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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 whenever you videotape a person or event, you also take a few moments on film for the great-grandchildren. Our site will help you learn how to preserve your home movies, shoot new films, record the culture, show the images. Brodsky and Treadway and IC8 bring you this site 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 film? And how and why it's important to safeguard them?
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The links are a brief description of each small gauge tied together like a slide show. These frames are photo-chemical repositories of information and should not be confused with video or other electronic technologies.
Preserve your culture: 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.
FAQs and your ideas We are expanding the FAQs and designing skyTalks about filmmaking, hardware, and preserving home movies. Here are selections from our filmmaking book Super 8 in the Video Age, and for the family film archive or beginning in home movies, see these notes.. We are working with the Small Gauge Film Interest Group of AMIA, the Association of Moving Image Archivists. Their November 2001 conference had many sessions on 8mm film. See AMIA.
Newsletter The navigation bars will give you most of our newsletter. Back issues are available in paper. Please send your address and $2 donations to IC8, P.O. Box 335, Rowley, MA 01969, USA.
Brodsky & Treadway The founders of the IC8, Bob Brodsky and Toni Treadway, have worked for 25 years as advocates for 8mm film, as filmmakers and technicians. If you are need information on our film transfer work, (reversal film only, 8/S8/16, scene by scene with wet gate) please call Toni before shipping film at Brodsky & Treadway, 69 Warehouse, Rowley, Massachusetts, 01969 USA Telephone 978 948 7985, between the hours of 9-6 EST.
The IC8 We created the IC8, the International Center for 8mm Film in 1983 to give workshops and support 8mm filmmaking. 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, you remain anonymous but have fewer privileges. If you join, we can email you news and updates. Your comments are appreciated; please use the Comments Read|Add link at the bottom of most pages.
Thank you for visiting and come again.
Toni Treadway, Webmaster (My partner Brodsky is pictured in the Super 8 family frame above.)
Tel: 978 948 7985, calling hours 9-6 EST.
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.
Super 8 in the Video Age, copyright 1982, 1983, 1988, 2001 and articles copyright 1978-2001 by Robert P. Brodsky and Antoinette Treadway. IC8, B&T's Little Film Notebook, littlefilm, LittleFilm are trademarks of Antoinette Treadway. This entire web site and its contents, copyright 2001, The International Center for 8mm Film, Inc. All rights reserved. The IC8 is a 501(c)3 educational organization supported by filmmakers. Donations to IC8, P.O. Box 335, Rowley, Massachusetts 01969 USA
Archived at: http://www.littlefilm.org/Contents.20011030122107.html
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