Super 8mm Digest Films and Features anyone else here collect them?

I just purchased the complete feature of flash gordon mars attacks the world compiled from the serial of flash gordon's trip to mars.

Other than the Ken Films star wars and empire what other interesting ones are there?

I have heard of the digests of star trek I& II, superman 1978, planet of the apes, alien, raiders of the lost ark etc.

I recently saw a digest for star wars in scope from cineavision with really nice color unfaded sell for 60 bucks on ebay.

Getting these transfered to dvd would be interesting. 

Not sure if this belongs in the preservation or collecting section so i posted it here.

The Mods can always move it to where they deem appropriate.

I bought one of the Star Wars 8mm a few years ago off eBay- I can't remember now why I bought it because I don't have a projector - perhaps at the time I was thinking of buying one.

I have Puggo's DVD of 8mm SW/ESB transfers now, so I guess I don't need the projector anymore, except that it looks like there's a SW trailer spliced onto the beginning of my 8mm, which would be interesting to see.

Hello. I collect 8mm digests and features. I have all of the star wars ones (naturally), including the German digests. I also have the Derran full length scope version of Star Wars. I almost got Empire, but it all fell through at the last minute, goddammit.

In terms of other digests, i can highly reccomend both Close Encounters (if you can find one that holds decent colour), and North By Northwest. The latter is my favourite hitchcock, and lends itself very well to the digest format- it`s really well edited, taking in all the best scenes of the movie, and feeling like a nice little 18 minute film, with all the major plot points in tact. Close Encounters is more of a whistle stop tour. It`s really fun to watch, but you can`t help feeling that you`ve been robbed of most of the film. Oh actually, the Jaws two part 800 foot digest is excellent aswell- the first part breezes quickly through the island based story, with the second part being exclusively the 'Three Men On A Boat' section. This is actually one of the best digests i`ve seen as it is basically all of the wheat and none of the chaff.

Other than that, i seem to have amased a large collection of Disney. An Italian print of Snow White full length, which i have yet to dub into English, along with the official digests of said film. The Brer Rabbit segment of Song Of The South (brilliant), Winnie the Pooh digests and Sleeping Beauty (the Disney feature ones, though, are segments rather than digests). I also have a couple of old school musical digests.

I want want want both Alien and Raiders- these are supposedly excellent, but always seem to sell for a lot whenever i see them come up. There`s also supposedly a load of superman digests that can be edited to form a 1200 foot cutdown of the movie, giving you a one hour version of the movie, i`d like to have those aswell.

I`d be very interested to know if anyone else has any reccomendations, or whether there are any other collecters. Oh, and i`m very jealous of Flash Gordon. Since  i started collecting, that`s one of the ones i`ve wanted. I love those old serials, have done since i was a boy, but have never seen all of the parts come up- it always seems to be the middle segments that come up for sale, and i wouldn`t want to buy them and then not be able to get hold of the beginning and end. Come to think of it, i haven`t bought any super 8 for a while. Maybe it`s time to go shopping again...

If only i had a credit card and 700 bucks, i could buy the scope derann print for return of the jedi i saw on some site. LOL

I am surprised you have star wars in scope from derann since certain people on this board would be jealous, even though it is super 8mm. If i had that myself i think i would see if Puggo could give it a go at a transfer since he did the digests for star wars and empire.

Money is pretty bad for me at the moment or i would buy that reel 6 of star wars on ebay, as well as the reels for star trek 6.

I am in the bidding on the feature for flash gordon conquers the universe on 2 reels but probably won't win.

Somebody already did a wet gate transfer of a 16mm print of flash gordon rocket ship, the only problem is they colorized it. The Serial Sqaudron release is near quality to the image dvds serials which were taken from 35mm studio vault prints of low use.

I would like to find someone interested in transferring my Flash Gordon Mars Attacks the World. Was going to donate it to the serial squadron until i found out it was a low quality niles print. and that the feature exists as a 16mm print much harder to come by.

The hearst Movie features and the serials are already on dvd the ones i was interested in were the hard to find feature versions that are shorter.

The turner classic movies site sells Mars Attacks the world on dvd.  But it appears to be an on demand dvdr title, and i cannot find out the quality also they only take charge cards. 

The feature Space Soldiers Conquer the Universe which was televised in the 50s does not appear to be on dvd and i am under the assumption that is the 2 reeler niles print i am bidding on.

Well i knew the exchange rate was bad, but 700 bucks for Jedi? That just sucks. I thought it was bad enough for it to be 375 pounds. Unfortunately, this is an expensive hobby, hence the fact that i have so many more cutdowns than features. We`re fairly lucky in the UK though, as the hobby seems to be very much alive- not only do we have the two major distributers here (Classic Home Cinema and Derran), we also have a lot of collecter and trader fairs during the course of the year, so bargains are always there to be had. Star Wars is always expensive, though. Mine cost me 420 pounds, and it`s one of the later run prints, so not even the best out there (in fact, i have a sneeking suspicion it was taken from the same print that the UK 1993 thx video and European thx laserdiscs were taken from, the red scartch is present over C3PO on the Tantive 4, and various other tell tale marks present themselves through the course of the movie. It`s not long after this time that Derrans master print broke, and no more copies were made).

And yes, i did make enquiries to Puggo last year, but he was busy with paying clients at the time and understandably declined to do the transfer, saying i could get into contact with him at a later date if i still wanted it done and he could find the spare time, but due to a combination of being both busy or just too lazy at various points of the year, i haven`t done so. I have, however, been trying to build my own telecine machine, but i don`t think the results from it would be as good as a workprinter as it is. Basically, i need to sit down and have a proper look at it and figure a few things out- it needs a new lens, the drive assembly needs work, needs to be more stable in threading the film through, but again it`s finding the time- the last time i did anything with it was back in March. And, of course, any further modifications are going to cost money that i don`t have.

And wow, you really know your Gordon. I`m actually surprised that there aren`t more of the serials available for free download, as i wouldn`t have thought the original material was copyrighted anymore. If you go to www.archive.org and search for Flash Gordon under moving images, they have only the one serial- Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (is this Space Soldiers under a different name? I don`t have enough knowledge about the subject to know), available as one movie or it`s separate chapters. Maybe it`s just a case that decent versions of the others haven`t been located and uploaded yet. I hope you win your auction and that it is the serial you want, though.