The Long, Slow Death of Super 8
Posted September 29, 2006 by John Menick
From The Guardian:
An era in amateur film-making is coming to an end. The factory in Lausanne, Switzerland, that processes Europe’s supplies of Kodachrome – grainy, colour-saturated frames of 8mm film that have convinced a generation that their 60s and 70s childhood and adolescence was spent leaping through flowers in a Technicolor haze – is shutting its doors on Saturday. The ritual of shooting a three-minute masterpiece on your Super 8 camera, sending off the film in a little yellow envelope and waiting with barely contained excitement for the ready-to-project reel to drop on to the doormat is over. If you want to get your Kodachrome film developed now, you are going to have to get in touch with an outfit in Kansas called Dwayne’s Photo, and hope for the best.
2 Responses to “The Long, Slow Death of Super 8”
The Guardian painted avery bleak picture of Super 8 – there are in fact more film stocks than ever, more festivals and a growing user base. See http://www.onsuper8.org for more details… Kodachrome may have gone but Super 8 lives on!
Super 8 is stronger than ever!
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