Oddity Archive: Episode 248 - 8mm (& Super 8) Souvenir Films
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If anything, your compositions gave life to all this footage. Much, MUCH more than most of the companies that put them out clearly did.
Also, "Paris lives up to the name of Gay Paree." Shows depressed looking people smoking and drinking.
When I worked at Knott's Berry Farm in the late 1980's/early 1990's there was a series of VHS tapes (from different production companies) of days spent at Knott's.
Interesting stuff about Castle Films. In the 1940’s did put out cartoons including the Walter Lantz cartoons and the ComiColor cartoons by Ub Iwerks, and a handful of Christmas shorts. I have all of them on 8mm, and the only “World Parade” series I have is about a tour of New York City before the pre-9/11 twin towers and everything didn’t exist at the time.
On top of that, Castle Films made Public Domain Cartoon Shorts in the 1930s based on Popular Nursery Rhymes!czcams.com/video/FkfWps49r78/video.html
I have the Tour of NYC too. In 8mm color & sound :)
The music you picked for Bruges felt like Mark Knopfler and Dick Dale doing a collab in the world of Tintin.
Came here for the films, stayed for the music!
The TWA film was great really showed the Irish countryside in the order that one would travel through it from the airport in County Mead. I think the View Master souvenir discs were taken from the 8 mm souvenir films. The Flemish film in at the end was filmed at the world famous at the time expo films studio 58 they produced travel films concentrating on the world Fair and other global expositions.
that sea world mascot reveal is gonna happily haunt my life forever now holy shit
your guitar skills have come along quite nicely.
Ben, great show - my aunt and uncle had several of these vacation films from their trips to Hawaii and Mexico - they wereall kinds of fun when I was a kid, now, not so much!! Love the music backgrounds you chose too - great stuff! - TC
I, personally, liked all of your backing music quite a lot. It definitely lent a "mood" to each film or set of clips. Don't run yourself down so much, Ben, you're quite a talented dude.
I have been collecting these films since 1976 when I was 12 years old. I now have a massive collection of them !! :)
I think I’ve figured out the brand title of the film on Bruges. In 1958, there was a World’s Fair held in Brussels. Maybe the company that released the film as part of a series on Belgian cities for Expo visitors to purchase as the visited Belgium before or after the Expo. So I’m guessing that your guess that the film was made in the mid to late 1950s is pretty close t spot on.
I loved the music selection starting at 11:35, gives the Las Vegas footage a really foreboding feel.
Interesting moods set y your music. The zoo footage took on a melancholy tone, a look at a vanished place. But the Sea World and Vegas seemed like hidden camera mondo movie stuff.
On that Paris film (the segment about 23 minutes in), my film scanner (same one The Archive has, but under a different name) does the same thing. More commonly with dark scenes, but sometimes the camera just gets out of sync with the film actually moving through the thing.
Now, given the context of the films I was running through my scanner (pulling clips that were historically significant for public exhibition), I ended up settling for manually running the films through a flatbed film scanner (I should have charged hourly) because I was tasked with scanning these films for a historical organization and they wanted something by whatever means necessary, but, I think that bouncy motion is just down to the limitations of the scanner’s hardware being so heavily integrated (even the manufacturer-or, cobbler if you will-could change absolutely nothing because the manufacturer of the parts used integrated much of the basic functionality into the modules that were cobbled together).
@14:49; that guy was still performing in Vegas when I moved there in 2007!
Also, your music fits the opening of the Hawaii film.
The gay Paree: smoke and drink until you feel miserable. Such souvenirs.
6:22 They’re marked Fully Guaranteed, Ben. You might have a bit of fun trying to get some San Diego Zoo employee to replace it.
Somehow I fear that reel is more interesting than the San Diego Zoo these days.
I have done music for many years , and can relate to Ben's use of different instrument textures, and even the syles of melody he's choosing, I did this for years when there was no you tube and was told I made weird noise. I geuss I still do. Great Music Ben. kids dogs birds planes is one of mine, it's on here.
A REAL CHILL Eipisode, gd tunes Benn
The music for the Sea World movie was a perfect fit, Ben. So was the Ireland movie.
I'm not surprised the Ireland video wasn't a flyover travelogue. I recently traveled to Norway and didn't get to see the country I'm in love with so much from the sky until we were touching down in Oslo. We were flying at 40,000 feet so it was a bit of a disappointment I couldn't actually see Bergen until I had arrived there a week later.
Franlab just posted one of these, I had never heard of them and now this episode comes out the next day. Fantastic!
If you ever had an old View Master you probably have seen them on the view master discs.
I’ve actually been to a lot of the locations of the films in your collection (although several decades later), like the San Diego zoo & Sea World. The last one looks like it may have been filmed at the Polynesian cultural center in Oahu, HI. They do big dancing shows there like in the film.
That Seaworld track is 🔥
My comment is not here. What I said was the music used helped me get through a really bad day. Sounded like Leo Kottke on the all acoustic tracks. Cannot wait to see these on your bandcamp page. Great job.
The films themselves are a glmpse into the past that is mostly lost. At least you have them saved now. Now try to get a little rest.
Yeah, "Great Drain Robbery" was (admittedly) a nod to Leo. Don't think I'll ever be even 1% the guitarist that he is though.
Happy Oddity Thursday with another excitement to start my Thursday morning.
Being from Vegas this episode was appreciated
Your audience seems to like your music. So do I.
The brügge real kicks butt!
This is the Halloween episode: It Came From the Thrift Store
If anyone still has those 8mm scenic films, it would be wise to have them converted to DVD. 💿
I do :)
Highlight of the video @ 25:23 - *I'm real excited to be here*
When you said "another 30 years down the road, that would be the least of my concerns," I initially thought you were talking about your personal mortality and/or health, rather than vinegar syndrome. (Sounds that way to a viewer in his 50s with a bunch of health problems.)
Guess it works either way, doesn't it?
I figured Ben meant we were all going to die in a nuclear war or something at first myself.
Trying to keep some semblance of optimistic.
Remember to duck and cover.
Back in 2017, he did a Video on Telecine Film Transfer that Elaborated what "Vinegar Syndrome" is. Its the 2017 Halloween Special.
Ah Sea World, a place infamous for abusing orcas and I'm sure other animals.
No, the orcas were abusing _them._
This is from the "Once upon a time" days either before the abuse was known about, or even happening at all.
@@IAmNotAFunguy Exactly. Blair/Illuminaughtii did a Video on it several months ago talking about how nobody in the Early 70s knew that there was abuse going on and that people were extremely Oblivious to it.
Sergiu Mendis would be a little closer to the brazilian pronunciation of Sergio Mendes
8:05 Oh, they used the cheaper Eastmancolor instead of Kodachrome for those. I hope the Ektachrome of today I use for filming doesn’t fade like the Ektachrome of the 60s…
I think kodachrome is a color reversal film intended directly from camera to projection, not duplication from a camera negative like these souvenir films.
@@telocho so the originals are Kodachrome and the dupes are Eastmancolor/ektachrome?
SeaWorld Forever!
I hate when my souvenir films turn out to be pornography....But not as much as when my pornography turns out to be souvenir films!
Souvenir films? That’s a first
I liked your music, it would be bland with out it.