8MM
In a Private Collection
With fond memories as a child, my father would get all the family rounded up in the living room, set the screen up and the wunderkind machine, ‘the projector’, in place. He would thread the film, hopefully the first time (at times frustrated and cursing quietly), adjust the lens, moving the card table that held the machine to the screen and viola!!! …There we all were on the screen. There was no sound, but we didn’t care because we didn’t know any better. This was 20th century technology in our living room! We kids would laugh and point at our antics and of course be somewhat embarrassed that we were captured in action or weren’t captured enough compared to our siblings. 8mm is in honor of all 1950/1960 families who ushered in a new generation of capturing an era on small, many times fragile machines and breakable 8mm film.
