What are these?

[THT]

Ive recently been given a shed load of old photography stuff

What are these please?
Theres a lot of the smaller one - but only 1 larger one - Pen added for size reference....

The one titled "The Maid" i might want to take a closer look at

 

[--Mike--]

Looks like cine film to me. You'll need a cine projector and a blank reel to get it to play.

 

[THT]

do they come in different sizes then?

 

[--Mike--]

I'm not too hot on the subject, but I think they should be all the same width of film, but you get different lengths to have longer playback time.

You'll probably find someone local in the yellow pages who can convert it to dvd which would be less hassle.

 

[Snapshot]

Cine film came in several sizes. 8mm was commonest for home users but there were at least three different versions of it; there was also a 9.5mm format but it was pretty rare. 16mm was used by pro's in the field and films were (may still be?) shot on 35mm plus 70mm was used for really wide-screen films. 35mm cine film was the original basis of the film for 35mm cameras.

My mother used to shoot cine film and one of the reasons I moved out was that I could stop editing her rubbishy results......

As already suggested, find someone who can convert them to DVD.

 

[THT]

Ah ok - think i get it - size = width of film, rather than size of spool.

Thanks for your help - i think i know someone with an 8mm cine projector....

 

[midville]

Be interesting to see whats on the film, you will have to let us know if that's cool?

 

[THT]

pretty sure at least one of them is risque!

 

[WillyNelson]

8mm vintage smut

Hold it up to the light and you should be able to see, albeit very small.

 

[Johnny|lucidcomposure]

Looks like you have some Super 8 film there.

 

[THT]

for those who saw the original pics (id taken them down since)

Ive been through about 10 of these today mostly of holiday
some of 1970s Switzerland and 2 were a little risque (the maid and late but lovely)
Oh and also one cartoon!