AGFA – The Agfa laboratory products
This 10-minute Super 8 advertising film with Frank Zander promotes the "AGFA laboratory range" and is a wonderful time capsule. The reel found its way to film friend Peter at…
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When the tape drove the Bolex
Filmmaker and Bolex collector Richard Clement recently showed a rare piece of film technology: the SYNCHROFLEX is a tape recorder that not only works with perforated 16mm tapes, but also…
Super 8: “AGFA – A color picture evolves”.
...let's continue with part 2 of these unknown films that Agfa-Gevaert must have sent to dealers back in the late 70s, or at least planned to do so. This flick…
AGFA – The Hobby Lab
A Super 8 promotional film from Agfa-Gevaert, ca. 1979 This wonderful promotional film for dealers was found by film friend Peter Willems at the film fair in Deidesheim last year,…
Unopened Eastman Transparent film, expired 1903, exposed in 2021
When I wrote here in 2018 about my experiments with Eastman Color Negative 7254 from 1972, I never dreamed what much older types of film I would find, still unexposed.…
Quarz DS8 – die heimlichen Zweiformat-Kameras?
Eine Kamera, die Doppel-8 und Doppel-Super-8-Film belichten kann ? Da fällt einem nur die Elmo C-300 ein, die mit dieser Besonderheit ausgestattet ist, hierfür aber für jedes Filmformat eine spezielles…
Cameras of Dreams: A Book about Prototypes
Jürgen Lossau, author of the highly-saught standard books “Film Projectors” and “Film Cameras 1+2” cannot help it: In a market climate in which the print media is chronically suffering, and…
Memories of Eumig and Wiener Neudorf
Wanted: Small format films from 1950 to 1980 100 years of Eumig – 1919, the company was founded, and with up to 7,000 employees in the 1970s was the largest…
Schmalfilmertreffen Berlin 2015
Die Anonymen Analogiker des Filmvorführerforums trafen sich auch 2015 für ein Wochenende in Kreuzberg, um ihrem Hobby zu frönen. Diesmal verteilte ich sechs S8-Kassetten beladen mit Fomapan R100, die nach…
Klassisch-Analoge Filmprojektion im Palace Cinema
Im Palace Cinema von Lego City -dem neusten Lego-Bausatz meines Sohnes- werden Filme nach wie vor klassisch mit Filmprojektor vorgeführt. Die Größe des Kinos (6 Sitzplätze) und die Anordnung des…