1950's regular-8 filmstock questions.

[VideoFred]

Hello everybody,

I got this mail from John A.Mozzer (California)

I need to find an old book on these filmstocks. I think a lot of my dad's
films are Kodachrome, but not all of them. Per notes that I wrote when I
was a kid, I used the following filmstocks in my own movies: Kodak, Sears,
Colorcade, GAF Anscochrome, ESO-S Miracle High Speed. I assume the "Kodak" film is Kodachrome. (Those films look like it.) I'd like to find out what kind of filmstock Sears was re-packaging under its name. I'd like to study up on all these filmstocks that were made specifically for regular 8mm. Can you recommend a book that I could try to find?

John has about 8 hours of family history on regular-8. As you see he wants to know everything about the used filmstocks, and perhaps there are some books about the subject?

Thank you all in advance,
Fred.

[VideoFred]

No one?

Perhaps I was not clear enough? I'm looking for background information about the following regular-8 filmstocks:

Sears, Colorcade, GAF Anscochrome, ESO-S Miracle High Speed.

Thank you all in advance,

Fred.

[Charlie Blackfield]

Hi Fred,

Not sure if this will be of any help, but earlier this year, I went to part of a conference about early colour films - see http://www.bris.ac.uk/drama/colour_conference/

where I attended a session on Saturday afternoon about 1930s home movies (16mm that is). The conference didn't cater for any 8mm, but the chaps who did the home movie presentation may be able to point you in the right direction. Go to the page linked to above and then to the PDF schedule and look for Session 16 which you will find on page 3. They're all academics, so you should be able to track them down over the internet. The session chair Simon Brown is from Kingston University and one of the main researchers on the project, along with Liz Watkins at University of Bristol. They may not know the answer to your questions, but are likely to know someone else who does - or some appropriate literature.

Good luck,
Charlie

PS. Please let us know what you find out.

[Charlie Blackfield]

Just another thought: The Filmmuseum in the Netherlands does sometimes home movie screenings and seems generally keen to archive old home movies. So maybe you could ask them, I'm sure they would know a lot about old film stocks such as these.

[jpolzfuss]

Hi,

did you already know these links?
http://www.super8data.com/database/film ... m_list.htm
http://www.super8.nl/english/e_frame_research_film.htm

This company can also process several older films, so they might know some details?
http://processc22.webs.com/

Jörg

[VideoFred]

Good information!

Thank you both Charlie and Jörg

Fred.

[jamworks]

I am the person quoted in VideoFred's original post at the top of this thread.

I found a bunch of little instruction pamphlets with the regular 8mm film camera that I used when I was a kid. Here's both sides of instructions for the aforementioned Sears film.

I take it the Sears film is 3M's Dynachrome, judging from the database provided via a link in the above post by jpolzfuss.

The film packaged as Colorcade is still a mystery.