Star Wars Super 8 MM film reel. Happy Anniversary May 25, 2022.

[@liammartin8606]

Nice clean print. Thanks for uploading. I just edited two 400ft reels of both digests of Star Wars onto an 800ft reel in order. Took over an hour to do but it was worth the effort.

[@judehanley9980]

Thank you so much. I remember seeing this for sale at K Mart back in 78 or 79. Finally I got to watch it. I waited 43 years for those couple of minutes 😊

[@ZanyMadcap]

That's a great story! Thank you as well 💜.

[@erickutepow]

When I was a really little kid my father got this 8mm from the library along with a projector. He showed movie to me and my friends at on of my birthday parties. What a great memory. Thank you for making this video.

[@amybade]

Love it - My bro and I watched it so many times as kids on the dining room wall! Thanks for the memories

[@ZanyMadcap]

Thanks guy! How did you find this? Did it just appear when you opened the app? I fully expected this video to be completely ignored, so I'm curious, haha.

[@ventues9751]

@@ZanyMadcap This is a classic with film collectors !!!!

[@ventues9751]

I still have hundreds of these films !!! I have been collecting them since 1976. Castle Films that every store had back then !!!

[@amybade]

@@ZanyMadcap I think i just googled 'star wars' and '8 mm'

[@lesliegibson5964]

@@ventues9751incredible you should share them With us I would love to see them

[@fredfunk4049]

God bless you. For keeping the old school alive. Tears seeing this. Mine was Black stallion movie.

[@mandalorian23]

Awesome. I was thinking of picking up a copy of this and Empire off of Ebay.

[@ventues9751]

You should. They are very rare!!!

[@DoorwayToNightmare]

I bought this at Kmart when it was first released...your upload brought back many wonderful childhood memories. At the time, I had a Kodak Super 8 Sound project (the kind that layed flat with a pull out private mini screen). Thanks for the memories!

[@TheTerryGene]

@@DoorwayToNightmare I had one of those Kodak projectors, as well as one of their sound cameras. A real gateway drug to Super 8 collecting!😂

[@jkfns0w]

A slice of priceless nostalgia - thanks! I once had this same 8mm version; I think it tiredly succumbed to the force at some point. Fascinating to see how the colour slowly leaches away over time. My initial memory of first watching this after purchase, knowing it was only going to run for a brief eight minutes, was anxiety over the opening inclusion of Luke and Ben’s force dialogue - where’s ILM’s effing good stuff?! Then, the bridging cut from the cruiser approaching the Death Star to the entire Tie Fighter attack scene seemed supremely daft. Luke, thanks to the ding-dong editors at Ken Films, is somehow magically transported from the previous scene. Better instead to have included the complete and uninterrupted build-up to the Tie Fighter attack. Good old Ken!

[@sim61642]

Discovered this in my aunt's attic but no projector. now i know what it looks like, thanks for the video :)

[@thehappyvintagesloth9676]

Wow! A Whole different world back then. I miss it.

[@ventues9751]

I miss it too !!! I have hundreds of these movies still :)

[@ventues9751]

These were popular back in the late 70's, before the invention of VHS tapes

[@cbdebill4]

Yeah, mine turned orange, too.

[@superdavid002]

I'd see these for sale in comic book ads but never bought one because I wanted to see the complete movies.

[@garyl5128]

I'm pretty sure this is the one I had, though the projector didn't have sound. For the audio, I recorded the relevant bits from the double LP The Story of Star Wars to a portable cassette player, and played it back that way. It was magical back then, and now when I watch it at home it has even more nostalgic importance, especially Obi Wans dialogue..

[@TheNickandmichelle]

Nice copy! My copy still looks pretty good too. Love analog.

[@jjphoenix4055]

My copy of this was slightely different. It was inside a plastic case instead of cardboard and the main titles where from the movie, not these shown in here. The good old days of Super8! Entertainment was a LOT more enticing than nowadays.

[@ZanyMadcap]

@@jjphoenix4055 Holy crap I’ve never seen one of those.

[@alexabadi7458]

Funny, I have S8 projectors and movies, and my birthday is May 25th ! :o)

[@Exocartonic]

Wow, this takes me back.

[@jeffreysnow2640]

If you were lucky enough to have a super 8mm sound projector :)

[@REDISCOVERBLADES]

Thanks for sharing this

[@planoinfinito3809]

fantástico amigo, un saludo.

[@leebreadman]

Thanks....i use to have this reel and don't know what happened to it

[@favmansanimatronicsmore2377]

Most cheap colour film from the 1960s-80s turns red due to the colour pigments/die degrading. It’s just what happens. Thankfully most of these films can be saved if they are scanned in digitally so colour correction can be applied.

[@wkanost]

I still have two copies of this.

[@PaulChiesa-db5zn]

The original version before they started tinkering with it for a special edition

[@ventues9751]

These are very rare today !!!

[@rock-steadi-cam5058]

Rather bizarre they would devote almost half the runing-time to a dialog scene; especially considering many people would watch this without sound!

