Do you know the difference between these types of film? And how and why it's important to safeguard them?

9.5mm	16mm	8mm	Super 8

These frames are photo-chemical repositories of information and should not be confused with video and other newer tehcnologies, nor left behind.

WHAT's this concept "LITTLE FILM?"
LittleFilm is our word to describe motion pictures made by individuals for the love of it. They love the subject being filmed and the act of filmmaking. LittleFilm is used for extraordinary experiments and artistic expression. LittleFilm also means home movies because people love what is going on around them in their family or community and want to honor and preserve the experience. 8mm film was the people's access to moving images. Even today, people choose 8mm film because they find it more beautiful, flexible, touchable and permanent than newer moving image media. We love the filmmakers, the subjects, the act of filmmaking. We believe that the continuity of individuals filming needs to be showcased and encouraged.

Brodsky and Treadway is the "we" at the IC8; Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway have worked together for 25 years as advocates for 8mm film and filmmakers. We founded the IC8, the International Center for 8mm Film in 1983. We want our filmmaker and archive friends to join us in building this space, so membership is free and we promise not to share any personal info. Among some of the text and talks you will find questions and surveys to help us build the community and tell others about it. Join the group here or visit as a Guest. If you visit as a Guest, anonymously, you will have fewer privileges and less access. If you log in with your email, we can send you news and members can share info among yourselves. Your comments are appreciated and can be made or read by using the Comments Read|Add link at the bottom of most pages.

We are building links to FAQs and little talks about filmmaking, hardware, and preserving home movies. Meanwhile, here are selections from our filmmaking manual Super 8 in the Video Age, and a beginning notes for filmmaking. We are working with the Small Gauge Task Force of AMIA, the Association of Moving Image Archivists on their upcoming conference with many sessions about our kind of film. Small Gauge Film Symposium

The navigation bars links will give you most of our newsletter. The back issues are available in paper by sending your mailing address (and donations if you can) by classic mail to IC8, P.O. Box 335, Rowley, MA 01969, USA. If you are need information on our film transfer work, (reversal film, scene by scene only) please visit our sister site Brodsky & Treadway. Thank you for visiting and come again.

Toni Treadway, Webmaster
(Webmaster Treadway. See Brodsky in the Super 8 family frame above.)

The LittleFilm.org site is made possible by Bob Doyle and his team at skyBuilders.com who chose IC8 as a Beta site. When you log in, you are under no obligation to join but we run on a powerful Community Computer with open source webWare that is incredibly enabling for interest groups. Thank you Bob Doyle for sharing timeLines webWare and supporting the IC8.