I still have all of my late grandparents' 8mm movies and all but one reel are still able to play on their old projector! Much of the footage is still crisp, clear, and colorful as originally filmed in the 1960s and 70s. They transferred all of the film on VHS in 1983. It ended up saving some of the footage that would end up ruining 2 rolls of film in the process of waiting for the rest of the transfers to be completed. While the film materials wasn't technically damaged or unable to play back on the projector (it still does perfectly fine), all of the shot footage faded away into shades of red, orange, yellow, and white. But because that footage was already transferred to VHS prior this, nothing was lost except in original quality. The tapes are still in good codition with no issues and I successfully transferred both 35-year-old, 2-hour tapes into a single freshly-printed, 4-hour DVD in 2018 using the Bi-directional dubbing feature on my 2015 Toshiba VHS-DVD recorder combo. The quality of the DVD recording preserved every little detail from the VHS signal, digitizing the footage for a whole new generation! But nothing will top quality footage like authentic film. Digital content is nice, but limited. Analog all the way.
This was back when "More Doctors Smoke Camels." I really like these old movies. I buy all I can find locally and on rare occasions I buy one off ebay. I have many hours of 8 & 16mm I've never even seen dated from 1947 to the 90's.
This was so cool! I just picked this camera up at a thrift store purely based on how awesome I thought it looked. Love this video. I would love to film something with it! :)
I’m “only” 35, (lol:) but I recall having candy cigarettes as a kid, around the late 90’s. They were fun! Didn’t make me want to smoke though. Also if you look closely at this footage you can tell those cigs aren’t even lit, so they’re likely candy! What a great video you’ve put together, thanks for sharing it
8mm Home Movie Film can be scanned to a mp4 file - filmphotographystore.com/collections/fpp-scanning-services/products/film-scanning-services-super-8-regular-8mm
I still have all of my late grandparents' 8mm movies and all but one reel are still able to play on their old projector! Much of the footage is still crisp, clear, and colorful as originally filmed in the 1960s and 70s. They transferred all of the film on VHS in 1983. It ended up saving some of the footage that would end up ruining 2 rolls of film in the process of waiting for the rest of the transfers to be completed. While the film materials wasn't technically damaged or unable to play back on the projector (it still does perfectly fine), all of the shot footage faded away into shades of red, orange, yellow, and white. But because that footage was already transferred to VHS prior this, nothing was lost except in original quality. The tapes are still in good codition with no issues and I successfully transferred both 35-year-old, 2-hour tapes into a single freshly-printed, 4-hour DVD in 2018 using the Bi-directional dubbing feature on my 2015 Toshiba VHS-DVD recorder combo. The quality of the DVD recording preserved every little detail from the VHS signal, digitizing the footage for a whole new generation! But nothing will top quality footage like authentic film. Digital content is nice, but limited. Analog all the way.
This was back when "More Doctors Smoke Camels." I really like these old movies. I buy all I can find locally and on rare occasions I buy one off ebay. I have many hours of 8 & 16mm I've never even seen dated from 1947 to the 90's.
Love the video! I have a lot of film that was left by my parents! One is of their wedding. I can't wait to send it off and be put on a cd!
I have so much respect for yall doing what you do, I can't wait to get ya to develop my film
With all the great things that you have on these videos, I think the old movies are the best, that is besides all the high jinks you guys do!!
Amazing piece of history. To think those kids are probably 80 years old now.
I’m 51 and I remember candy cigarettes very very well, Pell Mell. Lol
This was so cool! I just picked this camera up at a thrift store purely based on how awesome I thought it looked. Love this video. I would love to film something with it! :)
Wonderful! What model camera did you purchase? - Mike
Love this TH-cam Channel.
I’m “only” 35, (lol:) but I recall having candy cigarettes as a kid, around the late 90’s. They were fun! Didn’t make me want to smoke though. Also if you look closely at this footage you can tell those cigs aren’t even lit, so they’re likely candy! What a great video you’ve put together, thanks for sharing it
Ah, love it. Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be. :)
What frame rate are these old films most likely shot in?
They're all shot 16 frames per second.
Is there any solution went the film its "coped"?
8mm Home Movie Film can be scanned to a mp4 file - filmphotographystore.com/collections/fpp-scanning-services/products/film-scanning-services-super-8-regular-8mm
that just might be the most egg-shaped man i've ever seen.
I think a little convenience store in my town might still sell candy cigarettes.
You say this was a found movie- any idea who the people are? Any relatives of the Trackman?
Hi Nick, They're relatives of the neighbor of a Film Photography Podcast listener. Nope, no relation to The Trackman (Heyyyy!)