Famous Monsters - Projecting and Collecting 8mm Movies

[@BullVW]

My Dad bought a Bell & Howell 8mm camera and projector set, probably late 1950s. It came with a vampire movie (not sure the name) and Abbott & Costello Meet the Keystone Kops. We played those until they fell apart.

[@AnaloguePhoto]

I found an old Charlie Chaplin, short movie, but don't remember seeing it when I was a kid. Probably because it was a regular 8mm movie. And my dad had bought a super-8 system. A friend of mine's dad had all kind of 8mm and 16mm projectors. And got a 8mm cartoon (French fantasy history character "Asterix" contemporary with Julius Caesar) which we watched several times a day for weeks on end. It was a sound movie of this character visiting Egypt and Cleopatra. We couldn't get enough of this short movie of 3 or 4 minutes length. This probably took place in about 1973 or 1974, when we were 11 or 12 years old.

[@geophizz]

My local department store would sell 50' versions of dozens of movies for $5-10. I had 50' versions of Bride of Frankenstein and The Invisible Man. My local library had dozens of 400 foot films sold by Republic Pictures to loan out as well. They didn't have monster movies but had more general subjects. I saw almost all of Chaplin's shorts, plus documentaries and newsreels.

[@Dantegrey1]

I have some Super 8 films. I did not as a kid. I did, however, watch a digest of Laurel & Hardy's Babes in the Woods in this format, when I was about 5. It started a life long love for those comedians. A few years later, I saw Pinchcliffe Grand Prix at a birthday party. I have been fascinated with projected celluloid film ever since.

[@aengusmacnaughton1375]

Lessee -- late 1960s and very early 1970s, before my parents divorced, my dad had regular 8 camera equipment and a projector, and I remember watching some Popeye cartoons on the projector....

[@aengusmacnaughton1375]

Any idea what the copyright implications are of scanning these old condensed theatrical films and then posting that online?

[@FilmPhotographyProject]

Can scan for personal use. I've posted some on-line (like the full TheRaven - kzbin.info/www/bejne/l2LWpXeHrrNlkJIsi=n8vrNzMXCR3RgKmY). KZbin will "de-monitize" the video.