Super 8 50th Birthday

[Davideo]

Got an idea for all of us at Filmshooting to help celebrate the 50th birthday of Super 8mm film which was introduced in April 1965.

Members of Filmshooting could prepare short clips of Super 8 films they've shot which will show the format is alive and well in 2015. To keep things uniform as a collaborative effort by this group, I created an end tag for each video that gets posted online at YouTube or Vimeo. Each member can use this, or create their own, to show our group's collective birthday greeting for all to see.

Of course, the use of the logo in this end tag would be subject to the approval of Filmshooting's owner.

Thoughts?

[Andreas Wideroe]

I think this is a great idea!

Andreas

[nikonr10]

Got an idea for all of us at Filmshooting to help celebrate the 50th birthday of Super 8mm film which was introduced in April 1965.

Members of Filmshooting could prepare short clips of Super 8 films they've shot which will show the format is alive and well in 2015. To keep things uniform as a collaborative effort by this group, I created an end tag for each video that gets posted online at YouTube or Vimeo. Each member can use this, or create their own, to show our group's collective birthday greeting for all to see.

Of course, the use of the logo in this end tag would be subject to the approval of Filmshooting's owner.

Thoughts?

Good idea , Only thing is the price of the telecine , That part is out of my price range , Anyway we can get cheap telecine or help on this part from the Forum ,

[Will2]

I wonder if Kodak will try to get some press and do some promos?

They are in a strange place with consumers because if they say go out and buy a Super 8 camera on eBay and it doesn't work or breaks which is highly likely they would foster significant ill will.

[Tscan]

That would be fun. I have a bunch of home movie family stuff i shot on Vision3, that might be a good modern portrayal of it's intended use. I'd be happy to help anyone in the USA with a scan for this if they needed it, for the cost of shipping, PM me. I use a Retro8 but it scans negative really well.

[nikonr10]

I wonder if Kodak will try to get some press and do some promos?

They are in a strange place with consumers because if they say go out and buy a Super 8 camera on eBay and it doesn't work or breaks which is highly likely they would foster significant ill will.

But then the other side is look how good the designs are or was for the camera's that do work ? Or maybe there will go with how good the format is , Or
all the great filmmaker's that have used super 8 film in it's history ? There are spoilt for chioce .

[Will2]

There are spoilt for chioce .

Maybe, but I know how those corporate marketing people think (I deal with them everyday) and they are in a strange position marketing film for a camera that hasn't been made in 25 years. We hate those cheap Super 8 cameras but they made them so average people could afford to make home movies. If the format has a chance they might have to make a new plastic cheap Super 8 camera to sell some of that film stock.

Just a hard product to market. One side are people like us that love film and will pay for it, but the big market would depend on cheap access and a "one-stop-shop" approach for processing and transfer like Pro8mm but for 10% of what they charge. That might spark wider interest but it will never happen.

The easy story is the history because so many people remember their parents and grandparents with these things but the trick is getting people to use it now.

[nikonr10]

There are spoilt for chioce .

Maybe, but I know how those corporate marketing people think (I deal with them everyday) and they are in a strange position marketing film for a camera that hasn't been made in 25 years. We hate those cheap Super 8 cameras but they made them so average people could afford to make home movies. If the format has a chance they might have to make a new plastic cheap Super 8 camera to sell some of that film stock.

Just a hard product to market. One side are people like us that love film and will pay for it, but the big market would depend on cheap access and a "one-stop-shop" approach for processing and transfer like Pro8mm but for 10% of what they charge. That might spark wider interest but it will never happen.

The easy story is the history because so many people remember their parents and grandparents with these things but the trick is getting people to use it now.

Will you are right there : If any marketing would be one of History ? but then it's our His story as well ?

[Mmechanic]

Double Eight is going to be 83 years old. About three quarter of the extant gears worldwide are for Double-Eight and Straight-Eight film. Double-Eight film goes with 16mm in perforating and processing. No cartridge is in play.

Kodak released a Double-Eight film loader at the end of 1962 when the plans for Super-8 were already made.

There’s only one advantage of Super-8 over Regular-8, namely the image set to the side of a perforation hole. By that arrangement full-length splices can be made. The rather small difference of image area surface is compensated by far more reliable film guidance elements of the camera with Double Eight.

50 years of throw-away plastic containers for 50 feet of film, why not celebrate it? Many will celebrate 50 years of a moon landing in 2019. The sixties were wonderful on one side and full of foul play on the other.

[Nicholas Kovats]

Can you provide details of this Kodak Double-Eight loader?

[inlieubeaulieu]

Hi all, just thought I'd post another Super8 50th birthday event.
the NW Film Center in Portland, Oregon, will be throwing a 50th b-day party for Super8 on June 12th.

The party will center around a 50ft challenge, with local film-makers, artists, writers, musicians (etc.), invited to shoot and present a single unedited cartridge of Super 8. Kodak provided raw film-stock (Tri-X and V3 200T) for the invitees.

We are also accepting submissions from the public for 50ft unedited super 8 films (digital, or physical copies accepted. NO unprocessed cartridges, please)
http://newsroom.nwfilm.org/2015/05/04/t ... r-8-films/

and here's the Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/479272368891874/

[Mmechanic]

Can you provide details of this Kodak Double-Eight loader?

Let’s see:

Kodak Electric 8 Duex Ad, Popular Science, 1962.jpg

Kodak Duex Cassette.jpg

It’s preloading, if you want to be “ready for action”.

[JeremyC]

t’s preloading, if you want to be “ready for action”

I have a similar Eumig camera amongst my collection.

Its funny that Standard 8 has lasted and lasted.

[Will2]

After starting on a 16mm K3, my favorite part of the ad is:

"BATTERY-DRIVEN! No winding--ever."