OT: 1959 Kodak ad for 8 mm movie cameras/projectors

hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com

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Dec 11, 2019, 4:10:34 PM12/11/19

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ad by Kodak 1959 for automatic movie cameras and projectors

https://archive.org/details/the-saturday-evening-post-1959-05-23/page/n126

Kodak still makes 8 mm movie film
https://www.kodak.com/cl/es/motion/products/production/spotlight_on_super_8/super_8mm_products/index.htm

I'm not sure why anyone would want to use it as 8 mm had
pretty poor quality and digital is available now.

Are TV shows and movies still shot on film stock or
have they finally converted to electronic media?

obcomp: The IBM archives has the Watson family
home movies.

IBM made a late 1930s film describing its machine shop
operations--the various steps in taking raw materials
and making a tabulator out of them. Rather dry, but
still interesting.

Some IBM films are available on its history website.

There's a really neat Burroughs film available on YouTube.
Don't know if there's Univac or Honeywell films out there.

Dave Garland

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Dec 12, 2019, 2:46:17 AM12/12/19

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On 12/11/2019 3:10 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

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> Are TV shows and movies still shot on film stock or
> have they finally converted to electronic media?

Some movies are still shot on film, because some technical aspects
(like tonal range) are better than digital. Were any TV shows shot on
film? I suspect not once tape was adequate.

Digital definitely costs less, so predominates.

Scott Lurndal

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Dec 12, 2019, 9:33:47 AM12/12/19

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Dave Garland <dave.g...@wizinfo.com> writes:
>On 12/11/2019 3:10 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>
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>> Are TV shows and movies still shot on film stock or
>> have they finally converted to electronic media?
>
>Some movies are still shot on film, because some technical aspects
>(like tonal range) are better than digital. Were any TV shows shot on
>film? I suspect not once tape was adequate.

Yes, quite a few were shot on film; particularly once 16:9 started
to become common for TV (e.g Babylon 5 was shot on film, and telecined
to 4:3 for broadcast. Unfortunately, the effects weren't, which makes
them quite grainy on the DVDs.

hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com

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Dec 12, 2019, 1:56:24 PM12/12/19

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On Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 2:46:17 AM UTC-5, Dave Garland wrote:
> On 12/11/2019 3:10 PM, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Are TV shows and movies still shot on film stock or
> > have they finally converted to electronic media?
>
> Some movies are still shot on film, because some technical aspects
> (like tonal range) are better than digital. Were any TV shows shot on
> film? I suspect not once tape was adequate.

TV shows were shot on both film and video. Not sure why one
was chosen over the other.

Old shows today have very different levels of quality. For
instance, the films of Mannix are in great condition. However,
the films of Cannon are rather contrasty. Videos of various
shows are often badly faded.

Different filmstocks and processing have different retention.
My Kodak films developed by Kodak are in fine shape. Films
by others have faded, some of my old slides are completely gone.

hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com

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Dec 13, 2019, 3:36:50 PM12/13/19

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1960 ad by Argus for a sophisticated projector.
https://archive.org/details/the-saturday-evening-post-1960-09-10/page/n5

Here is an ad by dejur
https://archive.org/details/the-saturday-evening-post-1960-09-24/page/n96

Home movies were big in those days. But the camera/lightbar and
projector were expensive. So was film and processing. Most
people didn't bother to edit their films so they were disjointed
to watch--indeed, it was running joke at the time about the boredom
of home movies.

also GE stereo
https://archive.org/details/the-saturday-evening-post-1960-10-01/page/n56