Super 8 Mania!

May 31, 2005 7:10 AM

Nifty Super 8 box covers.
posted by Sticherbeast (9 comments total)

whoa! i wanna see "star crash"
posted by nola at 7:16 AM on May 31, 2005

Awesome.
posted by cortex at 8:32 AM on May 31, 2005

Black Emanuelle und die letzten Kannibalen. 70's cheese at it's best!
posted by arse_hat at 8:40 AM on May 31, 2005

[DER WEISSE HAI 2!]
posted by WolfDaddy at 9:26 AM on May 31, 2005

Wow, Laurel and Hardy were apparently known in Germany as "Dick and Doof"
posted by TonyRobots at 11:48 AM on May 31, 2005

Every now and then, you see some professionals use it. The Saddest Music in the World was filmed partly in Super 8 with almost all of the special effects done "in camera" (something that you just don't see much any more with blue-screen.)
posted by KirkJobSluder at 12:40 PM on May 31, 2005

A timely NYT article on the demise of Super-8.
posted by brain_drain at 2:57 PM on May 31, 2005

TonyRobots writes "Wow, Laurel and Hardy were apparently known in Germany as 'Dick and Doof'"

"Dick" means "thick" (as in heavy/large) and "doof" means "stupid".

One sometimes gets the feeling that Germans aren't the most subtle people in the world...
posted by clevershark at 3:14 PM on May 31, 2005

afroblanca: Does super-8 even support sound?

I recall one big innovation of super-8 was it had a magnetic recording strip on the edge of the film. This page on projectors says that there are 2 strips (for stereo , duh) and for some films the sound can be encoded optically. I guess 'optical sound' was an option you could choose when you sent your magnetic exposure to be processed.

I would think optical encoding would last longer than a surface coating of metal-oxide particles that can flake off.
posted by MonkeySaltedNuts at 9:04 PM on May 31, 2005