8mm Home Movie Paris 1950 Copenhagen Holland 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 "Copenhagen Trip Paris Holland." The film is color except for a couple of inserted vignettes that read "Paris July 1950" and "Holland." Scenes include views from a boat in Copenhagen including harbor vessels, followed by waterfront and street scene. The Paris footage includes the base of the Eifel tower and in the tower elevator, a street artist, various buildings, café scenes, a cathedral with scaffolding. There is an airport flight presumably from Paris to Holland, followed by a site with many tulips (Warmond), followed by street scenes of people in traditional Dutch garb. 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 broken off. 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.