HISTORY:
My "world" is 'the arts' and more specifically, music, artwork and hand crafted/decorated chinaware's.
I am not a film enthusiast but an associate has asked me to find new owners for THEIR large collection of photographic and film items ... this is one of those items.
While the world of 8mm/Super 8mm is not my area of expertise, I am doing my best to establish the condition of each item that I am listing.
I tend to be quite detailed in my item descriptions, please READ all the details to decide if this item may interest you.
Now, on with the description ...
HELPMATES
Walton
Comedy Classic
Title: Helpmates (1932)
Catalogue # A.319
400 Feet
Black & White
Sound (Mono)
Run time: approximately 17 minutes
Wow! such a trip back in time ... wife informs her husband she is coming home by TELEGRAM (not even a landline telephone is mentioned) and funny as ... some obvious humour and others more obscure, like the Telegram delivery guy knowing what was inside the telegram before it was opened. Stan is called in by Ollie to help clean up the house and chaos ensues ...
USED
CLEAN
Very good
Film stock and the Black reel (Grasso made in Italy) are undamaged, there is a White leader film.
Outer all cardboard two part case is in good condition, clean, no substantial structural damage or graphic damage and no personal writing.
NO writing on the reel and just the front cover mono colour graphics (Black Yellow) with the same colour scheme to the rear, the latter promoting other Walton Super 8 home movies in their catalogue.
TESTING:
Test projector is the ELMO 1200 that I have on hand at the moment.
Film looks to be clean and in good condition, sprocket holes are not damaged.
I only ran the film for the first couple of minutes or so to observe the picture and sound.
The picture is really good, with good contrast.
Sound is good and clean, easy to understand the banter between the duo
SPECIAL NOTE:
I always include a couple of "off screen" snapshots of each reel as it is played ... now my digital camera is antiquated (colour balance? what's that - like I said, this is one OLD camera) and it's limitations are definitely showing up in these sample photographs.
I take the screen shot in very low light levels, the camera flash is turned off (otherwise the picture is flooded with White) and the camera shutter speed is very slow.
This means I have trouble getting sharp photographs, especially when there is movement on the screen and I have noticed that after viewing quite a few films now, that my poor OLD digital camera is tending to cast a "Red" hue over the pictures viewed on the screen, even the Black & White movies (the camera is not so good at Greys/Blacks) - in reality the on-screen picture is not as Red or Pink as recorded in the photographs
In my opinion, after this very brief test, I am happy that the film is as stated on the box and that the film stock appears to be in quite good technical condition.
Anyway, I am very fastidious and careful with these films (I am afterall doing this on behalf of another person) and I have now packed it back into the original cardboard box AND sealed the film within clear plastic - waiting for a Super 8 film enthusiast to "enjoy"!
