Family favourites?

Lion Television are looking for a family with video or film footage of them on their happiest holiday of the past for a new UK family/holiday nostalgia programme.

Specifically, they are looking for families who have footage of holidays taken in the UK in the 60s, 70s, 80s or early 90s, where members of the family who appear are all still around, but will have since grown up and moved on.

The show will re-unite the family seen in the footage, and take them back to re-live their happiest holiday of the past. The programme will show how the area has changed through the eyes of the family and how the family has changed.

So, if your family have film/video footage of a memorable past holiday in the UK, Lion would love to speak to you!

Contact Lion TV by email: holidays@liontv.co.uk or by telephone on 0208 846 2132

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Flickering Spokane

More on the Flicker front...

Flicker Spokane is inviting submissions until 15th September, free entry, for their 4th Annual event which is slated for Sunday October 15th at Center Stage in downtown Spokane (WA).

The usual Flicker rules of originating film and a duration of less than 15 minutes apply...

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European Pro8mm stock

Looks like good news for us Europeans, according to the Wittner Kinotechnik site, it seems they will soon be stocking a range of Pro8mm stocks in both negative and reversal flavours.

Films include Kodak's Ektachrome 100D (€31 including E6 processing) and Kodak's Vision 2 50D negative (ECN-2 processing) stock (€19.90 excluding processing) plus other Kodak Vision 2 stocks and 4 additional Fuji stocks.

The Ektachrome 100D and Vision 2 50D are shown as being in stock, others are awaited. For more details see the Wittner Catalogue page.

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onsuper8 on pdf

We've decided to make some of onsuper8.org's key resources available in the handy download, print and keep .pdf format.

So, when you're far away from civilisation you'll still know what film stocks are currently available and where the nearest Super 8 lab is!

See the ".pdf info" tab of onsuper8.org for more details.

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Quick! Flicker Attack LA!

You'll have to be quick - the 6th Annual Flicker Attack has been announced in Los Angeles.

The first 25 filmmakers to sign up (priority is being given to newcomers) get to choose a cartridge of Kodak Super 8 stock, make an in camera edited film and Flicker will do the rest.

Telecine will be done at Yale to digi-beta for screening on the big screen at the Egyptian Theatre on November 6th at 7:30pm.

For more information and entry detils (just $30) see the Flicker LA site.

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One millllliiion hits

In typically modest fashion, retro style gurus and perveyors of just what was, Retro thing announced yesterday their (adopts Dr Evil accent) one millionth visitor. Numbers are becoming more and more meaningless in this day and age, but a million anythings certainly does have a nice ring.

If you not visited Retro thing, do it now, it's jam packed full of retro everything from robots to racecars, microlights to marmite and it regularly features the best in small film gadgets and gizmos.

Here's to a million more, cheers!

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Mexican Super 8 Fiesta

It's all happening with Super 8 down in Mexico. The Retro Kornea festival has just been announced at their shiny new website (an English version will be up by the weekend). Super 8 fanatics and organisers have joined forces with a number of festivals across Mexico to stage a Super 8 single cartridge event with bags of enthusiasm, wide exposure and some cracking prizes.

Entries are now open with a deadline of 30th November and a fee of $99 dollars, which includes the shipping and cost of one cartridge of Super 8 VISION 2 200T stock, lab processing processing, transfer and a mini DV copy of the film. All films will be entered into the Retro Kornea event which has the following fab prizes;

• 1st - 200 euro cash & 200 euro worth of Kodak film stock plus processing and telecine
• 2nd - 100 euro cash & 100 euro worth of Lodak film stock
• 3rd - 50 euro cash & 100 euro worth of film stock

Films will be screened at various venues across Mexico from January to July 2007, plus, for the main event next year they've joined forces with an international film festival, Expresion En Corto, in the beautiful city of Guanajuato where the best five entries from Retro Kornea will be shown. Travel from within Mexico, the hotel, daily breakfast for 3 days, and all accreditations to all events and parties will be free for the lucky five!

Full details can be found on Retro Kornea where both registrataion and payment can be made (via PayPal). I can feel a small film fiesta coming on!!

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Flicker Austin 2nite!

The HBMG Foundation is proud to bring you Flicker 27, Austin’s foremost film festival for the celluloid cineaste. Their latest screening comes straight to you this Thursday, August 24th at the Alamo Drafthouse in downtown Austin. The films start rolling at 7p.m. when hosts, the film critic improv troupe “D.R.A.G.O.N. Squad,” Austin’s most feared and reviled rogue cinema scholars, will offer their zen-like aesthetic insights alongside all of the tremendous short films that Flicker 27 showcases.

