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Originally Posted by rainman
yea sound!!! still some of the best movies are the silent ones like the old charlie chaplin and buster keaton movies.these guys didn't need sound to be funny.  |
I actually have an original Charlie Chaplin movie. Back in the 30s and early 40's, they used to sell 16mm versions of movies for people with projectors. I guess this was the precursor to selling VCRs and DVDs of movies. :-) . My movie is called "Laughing Gas", and shows Charlie invading a dentist's office and flirting with a pretty girl waiting to have a tooth pulled, then gets caught and chased by police, etc. Pretty funny. Still watch it occasionally with the same old 1930's era projector.
I've been trying to figure out some affordable way to convert these things to video. I bought a mirror/screen device that you aim both the projector and a video camera at, but it didn't work very well. So far best results obtained by projecting on a big piece of white card board, and videotaping from that. Slightly oblong view from being off angle a bit, but not too bad.