CML Web Discussion 2022-10-12: Super8 Music Videos: Tales From the Inside

Daniel Henriquez moderates a discussion with Super8 filmmakers Amber Navarro, Bayou Bennett, and Daniel Lir, and Pro8mm’s Rhonda and Phil Vigeant.

Some editing to remove dead air and off-topic chit-chat; replace out-of-sync audio; and add additional stills and graphics.

Speakers:

Rhonda and Phil Vigeant, Pro8mm: Camera rentals, sales, and service; film, processing, and scanning, https://www.pro8mm.com
Amber Navarro, https://www.ambarnavarro.com
Bayou Bennett and Daniel Lir, https://www.dreamteamdirectors.com

Music videos with Super8mm content:

Automatic - New Beginning (Ambar Navarro) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muEyle9evDQ
Straight Up - Paula Abdul (1988). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El1kgCqD7Xk
Nike “Revolution i Commercial”. (1987) https://vimeo.com/89811766
Forever You Girl - Paula Abdul ( 1988). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pyxKqdtrH8
Erotica - Madonna (1992) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyhdvRWEWRw
Fade into You. - Mazzy Star. ( first big job shot on color neg 1990) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKY6TZEyrI
All I Want For Christmas Is You - Mariah Carey (1994) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQViqx6GMY
Higher Love - Steve Winwood. (1986). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9olaIio3l8
Goodbye Alice - Jewel (2005). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-V7diWWlVg
Golden Age - Beck (2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6zAT15vaFk
With or Without You - U2 ( 1987). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujNeHIo7oTE
Berkeley Girl, 2010m - Harper Simon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfXv6RBPEdI
Why Don’t You Love Me - Beyoncé (2009). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QczgvUDskk0
Let The Music Do The Talking. - Aerosmith (1980). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dacZjjkUFx8
Two Is Better Than One - Boys Like Girls. (2009). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW3RspM7v9M
I’m Not Running Anymore - John Mellencamp (1998). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbRXhsnY3yo
For The Birch. - Lisa Loeb https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk_AyKMVMsg
In My Feelings - Drake (Aug 2, 2018). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRS_PpOrUZ4
Head Full of Dreams - Cold Play (Dec 4, 2015). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGZMvV9KBp8
Watermelon Sugar - Harry Stlyes (2019). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E07s5ZYygMg
Daisies - Katy Perry (May 15, 2020) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutHKRKBgR0
Mariners Apartment - Lana Del Rey. (Sept 14, 2018). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uFv9Ts7Sdw
Essence. Justin Beiber (2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk1TKei9JZI
Dream Team: We shot this on super 8 film and had it transferred with Rhonda and Phil at Pro8mm: https://www.dreamteamdirectors.com/creative-work-app/monster-party-music-video
Dream Team: Shot by Daniel and transferred by Phil: https://www.dreamteamdirectors.com/creative-work-app/smashbox-campaign-shoot
Dream Team: Shot by Daniel Transferred by Rhonda and Phil's Pro8mm: https://www.dreamteamdirectors.com/creative-work-app/bella-hadid-for-chrome-hearts

Kodak’s still-in-development Super8mm camera https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/page/super-8-camera

Daniel Henriquez’s “non exhaustive” (yet encyclopedic!) list of Super8mm resources, mostly based on information available from Kodak https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/page/labs and directly confirmed, aside from the two facilities in Japan: “All in all, from my point of view, there are today more laboratories processing and scanning super 8mm than in 2009 (13 years ago when I did some research).”

LABORATORY AND SCAN

Pro8mm (Burbank, California) https://www.pro8mm.com/
Spectra Film and Video (North Hollywood, California) https://www.spectrafilmandvideo.com/
Yale Film and Video (Valencia, California) https://www.yalefilmandvideo.com/filmprocessing8mm.php
Colorlab Corp. (Rockville, Maryland) http://colorlab.com/about.html
Cinelab Inc. (New Bedford, Massachusetts) https://www.cinelab.com/about
Andec (Berlin, Germany) www.andecfilm.de
Foto-R3 (Gijón, Spain) https://foto-r3.com/es/
RetroLab Cinema (Málaga, Spain) http://www.retrolab.eu/
Focus Film (Stockholm, Sweden) https://www.focusfilm.se/
Cinelab Film & Digital (Slough, Berkshire, UK) www.cinelab.co.uk
Gauge Film Ltd (Bilston, UK) www.gaugefilm.co.uk
Nano Lab (Daylesford, Victoria, Australia) https://nanolab.com.au/processing.htm
DDREDfilmlab (Beijing, China) http://www.ddredfilmlab.com/8mm.html
Retro Enterprises Co. Ltd (Tokyo, Japan) www.retro8.com (This laboratory had plans to move, status unconfirmed)
Imagica Entertainment Media Services, Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) https://www.imagica-ems.co.jp/en/ (Kodak mentions their Super 8 color negative processing, but there is no information on their webpage; unconfirmed)

LAB ONLY

Dwaynes Photo (Parsons, Kansas) https://www.dwaynesphoto.com/site/products/c/movie-film-processing?product=52509-super-8-movie-film-processing
Niagara Custom Lab (Toronto, Canada) www.niagaracustomlab.com
Silverway Paris (Paris, France) https://silverway-paris.fr/
Super8 Reversal Lab (Den Haag, Netherland) www.super8.nl
John Salim Photographic (Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK) https://www.johnsalimphotographic.co.uk/
Kodak Film Lab London (Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, UK) https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/page/kodak-film-labs
Arco Iris Super 8mm (Buenos Aires, Argentina) http://www.arcoirissuper8.com.ar/shop/categorias.asp?id=42

PROCESSING OF EXPIRED FILM ONLY

Film Rescue International (Indian Head, Canada) www.filmrescue.com

SCAN ONLY

Frame Discreet (Toronto, Ontario) https://www.framediscreet.com/our-story
Kodak Film Lab New York (Long Island City, NY) & Kodak Film Lab Atlanta (Atlanta, GA USA) https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/page/kodak-film-labs
Movette Film Transfer (San Francisco, California) http://www.movettefilm.com

CAMERA REPAIR

Pro8mm (Burbank, California) camera repair and restoration (Beaulieu 4008, Canon 814) https://www.pro8mm.com/
Du-All Camera (Westfield, New Jersey) Beaulieu 4008 service and sales http://www.duallcamera.com/
Björn Andersson, Filmkonsult Svebaco KB (Hasselby, Sweden) worldwide Beaulieu specialist, +46 (0) 8-38 1074, bjorn.andersson@brevet.nu or info@beaulieu-service.com