Who remembers...8mm movies?

[Archae]

Here are two I just made into Youtube videos.

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[Anon-C]

1. who can forget them?

[rickford66]

2. Yup. The old stag film format.

Cheap projectors burned a lot of film.

[Archae]

3. Friend of mine has some of the old 16mm stag films.

He is planning to convert them into video files.

[Hoyt]

4. Not bad back in the day. But today's phones do it much better. Like your utube.

[GP6971]

5. I still have my fathers

8mm projector and reels of film from the 50s.

[rsdsharp]

6. Anybody who ever saw the Zapruder Film?

[Hoyt]

7. +1.

[Sneederbunk]

8. I remember the blinding lights.

[Archae]

11. Oh yeah, movie lights.

Some of my parents' home movies had people look toward the camera then look away since they were half blinded.

[Hoyt]

9. Sorry. Double post.

[hunter]

10. That's very nice. Did you send them out or do it yourself?

My grandfather's 8mm movies were in rough shape by the time I got them. I still have a working projector and some of his editing tools.

Some of the conversion services can make these old movies look almost like videos using computers to remove the dust and jitter, restore the colors, and interpolate frames. I think that takes a lot of the charm out of it.

[Archae]

12. Just got a converter, converts 8mm and Super 8 into videos.

Saves 'em on an SD card.

[Hoyt]

13. Let us know how it works. I'm interested if I can find the old 8 mm from 50s.

[Archae]

14. Works great, as you can tell from the two videos I posted.

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Just send me your old films and I'll convert them for you, $1 per DVD, the blank discs and postage.

Correction: $1 per minute of the film, converted to DVD.

[Hoyt]

15. That's a deal. Thanks. I'll have to find them.

[Archae]

16. Ok, PM me when you do.

[Archae]

21. Minor correction...

[Hoyt]

22. Still a good deal. I figured $1 a DVD had to be a typo or someone.

[LeftInTX]

17. I was the oldest and there was an epic baby movie of me!

My dad spliced a bunch of film reels together. and he created an epic about the first year of my life!

My siblings hated watching it..LOL
They did not get the same "movie star" treatment...

[hunter]

23. Most baby photos of my youngest sibling were taken by me.

My parents were very tired and broke by then and had recently decided that birth control was probably a good idea whatever their religious leaders claimed.

[LeftInTX]

24. I'm was the oldest of four, but we were all very close in age...

I was only 4 years and 11 months old when the youngest was born...

I did not own a camera until I was 18.
My parents would not let me get one! It was so weird...

My dad owned the movie camera, but I never touched it.....

So, my dad and sometimes my mom took all the pictures....

[TlalocW]

18. We took a bunch of 8mm film

That my parents had stored forever and turned them into a VHS tape, ironically another deadish medium now. Mom hadn't seen them for years - black and white from the 50s and early 60s - even though there was a heavy clunky projector and screen in her closet. She really enjoyed them.

TlalocW

[Archae]

19. One of my family's movies has a funny memory.

In 1967, we took a trip driving west, and in Yellowstone, one of my parents drove alongside a big black bear, while the other filmed a close-up of the bear's face.

My 3 sisters and I were GLUED to the opposite side of the car from the bear.

[LeftInTX]

25. America's Funniest Home Videos 1967 Prequel

[Fla Dem]

20. I just sent 4 - 400 ft super 8 reels to Legacy Box to be digitized.

Not sure how they'll turn out, the film is at least 50 years old. But hoping for the best.

Not sure I could do what you did. I'm going to let the professionals do it.

Glad your film turned out so well.