[@gregorydahl]

There was a trench scene film . But it must have been sold out at kmart

[@IanJackln-cw5ym]

This 8mm version does not start like this.. It starts with the blockade runner scene.

[@jamesfannon5109]

Is there some sort of speaker built into the projector itself?

[@RafaelFerreira-pn5my]

Yess

[@gregorydahl]

I was able to pinch and zoom my phone screen an make the movie fill the screen . Can yours do that too ?

[@tomasbenedictomaza]

en 1980 la vi en el colegio con 14 años era lo más y hoy tengo todas las películas las 11 con resolucion 4K además de todas las series también en 4K incluyendo las series animadas en fin todo

[@ZanyMadcap]

¡yo también!

[@tomasbenedictomaza]

@@ZanyMadcap este es el camino

[@rock-steadi-cam5058]

I gather this is the "color" version although it's pretty-damn monochrome now! I have some 70mm clips of the 1977 movies and the color is also quite faded (although not quite as bad as this). I also recently found some "type-C" Kodak color prints from the same era, which also have the "magenta shift" (although not as bad as the color print film). So many color processes have lasted long and better, it's a real shame Kodak ruined a decade of art with their badly-fading color print dyes. Also, this seems to be the least-concientious possible edit of the movie. More than half the time given-up to exposition (in a version most people will watch without sound!), and missing the climax of the movie, the jump to light speed, the light-sabre battle, etc.

[@stopmo01]

Awesome!!!

[@thatwasthedaythatwas]

Where are you getting the audio from?

[@KingNP41]

the projector's built in speaker most likely

[@kylewinward8847]

Yes. I also had this same question. I used to think there were two different versions with sound and some without, but I see that it's more likely that our projector didn't have a speaker.

[@KingNP41]

@@kylewinward8847 either the projector didn’t have a speaker as it was an 8mm projector or it was a super 8mm projector that either had a built in speaker or came with an external one… however, if it has the port to send the audio externally you can probably hook it up with the right cable to a generic modern day speaker with or without an adapter…

[@kylewinward8847]

@@KingNP41 thank you and makes good sense. I recall that my dad's projector was a 8mm not a super 8mm, which as you wrote, explains the lack of audio. It was still a lot of fun. My dad showed it at my 7th birthday party in 1977. We would ask him to stop and reverse our favorites parts such as the doors closing in front of Vader. As I recall we could see the foil of his sword in that shot; the post-production light saber effect was missing.

[@gregorydahl]

I had the kenfilm same company same movie in color and sound was on a magnetic tape strip along the edge of the film . It was called super 8 and was a little different size than 8mm . shown here . The super 8 sound projector had a speaker or you could plug it into a stereo and reall blast it loud outside .

[@BlackMaria61]

I have this but the colours are still ok

[@mikemac2888]

Do you have the reel where Han shoots first? (asking for a friend)

[@ZanyMadcap]

Han shot *only* 😂.

[@Threemicsrecords]

What Projector is that?

[@ZanyMadcap]

I believe it's a Bell & Howell 33 SR.

[@MaxRussel-m7t]

So to the eye in real life does this appear monochromatic like in the video or is that just the camera?

[@ZanyMadcap]

@@MaxRussel-m7t what you see is pretty accurate. The film has yellowed with time.

[@BlackMaria61]

A lot of Colour film fades to the red over time

[@TheTerryGene]

This is a problem that has existed since the 1950’s when Eastmancolor supplanted three strip TechniColor, which was less prone to fading. It is called Magenta Syndrome. All color film prints will fade over time unless properly restored. That is why film preservation is so important.

[@pabloojeda3596]

Que valor puede tener una copia original en estos días?

[@ZanyMadcap]

@@pabloojeda3596 No mucho. Se pueden encontrar en eBay por unos 40 dólares.

[@fenixlolnope361]

why didn't they offer these with multiple reels so you could get the whole film? Kinda lame in a way, but a unique curiosity. I'd love to have a real copy of star wars on film lmao xD

[@KingNP41]

a real copy of star wars on film would be incredibly hard to find due to them getting shipped back to the studio after premiere... or you would have to spend a stupid amount of money... movie reels are big and heavy...

[@dashripkin]

Wouldn't we all ....

[@truefilm6991]

They did. Derann Films in Dudley, West Midlands, UK, (which sadly closed some time ago) had a full length edition of Star Wars in CinemaScope (full width, needs a special lens attachment) and stereo sound. Released in 1989. Back in the heyday of Super 8 prints, digests were the norm. Full length was rare and very expensive. Derann prints were mostly of fantastic quality, since they got their hands on high quality negatives - and they kept the price reasonable.

[@jorgezarco9269]

Mucas-Film Ltd.

[@stephengolombecki8666]

Was the quality really this bad? Dang

[@ZanyMadcap]

Yep 😂

[@rock-steadi-cam5058]

@@ZanyMadcap NO! The color was completely normal when the film was new, and for many years after that.

[@ventues9751]

@@rock-steadi-cam5058 The color faded after time. They used very cheap color film stock. The black & white versions still look fine