On Fri, 9 Apr 1999 14:50:41 +0200 Ingvald Bergsagel <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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 __________________________________ Leo Enticknap Postgraduate Common Room School of English University of Exeter Queen's Building, The Queen's Drive Exeter Devon EX4 4QH United Kingdom email: [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu