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I recently got 9 rolls of this stuff thats been unused and still in the box and wrappers. 3 expired in 1959 and the other 6 February of 1961. I shot one roll of the 1959 expired stuff on a kodak brownie hawkeye during a deep sea fishing trip. Gonna ask a local lab for help developing it.

Long live the memory of John Curtis Mellonball!

Discarded memories, I wonder why there are so many undeveloped films around? Do people just shoot films and not bother to have them processed? It couldn't be that expensive to process super 8mm back in those days. If I was to shoot a reel of super 8 film now days, I will bet ya bottom dollar I will get it developed and scanned.

This may not have turned out ideally, but it's still another cool piece of this puzzle.

Awesome footage, also great music this time! I remember my first time seeing a Hasselblad add in a magazine, when I was still in school in the 80s. I so wanted one of those... and I thought I would never have one. Luckily, now that I'm a grown up, I still can't afford one, so....

Beautiful.

Suggested name -- "The Pomona Pack"????

Happy 2025 Mike! Love these films! I have to wonder if any of the stills from the photo shoot are around or was never used. I can imagine how many rolls of film Darius went through. Be interesting to see what is around. Thanks for sharing and see you on the next fantastic live stream on Sunday!

Maybe it was mostly b-roll? I don't see any 'clapper' or sync marks and there are lots of short shots, and 'wild-sync' with Super 8 can be pretty tricky -- so maybe the plan was minimal original audio and mostly voice-over/narration.... But we'll probably never know. Yet it's still amazing to recover any images at all from undeveloped film that old! Excellent job!!!!

I snagged a Yashica Electro Super-600 in what seems to be mint condition *EXCEPT* I cannot get the battery cover off, so there must be corroded/expanded batteries in it. Lens looks pristine. I hope that the electronics are OK after I carefully get to the batteries and clean that up!!!

Thank you for all the great content & happy new year Mike !

Rely on ceiling fans and cold iced tea if it gets a little too warm!!! (I can see your ceiling fan running in reflection on a reflective plaque in the background)

Any idea what camera?

That’s Kodacrhome 40? Wow I’m impressed with the quality of the exposure. The sound is good too.

What causes the flicker in the footage? Is that a camera issue or telecine issue? Would love to see some experiments with deflicker and even see what can be done with upscaling these days Great video by the way.

The first thing that comes to mind is how UNBELIEVABLY GRAINY that film is these days. MUCH WORSE than Kodachrome. Glad that nowadays I film on HD or 4K with 3D VIDEO. Looks glorious on a 3D capable projector, filling the ENTIRE WALL, Blu-Ray Quality, floor to ceiling, wall to wall. Never going back to Super 8.

You know what really annoys me about eBay is the new prevalence of Ai item descriptions. “Captures your memories in vivid bullshit” is usually how they start. On a non-functional Canon L1 or something.

I love that your cute little daughter is wearing her bicycle helmet while coloring on the side walk. Safety first, safety always. Hahahahaha

I have the XL601 and those little cameras are packed with features.

I have 2 B&H T50XL and I like them.

I don’t have that Yashica model, but I do have the others. The Canon is the best but I am surprised at the quality of the B&H camera.

Filmboy24 makes this look easy but I’ve done one of these and it is not easy.

Those two “goons” have not been heard of since.

In the tree-cutting scene, you can hear they're taking photos of the whole thing. If those are color photos, now with 2025 just ahead of us, we're *THIS* close to use AI (including Gaussian splattering) on this film combined with the photos, and we can re-create the entire scene in motion and fresh, well-processed colors of our choice (E160T, Kodachrome, you name it) in 3D and have the film here 'drive' the motions in that 3D scene, putting the virtual camera in the same place as it is here, making it look entirely photorealistic and with glorious film colors, with much finer grain. We can then make it look like Super8 or 16mm, or we could even switch the aspect ratio from 4:3 to 16:9, by having the AI authentically guess the missing bits left and right, and we can make it 18fps, 24fps, or even 30p or 60p. Finally, if we have good portrait photos or face close-ups of Joey and his family from that time taken on 35mm still photography, we can then even make their moving faces absolutely authentic, with a resolution as high as that we could see every pore, if we wanted to.

good show very impressed by all your credits, sorry i kind of googled the film you mentioned 😀

Are theses Mark machines all silent? Do they have any super 8 sound? Thank you.

Are theses Mark machines all silent? Do they have any super 8 sound? Thank you.

Hello all from the movie capital of Barnet England….

Dawg... you make me watch the whole video and not reveal the difference?? Real annoying

Always love the content Mike, got two rolls of double X for christmas and a whole bunch of 35mm still film for christmas which im super excited to shoot. Got a Yashica Mat 124G. And I have 4 rolls of expired black and white 120 film which expired in 1981. Any idea what iso I should shoot it at? Its plus X pan film. Says in its plamphlet it is "125 iso" new.

I'm loving these found film videos

My BLC button seems a bit sticky, not sure if it’s stuck in. Any tips?

Merry Christmas Mike, Piper, family and Filmboy24 crew!!!

Daughter dating? I have four daughters -- stressful (about the dating) -- you'll need to quiz the boys on Super 8 topics -- if they fail, then no date!!!

Well, you rescued a bit of history there -- even undeveloped -- it would be great to track down someone who could put it all together as originally intended. Your footage definitely is about the photographer Darius, not about the subjects, not a music video. His camera (an expensive 120/220 medium format professional camera, not 100% sure the model), was wired to strobes in soft reflectors -- so the flash shots that you captured were probably when Darius was taking a shot.

A lot of the angles, shots, camera moves and quick zooms definitely have more of a 'pro' feel than an amateur Super 8 production -- but an interesting choice at the time to shoot it on Super 8 vs. 16 or all on video....

BetaCam (1/2") tapes may not playback properly on a consumer BetaMax (1/2") deck -- and BetaCam SP is 3/4" -- very different.

I sold a BX-720 on eBay two years ago for (wait for it) twenty eight dollars!

It is Super8 format which was the answer to Single-8 and not viceversa.

Hi Mike, missed this week (mum visiting for Christmas!), but now watching, but the live chat relay is not showing for some reason. Is that a setting at your end?? Will come back later and check if it changes...

Just watched on my Iphone and because I won't sign in to google no chance to comment, hence my other phone. Enjoyed and Merry Christmas.

I have an Elmo that can take the 200ft cartridges. It's a shame Kodak don't make it anymore. Sometimes two and a half minutes really isn't enough.