On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:41:07PM +0000, John Gay wrote:
[...]
> We had several Super 8 home movies when I was a kid. Our local library also
> carried Super 8 movies before the advent of video tape.
For example I have the home version of "Star Wars" on Super8. It's
only one reel (16 or 17 minutes, I think), so it's actually just a
couple of climactic scenes. Mono sound, and it's cropped to fit the
4:3 aspect ratio.
Going back even further, there used to be a home market for 16mm. My
father has a silent projector from his childhood that uses an ordinary
light bulb. The belts are made from long metal springs and to change
the projector to rewind mode you actually re-thread them onto
different pulleys by hand. Films included cartoons, short Westerns,
etc. "Castle Films" was a major supplier of this stuff for decades.
-Dave Dodge
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