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Leo Enticknap <[log in to unmask]>
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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999 14:50:41 +0200 Ingvald Bergsagel
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> Try sending your cartridge to "Kodak Lab" and one of the following adresses:

> UK: P.O. Box 2, Deer Park Road, Wimbeldon, London SW19 3UG

My parents live in Deer Park Road and the last time I was there (February) the
small office block (which must just have been a forwarding address - it could
not possibly be a processing lab) that previously had a Kodak banner on the
front had been knocked down and replaced by a garage.  So you might try taking
a broken-down car there, but I wouldn't rate your chances with 8mm film.

Try looking under 'laboratories' in the 1999 BFI handbook.  Hendersons in
Norwood, South London, used to do black-and-white super-8 but not colour.
Another point is that you need to establish whether you are dealing with
standard-8mm or super-8mm.  Standard 8 is literally double-perf 16mm split down
the middle, i.e. the perforations occupy almost half the width of the film.
Super-8mm has smaller perforations which are proportionally the same size as
those on single-perf 16mm.  Other than possibly very specialised archival lab
services, I'd be astonished if anyone still handles standard 8 on a normal
commercial basis (it was virtually obsolete by the early 1970s).

In this country super-8 projectors are reasonably easy to come by at
second-hand photography shops, collectors fairs and such places, although
condition varies.  The main reason for this is that there are still a small
number of enthusiastic amateurs who collect feature films on super-8, and
indeed one company remains - Derann Film Services of, I think, Huddersfield -
which still acquires domestic rights to feature films and sells super-8 copies
of them for around 300 UK pounds a print.

L
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Leo Enticknap
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School of English
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