8mm Home Movie London 1955 Barcelona Majorca, Madrid, Conlan

This sale is for 8mm home movie film on a 5-inch film reel in an steel canister. The label on the canister reads "Barcelona Madrid Mallorca London 1955." The film is color. Scenes include meeting family members in a rural area, visiting a cemetery site and church, moving on to London, Piccadilly Circus, London street scenes, a museum visit with Egyptian items, then on to Barcelona, a whole segment on bullfights, followed by scenes likely of Madrid, them street scenes of Majorca, parade footage, and a royal palace.. The film was made by William Henry Conlan.

The film is average home movie quality in terms of subjects and framing, and includes occasional helpful views of place signs. Some scenes are quite brief. The leader is intact. One of the old splices broke during playback and was imperfectly taped back together. Another splice was poorly done and the film had to be advanced around it. Needs some cleaning. The images shown here were screen captures from a video recorded of the film from a poorly focused projector on a white board, so the film quality is much better than the video grabs shown here. A five-inch reel can hold 200 feet, or about 12 to 14 minutes of play time. Old 8 mm movies can now be scanned digitally frame by frame at a reasonable cost and excellent image quality, so this reel can provide some nice 1950's stock movie footage of these places and subject matters.