Re: Home movies

[P3D Dr. Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

|Very true! I've always thought that video was the worst thing that ever
|happened to home movies. In the days of Super-8 your neighbor's familiy
|films were excruciating but mercifully brief. Now they can go on for hour=
|s!

Man, you guys sure are young. SUPER 8 - I don't hold with that new
fangled stuff - just gimme regular 8 - no kidding - I made a 20 minute
movie (silent naturally) when I was about 14 - it was interesting since
the film magazines were so short that we'd run out in the middle of
a scene. The cameraman (me) would shout "FREEZE" and the actors would
have to remain as motionless as possible so that I could stick another
25' (or was it 50') roll into the camera, wind it up, and resume shooting
to get as seamless a reel change as  possible - we eventually spliced
all the pieces together into one major extravaganza - funny, the Hollywood
press didn't show up, though... being a silent, we could only show it
on nights when all the actors were there to read their parts (and my 
sister's piano teacher was available to play the score).

Unfortunately, not in stereo. I was planning one, but my dad dropped
the new 16mm Bolex into the Gulf of Mexico on a vacation trip and it didn't
work too well after that :-(

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    02:08 PM Tuesday, August 12, 1997
     Texas A & M University - Commerce
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