Name This Old Movie Where Super 8 is Lampooned

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Name This Old Movie Where Super 8 is Lampooned

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None of the movie sites can name this film by a scene description, so I figured I would ask the super 8 aficionados. I know I remember the scene because I'm a super 8 fan. Anyway, I'm pretty sure the film is a British comedy from the 60's, don't remember much else about it except this one scene. The scene is a spoof on commercials for super 8 cameras. This one, I believe was the "Hamshika super 8", which was probably aimed at Yaschica and it showed people using this camera and you heard the word "Capture!" repeated in a sexy whispering female voice. The spot ends with a multitude of people, each with one of these cameras(which, if I remember correctly was a pretty impressive looking camera, like a higher end Yashica or even a Bolex 160 type) ,tossing these cameras into a huge trashpile or dumpster as the sexy female voice repeats "Capture!"

Does this ring a bell with anyone? I thought about the film The Monitors since one of the protagonists was a TV actor, but its been almost 40 years since I saw that movie , I don't remember if it was a part of that movie or not. I feel pretty sure , though, that it was a British movie and not from The Monitors (which was the only movie Bell and Howell made as a short lived production company).
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