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Dear fans of old movie film, happily 16mm, 8mm, Super 8 and even 9.5 are alive and well. Bob and Toni, Brodsky & Treadway, have created this site to train, network and encourage you, whether you are a fledging filmmaker, committed media artist or beginning work on a family geneaology, tribal history or neighborhood archive. We are glad to help. YOUR MOVIES ARE IMPORTANT! PRESERVE THOSE GESTURES!
WHAT's this concept called "LITTLE FILM" ?
LittleFilm is Toni's 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 contains extraordinary experiments and artistic expressions. LittleFilm also means home movies: people loving what is going on around them in their family or community and filming to honor and preserve the experience. In the last centruy 8mm film gave people access to moving images five decades before camcorders were invented. Today, some people choose 8mm film because they find it more beautiful, flexible, touchable and permanent than electronic moving image media. We love the filmmakers, the subjects, the act of filmmaking. We believe that the continuity of individuals filming lovingly needs to be showcased and encouraged. We believe that in the motion, a gesture, much cultural detail is revealed.
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For the purposes of identification, these frame are sized correctly relative to each other. The sprocket holes in the early amateur movie gauge, 9.5mm, are in the center between frames. Note that standard 8mm has sprocket holes the same size as 16mm but has twice as many. Super 8 has a larger picture and relatively tiny sprocket holes when compared with 8mm and they are located aside the image, not on the frameline like 16mm or 8mm.
Movie film is still available and filmmakers love using real film! Film equipment is not hard to find. Here we'll try to keep you up to date on where to find it and how to rehabilitate hardware. Making moving images on film is fun, beautiful and long-lasting. We recommend that whenever you videotape or digitally record a person or event, you also take a few movies 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, get the oral histories to help pass on the stories.STORE your FILM COOL and DRY for it is a family heirloom.
FAQs and your ideas We are expanding the FAQs and designing skyTalks about filmmaking, hardware, and preserving home movies. Our filmmaking book is Super 8 in the Video Age. For the family archive or beginner in home movies, please read these basic notes.
Our newsletter "B &T's Little Film Notebook" is updated constantly and distributed in the navigation bars at left. Back issues are available in paper if you send your address and postage ($2 for US, $5 overseas) to IC8, P.O. Box 335, Rowley, MA 01969, USA. Multiples for classroom use are $1/copy.
Log in Please join us in building this space. Membership is free and we promise not to share any personal info. Join or visit as a Guest. A Guest can remain anonymous but has fewer privileges. If you join, you will receive periodic news and updates by email and can have access to member levels. Ideas and comments are appreciated. Thank you for visiting and come again.
Brodsky & Treadway The founders of LittleFilm.org have worked together for 25 years as filmmakers, technicians and advocates for 8mm film. See About Us or details on our transfer work at LittleFilm.comPlease call before shipping film. Brodsky & Treadway, telephone: 978.948.7985, hours: 9-6 EST
Toni Treadway, webmaster. This entire web site and its contents, ©2001, ©2002 Antoinette Treadway and The International Center for 8mm Film, Inc. Excerpted here are the book "Super 8 in the Video Age" ©1982, 1983, 1988, 2001, and the book and various articles © Robert P. Brodsky and Antoinette Treadway ©1978-2002. The terms IC8, B&T's Little Film Notebook, littlefilm.org, and LittleFilm are trademarks of Antoinette Treadway. All rights reserved. The IC8 is a 501(c)3 educational organization supported by filmmakers. Donations appreciated to IC8, P.O. Box 335, Rowley, Massachusetts 01969 USA
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