A self-produced feature film. The main character, an 8mm filmmaker, has a bronze statue of the goddess of 8mm movies in his home, and he always prays before filming, and when editing, he places it ...

SILVER SPRING, Md. (7News) — What started as a dusty box in a Maryland basement has now made its way to Hollywood — and into the opening moments of a new documentary about John Candy. Jim Lieberman of ...

After my mother died, I found a dusty tote bag in my parents’ cellar, stuffed with reels of film from our growing-up years. The film had been converted to digital form long ago, and I’m not even sure ...

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A few years ago, I bought an 8 mm home movie camera in a second hand store. I did a teardown on it here and pulled out for your pleasure those parts of it which I considered interesting. My vague plan ...

Motion picture film. The standard 8mm film was launched in 1932 by Eastman Kodak, providing a more affordable format than Kodak's 16mm film, which debuted in 1923. In 1965, Super 8 came out with a ...