There’s a certain mystique about old home movies and 8mm film; whether it’s footage from a family gathering from 40 years ago or a stop-motion animation you made when you were 12, there’s an immediacy ...

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Hi everyone ! This is a rare movie projector produced by the French company Wamoo toys around 1950. These toys were very popular in Europe, even if i didn't know that brand. This is my very first 8mm ...

I recently came into 15 reels of old family films in 8mm and Super8. I'd like to convert them to an HD format for editing. My equipment is a projection screen and a Canon 7D, the latter with ...

Remember we told you that Nikon’s Coolpix S1000pj was the “the first that we know of in a consumer camera”. We were wrong. Way back in 1959 you could buy the Zoom Cine-Twin, a honking great 8mm film ...

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