WordPress, bless their hearts, have upgraded the text editor and I’m enraged. I liked the last one. I’ve already found two suboptimal workarounds for things I used to do easily, so WordPress, if you’re reading this, NO! BAD WORDPRESS!
On with the post.
My father, who is chucking stuff out, said “Do you want this?”
“Sure”, I said.
The main thing is of course that my parents have a stonkingly huge amount of stuff and it’s going to need to be sorted and classified and stored at some point, so if they give me stuff now I can absorb that slowly.
It’s a super8 film camera. From the late 60s. These are not rare; you can get them on ebay for about 20 bucks each. This one my parents had before me.
It took me an embarrassingly long while to figure out how to get the little handle to fold back in so I could get it into the box again.
You can buy new film and get it developed; there is a minor indy industry for this sort of technology. I’m considering doing just that. I think one would have to have some form of day time social event though, to get a good use out of it.
I wonder what this means.
The film, when developed, comes in these little flat plastic containers that have a roll out flap.
It’s been years since I’ve seen this. I found film interesting – it only has holes on one side. This is a beach scene. The problem of course with the film I have is that there is only one go at it. So the recordings tend to be furry, blurry, boring, weirdly focused, and a bit boring sometimes.
Of course all of this is pointless if you have nothing to see it on.
I give you….the “ELMO VP-A” Super 8 projector.
Will this be just like threading a sewing machine?
I guess these days lots of footage of kids doing stuff is not unusual, but it was pretty whack in the 70s.
For completeness sake, if anyone out there has an Elmo (not the tickle-me variety) and has no clue how to use it, and needs instruction here is the how to booklet that comes with it.