Sweet old 8mm film and Super 8mm film are still available and filmmakers love making movies on film! The equipment is not hard to find, and we'll tell you how to rehabilitate it. Making moving images on film is fun, beautiful and long-lasting. We recommend that when you take out a camera to record electronically, take along a film camera too, for your sake, for the great-grandchildren, for the culture. Learn how to preserve home movie images for the seventh generation. Brodsky & Treadway and the IC8 bring you the Little Film.org pages to educate, network and encourage you, whether you are a fledging filmmaker or beginning a family geneaolgy, tribal history or neighborhood archive.We are glad you came to visit; your movies are important!

Do you know the difference between these types of movie 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 technologies, because for anything you care about, FILM LASTS.

WHAT's this concept "LITTLE FILM?"
LittleFilm is our word to describe motion pictures made by individuals for the love of it. We love the subject being filmed and the act of filmmaking. LittleFilm is used for extraordinary experiments and artistic expression. LittleFilm also means home movies when 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 decades before camcorders were invented. Today, some 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.

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 November 2001 conference with many sessions about our kind of film. For info about the Small Gauge Film Symposium, see AMIA.

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 with wet gate) please click here: Brodsky & Treadway.

The "we" at LittleFilm.org and the IC8 is Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway who 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 to give workshops. 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. If you log in with email, we can send you news and you can share info among yourselves. Your comments are appreciated; please use the Comments Read|Add link at the bottom of most pages.

LittleFilm.org is made possible by Bob Doyle and Derek Doyle at skyBuilders.com who chose IC8 as a Beta site. We run on a powerful Community Computer with skyBuilders.com's open source webWare that is incredibly enabling for interest groups. Thank you Bob Doyle for sharing timeLines webWare and supporting the IC8.