SUPERB GEMS AMONG THE 16mm CINE FILM

Another hectic day, I finished off loading the remainder of the Super8 cine films to EBay and then left the whole lot to load on to Youtube which is still ongoing. It was the day to get the tree dressed at St Oswalds, three long strings of electric lights formed the bases and then as many baubles as it would bear. Tinsle was thought to be a bit cheap so we held off on that. Getting a decent tree of this size is becoming hard and we are looking for someone with enough land locally to grow them on for a decades time. The Intra Express trips went online in detail yesterday and there are trips to Japan and Ukraine which sound good but of course come at a price and that is in euros which means it's dearer than ever. I have a mini trip to Ukraine which I planned for this year but it never happened a week or 10 days would be just fine and my quickie trip to Japan would visit the most interesting tramways without spending a fortune and getting really fed up with the food, actually they don't even include food so I reckon the whole trip from Germany would be about £5K whereas I'm aiming under £2K.

Anyway at the moment I'm having a trip backwards in time, a wonderful pre war colour film of the Philippines, Macau and Hong Kong, shame the biggest section is on the first but the HK airport shots of Imperial Airways and China national airline at the original airport are priceless. Then came a trip backwards in time again through Scandinavia and a gem with colour footage of Dublin trams via another Pan Am film and this is followed by the Mobilgas 21956 fuel ecenonmy run in the UK , a brilliant colour print with few scratches. I've about 60 16mm reels to work through. They are always interesting as most have a sound track so I can hear it copying in the library while I'm in the office. I've also found time to get the trips to Keighley and Coventry filed away, I can get these on the Smugmug site when the films have finished going on to Youtube which may be over night. We are having a half shoulder of lamb for dinner, I've got a huge glass of pastis , petit bleu de Marseilles and a Chateauneuf De Pape with dinner, this is the life, just thinking of those poor people who have to get up for work on a Monday morning. This week filming will be trucks Tuesday and buses Wed and Thurs, possibly including Yorkshire, Shropshire, West Midlands or Staff, perm any two! I can't upload photos without slowing my uploads to Youtube more so I'll give you a super bundle next time