Right now on eBay, I've got a great 16mm print of Hanna Barbera's TOP CAT
cartoon. This quality 1961 non-hit cartoon series is a re-telling of the Phil
Silvers Sgt. Bilko show...Bilko castmember Doberman is even the voice of one of
Top Cat's gang! And the great Arnold Stang voices Top Cat himself. Too many
other famous HB voices to name...the usual crew.

TC is finally getting the credit he deserves! It's a well-made show, coming
fresh off the heels of The Flintstones' success. But it never caught on, then
along came The Jetsons. Why wasn't TC a big hit? My theory...first, no
significant female characters. Second, too much gambling, stealing, conning,
lying, womanizing going on! Bad example for the kids of 1961.

Channels like Boomerang and places like Kings Island really brought Top Cat some
new fans, like me. I was born in '61 and didn't see a TC cartoon till I was
about 40. I'm still a TC fan, and the only reason I'm selling the film is
because I'm trying to travel light, and I've seen it 20 times any way...time for
somebody else to enjoy it for awhile.

I've noticed there are lots of TC 8mm and Super 8 films out there, silent with
subtitles. This tells us that HB had high hopes for TC. I'm sorry to say every
8mm and Super 8 of TC I've owned is poorly transferred and plays poorly. You can
run 'em through a viewer and they play OK. TC is on the back of many many film
boxes, along with pics from other films. As a kid, I'd look at the box and
wonder who Top Cat was...never saw him on TV, and nobody I knew had TC 8mm
films.

If you do an eBay search on the phrase "16mm Top Cat," my film should come right
up. It's the episode called "The Unscratchables." I'd give the color quality a
7, but I've got a big picture from the film posted and you can judge for
yourself.



MWW
tC

Call for papers

Saving Private Reels
Presentation, Appropriation and Re-contextualisation of the
Amateur Moving Image
An international conference at University College Cork, Ireland
17-18 September 2010

Often underrated as a private and, thus, socially irrelevant
phenomenon, and equally
dismissed in aesthetic terms or at least confined to the domain of
amateur pictorialism, in
the 1960s the home movie became central to the personal, subjective
avant-garde and
experimental filmmaking of New American Cinema. The practice of incorporating
private home movies in experimental film and video resurfaced
powerfully over the past
decades, with artists such as Alan Berliner, Péter Forgács, Rea
Tajiri, Daniel Reeves and
Michelle Citron, among many others.

The socio-political impact of which private footage is potentially
capable is epitomized
by the most complete and most viewed recording of John F. Kennedy’s
assassination,
filmed on 8mm by Abraham Zapruder on November 22, 1963, as well as by
more recent
examples, such as the beating of Rodney King, videotaped in Los
Angeles by bystander
George Holliday on March 2, 1991, which played an important part in
triggering the Los
Even films that do not happen to capture significant events and
historical moments, but
focus instead on domestic settings, private occasions or everyday
scenes in the public
sphere have now become valuable documents of the customs, values, identities,
practices, rituals and historical realities of generations of amateur
filmmakers. What
makes them so relevant today is precisely what previously relegated them – their
ephemeral, private and subjective nature.

As a result of the waning of authority and objectivity as compelling
social narratives,
alternative, subjective and contingent accounts of reality have become
more appealing.
The proliferation of amateur videos and video-diaries on the Internet
testifies to the
strength and intensity of the phenomenon. In parallel, the humanities
have registered an
ever-growing interest in self-representation, first-person narratives
and practices of
memorialization that go beyond official historiography. The success of
recent non-
fictions such as Andrew Jarecki’s Capturing the Friedmans and Jonathan
Caouette’s
Tarnation has once again demonstrated the eloquence and power of
private images when
used for purposes of historical and cultural investigation and of
self-scrutiny and
This conference aims to explore the pressing issues of the use, presentation,
appropriation and re-contextualisation of the amateur moving image, of
our relationship
with it, both historically and today, and of the senses and meanings
of its encounters with
a variety of contexts, technologies and discourses.

