Found Star Wars on Super 8!

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2006-07-07 02:00pm

My uncle's father used to run a hotel that had old Super 8 movies, one day he was throwing out some old stuff of his and my aunt rescued a copy of Star Wars in the old Super 8 format. Film is in excellent condition and the box is in great shape also. I can't find out much about what it is worth value wise but since I don't plan on selling it it is a moot point. My brother was given the copy of the original Godzilla movie.

Spetulhu · Post by **Spetulhu** » 2006-07-07 03:17pm

Winning bid: £37.84
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/star-wars-super-8 ... dZViewItem

I'm sure a collector would pay even more if he really wanted this item. Few others would want to spend money on something they can't watch without a Super 8 projector.

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2006-07-09 12:05am

I remember when those used to be advertised in Starlog when it was still a cool SF magazine instead of a studio whoring glossy-print rag.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-07-09 12:13am

Spetulhu wrote:Few others would want to spend money on something they can't watch without a Super 8 projector.

And risk scratching or breaking it? You must be mad.

Spetulhu · Post by **Spetulhu** » 2006-07-09 04:35am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Spetulhu wrote:Few others would want to spend money on something they can't watch without a Super 8 projector.
And risk scratching or breaking it? You must be mad.

Duh. Collectors buy the film just for having it. Other people don't see the need for something they can't use.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-07-09 04:43am

Spetulhu wrote:
Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
Spetulhu wrote:Few others would want to spend money on something they can't watch without a Super 8 projector.
And risk scratching or breaking it? You must be mad.
Duh. Collectors buy the film just for having it. Other people don't see the need for something they can't use.

That was mostly in jest, but honestly, who else would buy something like this other than a collector?

EDIT: Fuck, I realised this was pointless. Nevermind.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2006-07-09 11:37am

What's the quality of Super 8 compared to other formats? Would a DVD transfer from Super 8 be better or worse than the Laserdisc transfers they're putting out in a few months?

Instant Sunrise · Post by **Instant Sunrise** » 2006-07-09 07:48pm

Fanboy, do you know which release this is?

According to Toys'R'Gus:
Video and Film / Super 8
A New Hope
Ken Films
___ SW Super 8 Film--B&W
___ SW Super 8 Film--Color, Silent
___ SW Super 8 Film--Color, Sound 17 Minutes(400 feet)
___ SW Super 8 Film--Color, Sound 17 Minutes, Spanish Language
___ SW Super 8 Film--Color, Sound 4 Minutes(100 feet)
___ SW Super 8 Film--Color, Sound 8 Minutes(200 feet)
___ SW Super 8 Film--Color, Sound 8 Minutes, Spanish Language
Empire Strikes Back
Ken Films
___ ESB Super 8 Film Part 2--Color, Sound 17 Minutes
___ ESB Super 8 Film--Color, Sound 17 Minutes
___ ESB Super 8 Film--Color, Sound 17 Minutes, Spanish Language
___ ESB Super 8 Film--Color, Sound 4 Minutes

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2006-07-09 10:04pm

42.5 Meters, also gives me the number F48, whatever that means. Says nothing about sound or color but it does have Han and Chewie on the box cover.

Edit:

Upon further review with info from http://www.sandcrawler.com/SWB/k.html, I think its the 8 minute one. Supposedly only the scenes with Obi Wan telling Luke about the Force and the escape from the Death Star.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-07-09 11:04pm

Drooling Iguana wrote:What's the quality of Super 8 compared to other formats? Would a DVD transfer from Super 8 be better or worse than the Laserdisc transfers they're putting out in a few months?

You know all of those old home movies that people shot on film between the 1940s and 1970s?

That's 8mm film. Super 8 is just 8mm with sound.

Standard movie film is 35mm.

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2006-07-09 11:58pm

Ah. So significantly worse than laserdisc, then.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2006-07-10 12:11am

Yes, very much so.

Blowing up from 16mm to 35mm isn't really that bad, but blowing up from 8mm to 35mm is terrible.

The guys behind The Evil Dead used to make tons of 8mm and super 8 films, so to see if costs could be cut down for their big movie making project, they did a short test film in 8mm so they could see what it looked like when blown up to 35mm. The results were terrible: the grain was so bad that Bruce Campbell described it like watching a movie through a snowstorm. So they bit the bullet and shot The Evil Dead in 16mm, then blew it up to 35mm.

But Skyman brought another fact up: that these Super 8 versions of Star Wars only range between five, ten, and twenty minutes long.

Instant Sunrise · Post by **Instant Sunrise** » 2006-07-10 05:33pm

How do the colors on it look? Has that print gone pink or green like a lot of the other copies that are still around have?