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8 Days Of SUPER 8 Giveaway
WAMG has started the countdown! With SUPER 8 opening on Friday, the new sci-fy thriler by director J.J. Abrams and producer Steven Spielberg, hits theaters… we are doing 8 days of giveaways!
Every day, we will pick one winner from the qualifying contestants below. Winner will receive a SUPER 8 PRIZE PACK, consisting of a t-shirt, mini poster and a sticker.
OFFICIAL RULES:
1. YOU MUST BE A U.S. RESIDENT WITH A U.S. SHIPPING ADDRESS.
2. FILL OUT YOUR NAME AND E-MAIL ADDRESS BELOW. REAL FIRST NAME REQUIRED.
3.ANSWER WITH A RANDOM FACT ABOUT SUPER 8 FILMS. COULD BE A FACT ABOUT A FILM SHOT IN SUPER 8, COULD BE A FACT ABOUT THE PROCESS… ONLY ORIGINAL ANSWERS WILL COUNT, SO NO STEALING ANSWERS FROM PREVIOUS ENTRIES! ONE ENTRY PER PERSON!
WINNERS WILL BE CHOSEN THROUGH A RANDOM DRAWING OF QUALIFYING CONTESTANTS. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. PASSES WILL NOT BE SUBSTITUTED OR EXCHANGED.
SYNOPSIS:
In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.
Super 8 is not a Cloverfield sequel as some may think.
Super 8 film was developed by the Eastman Kodak company during the Great Depression and released on the market in 1932 to create a home movie format that was less expensive than 16 mm.
Correction, it was launched in 1965.
The original Super 8 film release was a silent system only, but in 1973 a sound on film version was released.
Oliver Stone has used Super 8 several times in his more recent films, such as The Doors, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, U Turn, and JFK where his director of photography Robert Richardson employed it to evoke a period or to give a different look to scenes.
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The Super 8 plastic cartridge is probably the fastest loading film system ever developed as it can be loaded into the Super 8 camera in less than two seconds without the need to directly thread or even touch the film.
JJ Abrams’ friend and “Lucky Charm” Greg Grunberg has a very small role in Super 8.
Kodak has developed new Super 8 mm flim, making it possible to film a high quality movie without a digital camera. There may be a resurgance of independent films shot on Super 8 cameras because it is so inexpensive.
Super 8 film is 8mm wide just like regular 8mm film but the perforations are smaller so the exposed area is larger.
The famous “Zapruder film” was shot on Super 8 film on November 22, 1963.
i thought it was regular 8mm.
before super 8 there was regular 8. you get 8 mm film by cutting 16 mm film in half.
Super 8 is not a prequel or sequel to cloverfield but people in the town of Weirton,West Virgina did when tanks came rolling through their local park.
Super 8 changed my life, now I can’t go near any trains leaving Area 51 without having a panic attack.
Film was once the prevalent form of taking home movies. 8mm film and then Super8 film were the standards. Video tape then took over. The “look” of film holds a special place for many enthusiasts, but these days its very difficult to purchase film and even more difficult (and expensive!) to get it developed.
you could easily buy the film on eBay as for developing it….
At 18 frames per second, a 50-foot roll of Super 8 film lasts approximately 3 minutes and 20 seconds of continuous filming.
8mm and Super 8 film have more resolution and detail than today’s DVDs, 16mm film has more resolution and detail than HD video.
Starting in 1971, In-flight movies (previously 16 mm) were shown in Super 8 format until video distribution became the norm!
The viral campaign for Super 8 is ‘Rocket Poppeteers’. A ’50s era Popsicle brand.
When released in 1965, Super-8 film was quickly adopted by the amateur film-maker as it featured a better quality image and was easier to use. This was due to a cartridge-loading system which did not require re-loading (and re-threading) halfway through.
This is another movie with aliens in it just like the Indiana Jones 4.
Kodak Super 8 mm cartridges cannot be reloaded. However, a re-loadable cartridge was manufactured in the Soviet Union.
When I was in film school the first format we ever shot on was Super 8… and it’s still my favorite :)
The Super 8 film type was used in several of Oliver Stone’s films to my knowledge..the one I remember the most is JFK. :)
Instant 8mm film released in 1977 by Polaroid.
When director Peter Jackson was a child, he filmed his own stop-motion version of King Kong with action figures and a Super 8 camera. In 2005, he released the official live-action Hollywood remake (albeit digitally).
Producer Steven Spielberg spent his childhood making 8mm films, and then J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves were called by then Spielberg’s assistant Kathleen Kennedy to repair the films Steven had done.
The Film has two sides emulsion and base.The emulsion has that stuff starts to deteriorate.
i saw this movie on Saturday and it was amazing everyone should go see super 8
A number of Experimental filmmakers continue to work extensively in the format and festivals such as the Images Festival (Toronto), the Media City Film Festival (Windsor, ONT), and TIE (based in Colorado) regularly project Super 8 films as part of their programming.
The PBS series Globe Trekker uses Super 8 in a portion of every episode, for its “particular look” and because they can catch impromptu scenes without waiting for a video camera to power up.
i`ve noticed people have been bidding on Super 8 cameras on eBay hmm m wonder why?
Super 8 film should be stored wound on a reel. Film reels often come in 50′ or even 400′ sizes. Some reels are plastic, while the larger reels are often metal and come in metal film canisters. It is easier to archive many smaller reels on one larger reel after splicing the smaller reels together.
I would really like to see this movie! K
The movie “Super 8″ was shot on film to have the look and feel of a 70s movie.
Starting in 1971,In-flight movies (previously 16 mm) were shown in Super 8 format until video distribution became the norm. The films were printed with an optical sound track (amateur films use magnetic sound), and spooled into proprietary cassettes that often held a whole 2-hour movie.
Its about the kids filming with a 8 mm camera and what they were able to capture with that lens :) But of course to know if I am corrent I will have to go and see it. K
Abrams sold the idea of Super 8 to Spielberg by having it be a hybrid project, i.e. it originated with two separate ideas, the first being about kids enjoying filming with a Super 8 and how the view the world and the second being spooky 1970s movie about how the government anxiously dealt with Area 51.
He said this mvie was a do it yourself approach …. “It was about trying to figure out how to use whatever was in your garage, because when you were a kid, you had almost no access to anything.
The kid actors in this movie are shooting their super 8 film. The kids have their film processed at a photo store on Main Street, Weirton, WV aka Lillian, Ohio.
Ryder had a crush on Elle Fanning and followed her around the set.
Super 8 was a precuror to beta cassette movies.
It IS possible to make a Super 8 projector out of LEGOS!
Proof: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/super-8-movie-projector-made-from-lego-actually-works
If that isn’t one of the coolest things ever, I don’t know what is!
The Zapruder film of the JFK assassination was shot on a Bell and Howell double 8 camera, at about the time of the introduction of Super 8, which created a ubiquitous format for affordable home movies. The handy cams of the day.
J.J. Abrams also worked on the TV show LOST.
The hole in the center of a reel of Regular 8 is smaller than the hole in the center of a Super 8 reel. One cannot fit their finger in the center hole of a Regular 8 reel whereas, usually, one can in a Super 8 reel.
Famous director Guillermo del Toro’s first started shooting in Super 8 when he was 8 years old. When he was 10, he did a production with big fight scenes and some explosions when he got his Planet of the Apes figures. He still has a few of his films to this day. Some images are included in the Lionsgate release of Cronos.
so great ,wow,oh yeah,thanks
it is directed by JJ Abrams