Can Super 8 Filmmaking Survive?
Before even the youngest filmmakers made their kindergarden debut works on near-professional quality digital cameras, future movie maniacs tried out their skills on sturdy Super 8 cameras. Now the Guardian reports that an era in amateur movie making is coming to an end: Kodak is closing the Lausanne factory that processes 8mm film.
Though three-minute film reels, editing gear, projectors and restored Super 8 cameras sell like mad, fans of the format will have few places to get their work processsed. (A Kansas outfit called Dwayne's Photo can handle 8mm, says the Guardian.)