Papers of the duration of 20 minutes and pre-organized panels of up to 4 papers
can address the following or related topics and issues:
Private document, memory, memorialization
The first-person documentary and autobiographical cinema
The personal on the Internet: YouTube, Videoblogs
The re-contextualization of amateur footage in fiction and documentary
Capturing the Zeitgeist, making history: amateur newsreels
Imagining the nation, imagining the self
Leisure and pleasure and the touristic gaze
Amateur filmmaking and modernity
The banal, the commonplace, the repetitious
Reflections of class, ideology and society
From 8mm to digital: evolution of amateur technologies
Shooting on the edge: guerrilla filmmaking

Confirmed keynote speaker: Patricia Zimmerman, Professor in the Department of
Cinema, Photography and Media Arts at Ithaca College, Ithaca, New
York, USA, author
of Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (Indiana, 1995) and
co-editor of Mining the
Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories (California, 2008)

Submissions: Panel and single paper proposals (abstracts of 300/500
words plus short
bibliography) should be sent to the following email address, along with a brief
biographical note, by Monday 8 February 2010: ucchomemovies@...
Conference homepage: For further information and for updates visit our homepage,
http://www.ucc.ie/en/filmstudies/research/conferences/amateur/

Organizers: Dr Barry Monahan, Dr Laura Rascaroli, Dr Gwenda Young (University
A conference part-funded by the Irish Research Council for the
Humanities and Social Sciences, as
part of the research project Capturing the Nation: Irish Home Movies, 1930-1970

Greetings to all the Small-Gaugers out there --

We've been given the relatively happy meeting time of 1:00 - 3:00 on
THursday Nov. 5th -- mark your calendars!

If you have any items / announcements you'd like to add to the agenda,
please email them to both of us co-chairs:

asteg@...
auhrich@...

See you in St. Louis!

Albert Steg & Andy Uhrich
AMIA SG/AFIG Co-Chairs

>> "...DVDs freeze just as often as VHS tapes jammed..."
>
> Mike warden wrote:
> That's just NOT TRUE. I can count on one hand the number of times a
> VHS tape "jammed." And I've had maybe 10 get eaten. This is all over
> a 30 year period. There is NO WAY you can say that DVDs are as
> reliable as VHS!

Mike -- I think if you study the passage again, in context, you'll
find that we aren't claiming that DVD's are any more or any less
reliable than VHS.  The gist of the paragraph is to disabuse people of
the casual notion that "new (dvd) is better."   VHS tapes can jam;
DVD's can freeze.  Neither are a reliable preservation vehicle and
certainly neither should be thought of as a replacement for the
originals.

best,
Albert Steg
Center for Home Movies

Dear Small-Gaugers & Amateur Film Groupers --

A new document providing guidance to people seeking transfers of their
home movies has been posted on the HMD Site:

http://www.homemovieday.com/transfer.html

There is also a link there  to a printer-friendly .pdf version:

http://www.homemovieday.com/Transfer_Issues.pdf

Also, the Center for Home Movies is currently reviewing our "Transfer
House" listings, and asking those services to affirm certain
fundamentals (always returning originals, respecting intellectual
property rights) in order to keep their space on the HMD site.  The
listings will be cleared of entries in about a week's time, and
responsive services will be re-listed in time for HMD 2009.

Best Wishes,
Albert Steg
Center for Home Movies
Small Gauge / Amateur Film Interest Group co-chair

Right now on eBay, I've got a couple film auctions going. One auction is for a
bunch of short clips, the other for a 30-second reel. A-1 excellent condition.
If you do an eBay search on the phrase "16mm houseboat" you should find one of
my auctions, then from there you can check out the other one.

MWW

What about the Kinsey Institute Film Archives? Here is a link to them. I'm not
sure who the archivist is now, it's been quite a few years since they did their
presentation at AMIA in Vancouver.

http://iub.edu/~kinsey/library/film.html


************
Libby Burke


On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Albert Steg wrote:

>  
>
> > Hello Folks - is there any archive out there of early
> adult films or
> > x-
> > rated 8 mm films that purchases collection materials ?
>
> Hi Tom -- I don't know of any archive that would pay for
> this
> material. (60's/70's 8mm stag films are not at all rare). If
> you sell
> it on eBay in the adult section and you may find someone to
> meet your
> price.
>
> Albert Steg
> Cambridge MA
>
>
>
>

> Hello Folks - is there any archive out there of early adult films or
> x-
> rated 8 mm films that purchases collection materials ?

Hi Tom -- I don't know of any archive that would pay for this
material. (60's/70's 8mm stag films are not at all rare). If you sell
it on eBay in the adult section and you may find someone to meet your
price.

Albert Steg
Cambridge MA

Hello Folks - is there any archive out there of early adult films or x-
rated 8 mm films that purchases

  collection materials ?   Over the weekend  I bought a cool keystone
projector and the guy had his grandfathers

8mm  adult films. I would guess  from 70s and before as far as era.
There must be like approx 10 reels on  200 foot- 400 foot reels

some have box, some dont ..  You can have for  60.00 for the lot
including  shipping..

