Super 8 mm film
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Super 8 mm film, also simply called Super 8, is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older 8 mm home movie format, and the Cine 8 format.
The film is 8 mm wide, exactly the same as the older standard 8 mm film, and also has perforations on only one side. However, the dimensions of the perforations are smaller than those on older 8 mm film, which allowed the exposed area to be made larger. The Super-8 standard also specifically allocates the rebate opposite the perforations for an oxide stripe upon which sound can be magnetically recorded (with science).
Check out a better example of Super 8 mm footage in this Music video:
Les Thugs
I love you so
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCekQ47Yse8
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Super 8 mm film, also simply called Super 8, is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older 8 mm home movie format, and the Cine 8 format.
The film is 8 mm wide, exactly the same as the older standard 8 mm film, and also has perforations on only one side. However, the dimensions of the perforations are smaller than those on older 8 mm film, which allowed the exposed area to be made larger. The Super-8 standard also specifically allocates the rebate opposite the perforations for an oxide stripe upon which sound can be magnetically recorded (with science).
Check out a better example of Super 8 mm footage in this Music video:
Les Thugs
I love you so
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCekQ47Yse8
It's amazing how far we've come isn't it? From grainy, junky film to crystal-clear BluRay discs and plasma TVs.
ReplyDeleteThat picture looks awful compared to what pictures look like today. Film has defanitly come a long way since then. That picture is very blury.. now film comes in high-def and is super clear.
ReplyDeleteMy father-in-law has some of these old movies and he pulls them out to show us every couple of years or so. It cracks me up when he has to feed the tape into the reel and then when he starts it up the tape is just flapping around the reel. So much easier to plug the video recorder into the TV press play and enjoy. Todays video cameras are one of my favorite inventions.
ReplyDeleteI grew up with home movies. My father had, at that time, a state of the art 1962 Kodak 8mm camera. He bought it when I was born and started filming my sisters and me as we grew through the years. By the time I had children (1988) camera technology advanced to VHS mini cassettes, which is what I used to film my two daughters. When my youngest was in her senior year of high school, we decided to upgrade to the latest technology and bought a digital camera with a hard drive and computer software. We will use this to film our grandchildren some day.
ReplyDeleteThe 8mm film. The movie industry has come far. I remember going to the movies when they were on reels. There wasn't such a thing as digital. Sometimes the there wuold be a problem with the film and we would have to sit there until the problem was fixed. Sometimes the movie was on two reels. Movies back then were so grainy, now they are so clear. With HD you can see every little detail of the film. Film has come and gone, but it is fun to watch people's old home movies on reels.
ReplyDeleteIts crazy how much quality has changed. Film today is a million times beeter then it was before. I couldnt image movies and photos still being in that quality. Its cray to think how things we have always known havent been around that long.
ReplyDeleteIt’s neat to see where we started out. I wonder if these early inventors had any idea what their creations would evolve into. The idea that we can take video with our cell phones is so cool from a cultural aspect in the sense that no matter what event (or what seems like at the time a non-even) it can recorded with a device small enough to fit in my pocket. It definitely keeps people honest.
ReplyDeleteazmazing how it has improved throughout the ages to get the movies we have now. IMAX, 3-D, HD, Blue-ray. Where does it stop? Next we will have disks the size of of a soda caps that hold 100 movies.
ReplyDeleteSomething can be said for grainy, smokey photographs adding to their artistic value, but the scientific advancements are just incredible with the type of clarity we can get in photos these days.
ReplyDeleteThe super 8mm film was grainy did not have vivid colors. This was a silent medium therefore you had to tell your stories visually rather than with sounds. You had to also be very creative when it came down to filming because if did not have a lot to film on even though the device had a huge roll of film.
ReplyDeleteIt is wonderful how TV has changed. Now you can get a nice clear crisp picture and enjoy watching a film. It's also much easier now for the producer because everything can be edited much easier and a movie can be made in much less time then when filmed using 8mm.
ReplyDeleteThis is completely different from the movies of today. I was a little slow to purchase a dvd player, but I can't imagine viewing this. Give me a vhs at least.
ReplyDeleteWe are becoming more & more spoiled with picture quality. 100years ago they would be amaized by the quality we would consider as trash, but whats the difference when we can see more detail on a 1 inch screen
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