For 40 years I used many different filming techniques with
the wonderful Kodachrome 40 Super 8 film: fast/slow motion,
overlap dissovlve, fade in/out, reverse photography. When
the new Ektachrome 64T Super 8 film first came out, I could
continue using all of my camera special functions. But,
beginning last last summer, I can no longer do reverse
filming or the overlap dissolve features because the film
does not seem to go backwards in the cartridge of the 64T.
That is to say, I can still use techniques that require
the film go go backwards in the camera in 1 out of 5 of
the 64T films, but not with all of them. I have contacted
Kodak with mixed results: first they told me that Kodak
Super 8 films could never reverse in the cartridges (but
my 40 years of filming with these techniques told me that
this was not accurate); then Kodak told me that they are
making cartridges that do not allow the 64T to reverse in
the camera; then Kodak told me that they are using the
very same cartridges with the 64T films that they used
for all the years of the Kodachrome 40. Does anyone
know why I cannot use reverse techniques anymore with
the 64T Super 8 films? These techniques are basic to
filmmaking and essential to my moviemaking.