Not sure of the content of the reels.
Thanks for info and advice

Tom  419-474-3065

Hello all,

Louisa and have been working on a new project using much of the 16mm home movie
footage from the TAMIS collection. Not mentioned in the article is that the
production will be available for sale on DVD.

Lots of interest in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park this year (75th
anniversary), so we felt we just had to share this amazing and unseen amatuer
film footage.

Here is the story, along with samples of the early 1928 home movies.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/aug/23/home-movies-basis-of-smokies-film/

Thank you,

Brad
Bradley Reeves
Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound
Knoxville, TN
stymiedc@...
865-215-8856

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Right now on eBay, I've got a bunch of small 16mm clips for sale, ranging from 2
to 30 seconds long, containing shots of Cincinnati, San Diego and New Orleans.
Shot in 2006. Shown about 3 times. Just do an eBay search on the phrase "16mm
San Diego" and it should turn right up!

Love or hate eBay, it's still a fun place to look around.

Used an indoor film to shoot in sunlight, causing a slight blue tint. I've
already shot a lot of this film and got it back, and was well aware of this
effect and shot accordingly. I was shooting with Kodak 7243, a discontinued
stock that apparently was never very popular. Got 2000 feet worth on eBay for 20
bucks...didn't realize how difficult it would be to get it processed! It's an
intermediate film, I think that means you're shooting a negative, and to watch
it on a projector you need to make a positve copy from it. Looked everywhere,
somebody on a yahoogroup list suggested Fotokem. Luckily, Fotokem was able to
processs the film, and at a pretty good price, too. So, it turns out my $20 eBay
film find was a home run. Anyone know how much 2000 feet of 7243 went for when
new? Hell, the CAN alone is worth $20. One skeptical listmember said nobody
would process the film and all that it was good for was ribbon to decorate my
apartment! First...I'm a GUY and
  don't use much ribbon...secondly, come on over anytime and I'll run that
useless "ribbon" through my projector for you.

The blue tint really adds a fun dimension to the film, especially in the New
Orleans shots. If you are interested in the a copy of the complete SD/NO/CIN
film that the clips are taken from, let me know. The SD shots have lots of
surfing and a funky area called Ocean Beach. I was thinking of getting a
high-contrast b/w print made, or regular B/W, or maybe even a B/W 8mm copy if
that's possible!


MWW

hi

new film here in Super 8

contains stop frame animation, multiple exposure, and optical printing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rglo4za0EHQ

please enjoy!

thanks

R

I will be out of the office starting  06/12/2009 and will not return until
06/17/2009.

I will respond to your message when I return.

On behalf of the Centre National de l'Audiovisuel, let me spread the word about their second conference devoted to amateur film and images. The first, held last year, brought together inspiring contributions from academic, artists and archivists working in many different disciplines. With apologies for cross-posting,

Guy Edmonds

-----------------

Due to the success of the First Interdisciplinary Conference on Amateur Images held in Luxembourg in January 2008 (the conference papers "Private Eyes and the Public Gaze. The Valorisation and Manipulation of Amateur Images" are currently in print), the Centre National de l'Audiovisuel (CNA) and the University of Luxembourg are organising a second edition entitled Tourists and Nomads. Amateur Images of Migration to be held in Luxembourg from 22 to 24 April 2010.

Drawing on Zygmunt Bauman's distinction between two types of deterritorialisation, lived by “tourists” (moving out of choice) or by “nomads” (migrating out of economic necessity), this conference seeks to examine how experiences of spatial displacement are being represented and communicated by self-made photographs or films. The title is deliberately left rather open to encompass all kind of disciplinary approaches (anthropology, sociology, history, visual communication, gender studies, cultural studies etc.) and to allow for archivists and artists who deal with amateur images in the context of migration to feel equally addressed.

The term “migration” is thus used very broadly and may be applied to colonial settlers. The question is whether and how their home movies may be used to analyse and possibly denounce the exploitation on which their lifestyle rested. Tourists and explorers – a distinction that is always in the eye of the beholder (The tourist is the other fellow, said Evelyn Waugh) – may also be considered as temporary migrants who are making great deal of photographs and films. In the digital age the number of holiday pictures and clips has exploded and one may wonder how to deal with this phenomenon, both scientifically and archivally. Political and labour migration is of course a whole field of research, but it has rarely been looked at under the viewpoint of image production, reception and conservation.

