Woody Woodpecker 8mm "

[cartoonfan]

Hi. If anyone is interested, I have a Woody Woodpecker cartoon, "What's Sweepin' on 8mm "Headline edition" reel. It was made by Castle Films and it looks to be in great condition. Unfortunately, I don't have a player to test it on, so I don't know if it has sound or color. Is there an easy way to tell?

Anyway, I'd like to trade it for some Woody cartoons, either on DVD or VHS. If interested, send me a PM and I'll send a want list. I'll consider other offers, if you have some unique cartoons.

[Barb Herholzer]

Hi. If anyone is interested, I have a Woody Woodpecker cartoon, "What's Sweepin' on 8mm "Headline edition" reel. It was made by Castle Films and it looks to be in great condition. Unfortunately, I don't have a player to test it on, so I don't know if it has sound or color. Is there an easy way to tell?

Anyway, I'd like to trade it for some Woody cartoons, either on DVD or VHS. If interested, send me a PM and I'll send a want list. I'll consider other offers, if you have some unique cartoons.
Unspool some of the film and hold it up in front of a light. You should be able to tell if the film is color or B/W. If there's a thin brown stripe running along the edge of the film (actually, both edges), then it's a magnetic sound print.

[cartoonfan]

Based on your advice, it seems to be a silent, black & white film. No brown stripe on either side.

[Mark J]

They used to give those things away when you bought an 8mm projector. I have one somewhere - it's bizarre seeing a color sound cartoon turned into a b&w silent toon with some Castle title cards.

[Tom Stathes]

Bizarre to us, yes, but common home movie fare of the 40s ;)

[Mark J]

Bizarre to us, yes, but common home movie fare of the 40s ;)
and the 1950's (and into the 1960's).

[captchucky]

Hey! That's what I originally collected! ..Black and white silent Walter Lantz cartoons. In the 60's, those were easily the best things that were generally available. I never found a store that had the original 8mm a.a.p. Warners cartoons in 8mm silent, but I really wanted those!

[Sogturtle]

Hey! That's what I originally collected! ..Black and white silent Walter Lantz cartoons. In the 60's, those were easily the best things that were generally available. I never found a store that had the original 8mm a.a.p. Warners cartoons in 8mm silent, but I really wanted those!

Captchucky~

Woolco used to carry a small selection of A.A.P. Warners cartoons in silent Super 8mm "full-edition" and "headline" editions. Well ALMOST what you wanted back then;). Some others had been made and sold earlier SOMEWHERE (don't know where).

And if you'd gone to the Far East:eek: in the mid-'70's then Super 8mm color SOUND prints were available there with a lot of the post-Sept. '48 Warner toons represented (all complete editions).

[Spike]

I have a black and white silent aap print of THE UNRULY HARE with subtitles superimposed at the bottom of the screen..

[captchucky]

Captchucky~

Woolco used to carry a small selection of A.A.P. Warners cartoons in silent Super 8mm "full-edition" and "headline" editions. Well ALMOST what you wanted back then;). Some others had been made and sold earlier SOMEWHERE (don't know where).

And if you'd gone to the Far East:eek: in the mid-'70's then Super 8mm color SOUND prints were available there with a lot of the post-Sept. '48 Warner toons represented (all complete editions).

Sogturtle,

I have some odd films that I picked up in the 70's that were very nice, from a company called Techno-films. They had foreign credits, but were otherwise good english language prints in color, Super-8 sound. The only pre-1948 cartoon that they sold (as far as I know) was "Bugs Bunny gets the Boid."

I also have a few color-sound 8-mm prints from the original a.a.p. group. Those are 100 ft. editions running about 5 minutes. They included "Toy Trouble" and "Brave Little Bat."