16mm Film

Archive for August, 2010

A while back we had our old 16mm films digitized by a company in Georgia. The results were impressive. Scenes include Devil’s Hopyard and other places near West Milan, New Hampshire.

When one asks a child on the streets of Haiti “What’s up?” They say “Bagay Dwol,” (pronounced: BAG-AY-DWOLL) which means “Strange Things” in Creole. It is this perspective that makes the staggering amount of homeless children in Haiti resilient, although they are almost forgotten by their own government and internationally. “Strange Things” is an honest portrait of Haiti through the eyes of “street boys,” and after the wake of recent political turbulence. The film takes place in the Northern city of Cap-Haitian where the land is lush and where the history runs deep. It is a landscape of contrasts, and the site where Haiti won its Independence in 1804. Shot on Super-16mm film, super 8, underwater photography, and DV, “Strange Things” documents a Haiti that is virtually unknown.

www.webalice.it German kid soldiers bound to die. April 1945. German soldiers, mostly teens, on the Oder front, 60 Km from Berlin, moments before the attack of the Red Army (dead Russian soldiers are also shown). Not even the young cameraman, Gerarth Garms, did survive… 16mm Agfacolor film. Soundtrack “Tainted Blood” re-mixed by Vincent Romano,added (Demo Only) in 2009 by ROMANO-ARCHIVES. Editing by ROMANO-ARCHIVES. “SUBSCRIBING to this Channel is a MUST for researchers and RARE HISTORICAL FOOTAGE fans!!!” V. Romano This is a clip from the ROMANO-ARCHIVES’ new website “Unknown World War 2 in Color”-”WW2 Europe” section. At: www.webalice.it Visit also: romanoarchives.altervista.org A better quality silent version of this clip is available. Hi-Res videos from our Collections are available on DVD, CD or directly in your inbox. Clips and movies can also be downloaded from our servers using a PW or uploaded by us to your FTP.

One Night Stand/ Horror/ Doug Preston a man out to find someone new, gets more than he ever bargained for. AN LA JONES FILM. It’s my first film. Shot on a K3 16mm camera. Enjoy the violence! Music by the greatest band ever TOOL!!!!!!!!!!!

www.webalice.it 1939. Hannover Cavalry School. Amateur Agfacolor 16mm film. Soundtrack performed by Adhesion (Tainted Blood)added (Demo Only) in 2008 by ROMANO-ARCHIVES. Editing by ROMANO-ARCHIVES. “SUBSCRIBING to this Channel is a MUST for researchers and RARE HISTORICAL FOOTAGE fans!!!” V. Romano This is a clip from the ROMANO-ARCHIVES’ new website “Unknown World War 2 in Color”-”The Pre-War Years” section. At: www.webalice.it Visit also: romanoarchives.altervista.org A better quality silent version of this complete film is available. Hi-Res videos from our Collections are available on DVD, CD or directly in your inbox. Clips and movies can also be downloaded from our servers using a PW or uploaded by us to your FTP.

One of my first 16mm films, a bit of fun to get to grips with the medium.

My Best Friend’s Birthday (1987) is an unfinished black and white independent film by Craig Hamann and Quentin Tarantino, while they were working at the now shuttered Video Archives in Manhattan Beach, California. The project started in 1984, when Hamann wrote a short 30-40 page script about a young man who continually tries to do something nice for his friend’s birthday, only to have his efforts backfire. Tarantino became attached to the project as co-writer and director, and he and Hamann expanded the short script into an 80 page script. On an estimated budget of $5000, they shot the film on 16mm over the course of the next four years. Hamann and Tarantino starred in the film, along with several video store and acting class buddies, and worked on the crew, which included fellow Video Archives employees Rand Vossler and Roger Avary. The film is the most overtly comic that Tarantino has made. Tarantino himself referred to it as like a “Jerry Lewis movie”. The original cut was about 70 minutes long but due to a fire only 36 minutes of the film survived. The 36 minute cut has been shown at several film festivals. It has never been officially released.