One question that looms large behind is that of the relationship between amateur images and historical consciousness. As Robert Rosen has put it in his contribution to Mining the Home Movies (Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia Zimmermann, 2008), three group of intentioned memory workers converge in the construction of meaning: the amateur filmmakers themselves; those who disseminate the photographs and films (documentary filmmakers, but also archivists, academics and artists) and the audience, who has its own historical background and transforms the meaning accordingly. The conference seeks to address all three types of actors:

How did people seek to share their experience of new places and encounters with family members or friends who stayed at home?

How has this visual material been archived, used in documentary or fiction films? How have artists been using these images or have been inspired by them?  

How “migrant” are the images themselves in terms of shifting significations, new locations and contextualisations?

The conference Tourists and Nomads. Amateur Images of Migration will be held at the University of Luxembourg (Campus Limpertsberg) and the Centre National de l’Audiovisuel (Dudelange, L) from 22 to 24 April 2010.

The working language is English. Conferences may also be held in French, if accompanied by an explanatory PowerPoint presentation in English. There will be no simultaneous translation. Accommodation and travel costs (up to a certain amount) will be covered by the organisers.

Abstracts of approx. 300 words, written in French or English, and a short CV should be sent before 15 September 2009 to the following e-mail address: viviane.thill@...

This conference is organized by Sonja Kmec (University of Luxembourg, Research Unit IPSE – Identités, Politiques, Sociétés, Espaces) and Viviane Thill (Centre national de l’audiovisuel). It will be accompanied by a photo exhibition on the same topic, curated by Marguy Conzémius and Michèle Walerich of the Centre national de l’audiovisuel

Legendary amateur filmmaker Robbins Barstow, creator of Tarzan and the
Rocky Gorge, Disneyland Dream and so many other films, is the featured
interviewee on the latest Fan Film Podcast. Download it at:

http://fanfilmpodcast.mypodcast.com/index.html

Dwight

--- In smallgauge@yahoogroups.com, Dwight Swanson <dwswan@...> wrote:
>
> There will be a three day tribute to filmmaker Helen Hill in
> Philadelphia May 7-9.
>
> The program will include a screening of "The Adventures of Prince
> Achmed" (by Lotte Reiniger), all of Helen's animation, plus some
> special surprise films and a guest appearance by Helen's mother Becky
> Lewis.  The weekend will end with a super 8 hand processing and
> camera-less filmmaking workshop, inspired by Helen's film "Madame
> Winger Makes a Film."
>
> For more information see:
> http://www.ihousephilly.org/helenhill.htm
>
> Dwight Swanson
>


many thanks

sadly missed film-maker :-|

Ric

There will be a three day tribute to filmmaker Helen Hill in
Philadelphia May 7-9.

The program will include a screening of "The Adventures of Prince
Achmed" (by Lotte Reiniger), all of Helen's animation, plus some
special surprise films and a guest appearance by Helen's mother Becky
Lewis.  The weekend will end with a super 8 hand processing and
camera-less filmmaking workshop, inspired by Helen's film "Madame
Winger Makes a Film."

For more information see:
http://www.ihousephilly.org/helenhill.htm

Dwight Swanson

Never mind, after some Hardy Boys-style investigative Googling, I was
able to figure out the problem.

Dwight

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Lampert Andrew
<andrew@...> wrote:
>
>
> What is the question? I don’t own one, but maybe it is something that
> someone here might know?
>
> A.
>
>
> On 4/11/09 6:39 PM, "Dwight Swanson" <dwswan@...> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Does anyone own a Yashica 25 Super 8 camera or have a manual?  I got
> one cheap on eBay but have a question that the seller can't answer.
>
> Dwight
>
>
>
>
>

  

  


Hello all,

If you live or happen to find yourself visiting London, try to pay a visit to Umit and Sons Films in Hackney. Amazing and hard to believe trip back in time. Umit is a friendly and knowledgeable guy, still keeping the faith in all things film. Just don't know how he stays in business in the digital era!

Umit has stacks and piles of 8mm, 9.5, 16mm, 35mm films of all types. Cameras and projection equipment for rent and/or sale. He has some 22 mm as well (though holding on to this!). Just a good as film museum. Plan on spending hours - bring a check book. He specializes in 8mm.

Here is a bit more info:

http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/umit-and-son-london

Brad

http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/umit-and-son-london
Bradley Reeves
Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound
Knoxville, TN
stymiedc@... <mailto:stymiedc%40yahoo.com>
865-215-8856