Intro

I am a collector of 8mm films. These are the cartoons, comedy shorts, and feature film digests that were the only way to watch the things you wanted in the 50s, 60s and 70s. I have about 200 titles, and have decided that I'm going to watch every one of them and post my thoughts on them on this blog. I should be able to get through about 3 or 4 a week.

I have purposely acquired a pretty varied selection, trying to get films from all types of genres. I'm a typical Sci-Fi nerd, so I skew pretty heavy that way, but I have made an effort to get a bunch of styles.

These are all silent and nearly all black and white. I have both super-8 and standard 8, but I try to stick with super-8.

Not all of these films are good. In fact, for most of the Feature film digests, if you haven't seen the full movie, these digests are near incomprehensible. You see, These reels of film last only 8 to 12 Minutes. If it's a cartoon or comedy short, that's not that big a deal, but try cutting War & Peace down to 10 minutes, and if you don't know the story, Good luck figuring out what's what.

I'm going to try and do them in no particular order. I mean, to some extent I will. I won't try watching Conquest of the Planet of the Apes before watching Beneath the Planet of the Apes, I might even make a week of all 5 movies, but I'm not going to burn one genre out before another.

So, I prepare for this endeavor and will be starting tomorrow with Abbott & Costello in "Have Badge, Will Chase".