Super 8 Magazine
SUPER 8 magazine numéro 12
Author(s) Jurgen Lossau
Format magazine
Year 2024
Language(s) English, German
Pages 70 pages
Description
Super 8 Competition
Enter our film competition on the theme of WINTER. We're offering 20 cartridges of the new Wolfen Color 400 Super 8 film with development and digitization. The twenty participants will then be able to shoot their film. A jury will select the three winners from the digitizations received. First prize is a freshly overhauled Agfa Movexoom 10 mos electronic.
News: new Super 8 films from Germany
Super 8 magazine presents the first results of the new Wolfen Color 400 color negative film. The new LossauColor 200D Single-8 film is also featured. Other news: innovative two-part reels from van Eck (Netherlands) and video transfers with your own projector via smartphone.
Zach Moore: the film of his life
He started in 2019 and should finish in 2025. But a trailer on YouTube recently whetted our appetite for this brilliant 90-minute filmed portrait of New Yorkers. Zach Moore meticulously planned this film and shot it with three cameras – in Super 8.
Zombies in Super 8
They're probably the last of their kind. Ralf Möllenhoff and his RIP – Independent team have been making horror films for 35 years. At a time when stories are rarely told with small-format film, their latest production "KITO – Zombies and Cannibals" is a true exception. Just thinking about it gives us goosebumps!
Eumig Nautica: a camera learns to dive
Until the mid-1970s, there was no waterproof and submersible film camera. Gerhard Pahr, who participated in the development of the Eumig Nautica from 1975, discusses the solutions implemented to create an underwater camera during a conference in Wiener Neudorf (Austria).
Argentina, freedom and Super 8
Pablo César recalls the time when he made amateur films in his native country. He discusses the clubs and organizations that played an extremely important role in the freedom movement in Argentina. For him, Super 8 was not just a means of individual protest.
Heinz Thiele: making 8mm audible
In 1958, Heinz Thiele developed the first 8mm sound film projector for Zeiss Ikon in Kiel (Germany), the Moviton. This graduate engineer worked on speakers, amplifiers, cameras and projectors. Movilux, Moviphon, Movivox: he developed many devices up to their commercialization.