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...