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Old 6th Dec 2018, 9:40 pm   #2
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Default Re: Festive vintage technology traditions/memories.

The film show is the memory I remember as well. Early 70's, Christmas day, my uncle would bring the Chinon C300 projector in and set up the screen, extension cable and boxes of carefully edited 8mm silent film. The expensive paraphernalia fascinated me as a child and when one year the lamp blew and he replaced it in front of me with a spare always kept in the carry case, I was hooked.

My dad also shot 8mm but didn't have a projector until we were grown up! So stacks of 50ft reels lay unwatched in the wardrobe until my uncle came. The image of me unwrapping my presents whilst half-blinded by his 1000W cineflood and Sankyo Super CM whirring away will stay with me forever!
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