Besides wowing the audience with their incredible intellect, the “Squad” will host a rad raffle for the Flicker faithful to win prizes from Flipnotics, Birds Barbershop, Cap City Comedy Club, and many others. Local shorts from some of Austin’s favorite directors and new voices from around the globe will highlight this hotly anticipated evening.

Tickets are only $5, so bring your superior cinematic knowledge and prepare yourself to “Enter the D.R.A.G.O.N.…Squad!”

For more information, please go to www.flickeraustin.com or check them out on Myspace at www.myspace.com/flickeraustin

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Toma Unica Festival

The second edition of Toma Unica, the Spanish Super 8 single cartridge festival, will be taking place on the 2nd and 3rd December in Madrid.

Any type of Super 8 cartridge can be used and films made on on any subject matter. Once completed, cartridges can be sent to any lab for processing but must be mailed directly to the festival organisers. Films will then be screened with or without any accompanying soundtrack. Submissions must be made by 1st October 2006, with notification made by e-mail of basic film information to tie up with the film coming back from the lab.

More details can be found on the official website, or a translated version here.

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The Preservation Project

The Preservation Project, the brainchild of Ashley Maynor a University Fellow at Temple University Philadelphia, is a collection of films, videos, photographs, and recordings that document the ephemeral nature of everything - from pigeons to Japanese paper!

Part of Ashley's project is the transfer of some 79 reels of her grandmother's home movies, a substantial undertaking in itself - a process which she's blogging along the way. Her site provides an excellent insight into home movie preservation and makes for darn good read too!

We wish Ashley every success with her mammouth task!

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Latest Small Format

Yeeeahh, the latest edition of the fab Small Format (3/2006) is out now and in our sticky mitts!

The sixty six pages are jam packed with Single 8, Super 8 and 16mm news, views and opinion, including an excellent piece on Franka Potente's (Run Lola Run) silent Super 8 Film and the full SP on Kodak's new Ektachrome 100D stock in 16mm. What got us drooling most was the feature on the new Ikonoskop 16mm camera, which kinda whet our appetite for the lowdown on the Arrri 416 just pages before, yummy!

If you haven't got a subscription yet, we're confused - sign up, switch on and get reading and filming!

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And.... we're back!

Summer recess here at onsuper8.org is sadly over and following a relaxing week involving a Fuji Marine 8 camera and the briny depths, we're back with more on everything small film...

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Super 8 Today Issue 5

This morning, with a satisfying thud on the doormat, postie delivered issue five of the excellent Super 8 Today to onsuper8.org HQ.

With it's usual mix of news, views and features, this issue is a particular gem with articles (amongst others) on Toronto's Super 8 guru John Porter, Jersey's Andy Evans and his Castaway feature (whom you'll know from these pages) plus a comparison of available reversal film stocks.

Super 8 Today is going from strength to strength with each and every issue and if you've more than a passing interest in small film you should subscribe, more details are available at www.super8today.com

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Home Movie Day - next Saturday

Next Saturday (12th August) is Home Movie Day and the worldwide list of small film related events gets ever longer with home movies in Austria, Canada, Italy, Japan, UK and USA getting an airing and their owners getting priceless first hand information on film preservation.

Get the full SP on Home Movie Day events and remember to read Retro Thing each day next week as they'll have daily posts discussing some home movie related retro things, right up to the big day.

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Nunchaku

London's Astbury brothers have released their latest film Nunchaku on their re-vamped website.

Shot on DV and Super 8 this stylish fifteen minute film tells the story of a nameless warrior through a series of hallucinogenic fantasy sequences. Making extensive use of anamorphic filming (shot at 2:35:1) Nunchaku is a visual treat, with a haunting and finely crafted score that perfectly accompanies the stunning imagery.

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"I want to cry"

This posting on the Gungirl Productions blog pretty much captures the thrill of getting your first reel of Super 8 film back...

"I was just looking at let's say 1 foot of film. I can't even begin to imagine what the other 49 feet look like! And in motion too! I've never been this happy all week. All because of film."

...Gungirl, welcome to the fold!

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Ektachrome 100D in Double Super 8

Wittner has announced the release of Kodak's Ektachrome 100D colour reversal film stock in Double Super 8 format. Samples are being shot at the moment and results will be published shortly.

Good news for those who film in Super 8's bigger brother and want a slightly faster reversal film - that just leaves the rest of us hanging on waiting... so when will we get the Super 8 version directly from the Big K?

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