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What's the appeal of 16mm film??
Dunrobin:
--- Quote from: wallawalla on February 13, 2005, 01:48:55 PM ---Another advantage of 16mm is that you can hang a sheet on the side of your house and show the Stooges in a real theater-like setting, on a nice summer evening with as many friends as you want. No worries about how many people can actually crowd around a TV.
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When I was a kid in 1965, they did that at the Community Center in the park across the street from my grandparents' house, in Hamburg, NY. I don't remember them showing any Three Stooges, but there was a different movie every night (except Sundays, I think, and of course not when it was raining), all through the summer. I remember seeing some of Vincent Price's Edgar Allen Poe movies like that, along with 1950's sci-fi and horror flicks, and probably a lot of stuff from the 30's and 40's. (Senility is setting in, and I don't remember the line-up so well these days.)
It was a fantastic way to spend a summer! [thumbsup]
3Stooges:
Thanks everyone for the info. I may end up getting a 16mm projector just for "Pardon My Backfire" in real 3D.
shemps#1:
Here's another question for you 16mm buffs. I checked eBay for shits and giggles, and a couple of the auctions there state that there is no vinegar smell on the prints. What's with vinegar? I'd imagine it would damage the film.
BeAStooge:
--- Quote from: shemps#1 on February 14, 2005, 02:04:01 PM ---Here's another question for you 16mm buffs. I checked eBay for shits and giggles, and a couple of the auctions there state that there is no vinegar smell on the prints. What's with vinegar? I'd imagine it would damage the film.
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Film is acetate-based. If the film begins to decompose (extreme age, poor storage conditions, etc.) it emits an acetic acid odor, aka "vinegar smell."
locoboymakesgood:
--- Quote from: Dunrobin on February 13, 2005, 06:34:03 PM ---When I was a kid in 1965, they did that at the Community Center in the park across the street from my grandparents' house, in Hamburg, NY.
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Small world - I'm from North Tonawanda! :-)
My late-father has an 8MM, Super 8MM, and a 16MM silent projector. I never saw the 16MM in action, but one film he always had stored away was a Stooges film with Shemp called Eye Doctors. Now, as I know most of the time with 16MM silent films, they general were short in length.. and since I know there's no short called 'Eye Doctors', can anyone tell me what it is exactly? The projectors and move are at my fathers house.. but I know the box to the movie was yellow and it had a pair of glasses where the two 'O's in Stooges should be.
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