way.

tfunch24--lazy · Post by **tfunch24--lazy** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 12:37 am

You only have the opportunity to do this if you get your K40 processed by Kodak. Dwayne's does not leave the last few frames in the box.

I haven't used Dwayne's in months since I started buying K40 with the mailer. I've been saving up the spare frames that I get--and I haven't seen anything really special yet.

Tom

Post by **S8 Booster** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 5:08 am

Anybody recognize this? ftp://ftp.filmshooting.com/upload/pictures/MYSTF.jpg

To me it looks like a shot from the German Autobahn or some other motorway in Europe. I am not sure if it is inverted so it could be UK. My impression is: very Germanylike.

R

Post by **DriveIn** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:35 am

The clip of the highway looks very US. Wall along road for sound barrier is a common style in the US. Too bad you can't see the plates on the vehicles to be sure where it is taken.

Post by **Old Uncle Barry** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:18 pm

Yes they are interesting.Trouble is,they always look better than my stuff!!

Post by **Angus** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:55 pm

I do not think that frame is from the USA, the lane divider lines would be yellow in the US I think?

The feeder lane is coming in from the left, which means it could well be the UK but then I think the leftmost white line would be dotted.

The real question is, where is the other carriageway? On the left or on the right? If the other carriageway is on the right then this is probably in the UK. Given that the 'sound barrier' is on the left I'd guess the other carriageway is on the right....unless the scan has been made backwards!

Post by **S8 Booster** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 1:58 pm

It is a good chance that the frame is inverted.
The whole imagery look very central European to me but could be UK as well but more CE.

Cars definately look Western Europe Stock!

R

Post by **S8 Booster** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 2:10 pm

Just added another and posted them in a suitable format.

Central Europe?

Former East Germany?

R

Post by **jean** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 7:55 pm

folks, that's fun! I had some very cool looking, but they have disappeared.. but perhaps someone here recognizes this?

tfunch24--lazy · Post by **tfunch24--lazy** » Mon Mar 10, 2003 9:52 pm

Angus wrote:I do not think that frame is from the USA, the lane divider lines would be yellow in the US I think?

On most U.S. higways, the lane divider lines are white, too--better illumination in the dark? On most "regular" roads, the center double-lines are yellow.

Tom