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A Brush With Greatness - Pt2
Authored by: Dale.Harkness on Friday, February 22 2013 @ 12:15 PM EST

Stop animation is quite interesting in itself, let alone when I consider who the creative drive behind the short was. Ironically, I still have a 16mm projector too and would love to find some 16mm films to play. There's something pleasing about film. Perhaps it's nostalgia, but 16mm or any other type of ilm has a warm, natural feeling to it that DV doesn't capture.

A Brush With Greatness - Pt2
Authored by: masodo on Friday, February 22 2013 @ 01:00 PM EST

When I was in high school, my friends and I were big into Super-8 - as "big into" as you could be at $15 per 4-1/2 minutes runtime on a high school kids budget. Stop motion always factored in as a great low budget special effect. Kids today have it pretty good in that they can produce videos for practically nothing. (spoken like a true codger :)

I have often thought about doing stop motion digitally but have never taken the time.

I too am in possession of a 16mm Projector - only last week I was researching resources for getting movies and found what is available is relatively cheep compared to what they went for in their hay-day but still, the purchasing of movies would be a luxury I could never imagine being able to justify. Used to be... I could go to the public library and borrow quite a variety of them but those days are long gone.

I am glad you checked out this post - thanks for the comments!

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A Brush With Greatness - Pt2
Authored by: Dale.Harkness on Sunday, February 24 2013 @ 04:50 PM EST

Ebay seems to be the largest source I've found for 16mm movies. Sadly, as you pointed out, the costs are still too prohibitive for casual viewers like us.

One example of a movie I saw go through on ebay was Saturn 3, a science fiction film from 1980. While it's not exactly a masterpiece, it would have been fun to have around for a summer Friday evening showing on the back deck. It went for around 500+ dollars if I recall which is completely outside of my budget. Sort of unfortunate because having a projector and no film is a waste. Still, one never knows so I'll keep my eye watchful on ebay now and then.

As for the projector, I found an Eiki NT-0 in a thrift store about four years ago. One of the local schools had apparently given it to the store and I managed to snag it for 10 dollars. I'll post a picture of it up on my blog one of these days. :)

-Dale

A Brush With Greatness - Pt2
Authored by: Dale.Harkness on Sunday, February 24 2013 @ 04:58 PM EST

Thinking about it in more detail, the two films I truly would like on 16mm are somewhat related at least in topic: "Planet of the Vampires" and "Alien". While the director of Alien said Planet of the Vampires had no influence on the making of Alien, there are a few similarities between the two films that are uncanny at times considering the time span between when they were both filmed.

For me, both films were influential in key ways. I recall seeing Planet of the Vampires on the typical Saturday afternoon monster-movie sequences they ran in those days. Talk about cool.

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