Another Hanukkah Xmas Morning
Channel: 8mm Restoration
Date: 2021-06-12

ANOTHER HANUKKAH XMAS MORNING

I digitized this 1978 Ektachrome 160 Super8 sound movie with the Wolverine MovieMaker Pro as an MP4 at 1080p.

At the end of the movie, I added some screen captures. They are before and after processing. As you will see, the Ektachrome didn't fare well over time, which wasn't unusual for that film stock. It looked gritty, discolored (blues and or magentas), mushy and it had very little data left to work with. 

If you compare "A Hanukkah Xmas Morning (1977 shot in Kodachrome 40)" with this film, you will immediately notice a huge difference in image quality, with the Kodachrome 40 the clear winner.

So why did I use the Ektachrome? I ask myself the same question. There's that old adage, "Hindsight is..." Anyway, it's better than no film at all. Luckily, the sound track held up fairly well.

It takes a lot of editing to bring back these old 8mm movies so they can look good, somewhat good and not so good. Clearly, some fare better than others. My longtime friend (Johnny) still has his old ELMO Super8 sound projector, mine was long gone. Via his Elmo, he transferred my audio tracks as Wave files. 

All video and audio editing was with DaVinci Resolve 17.