Super 8 Film Cutting And Editing
| Field | Amateur home movies |
| Went Obsolete | Late 1980s |
| Made Obsolete By | Video Cameras |
| Knowledge Assumed | Cutting and Gluing 8mm film |
| When useful | In the early 70 taking shots of you jumping around the beach of villamarina. Also, amateur film-makers sometimes edit this way, though more and more telecine the film and edit it digitally |
Into the early 1980s, there were no affordable handheld videotape recorders with a camera. There was, however, 8mm film called Super 8 or Single 8. The 8-mm cartridges could take scenes with about 2.5 minutes length. Then, the cartridge was full and had to be replaced by a fresh one. When holiday was over one turned back home with a ton of 8-mm cartridges. After developing in the local drugstore, one soon received many little reels with each full of 2.5 minutes of holiday happiness.
To produce a family-entertaining piece of vacation memories you have to use a special cut and glue device. It was used to align the film pieces and glue them together correctly. Then you control the scene at a special and very fragile preview projector and do cut-and-glue over and over. Until the movie was completed. Then you force your family to gather in front of a projection screen and enjoy your work. A good time for this was usually Christmas.
Most families simply stuck to shooting scenes under 2:30 seconds; film and development were expensive, and movie editing takes a lot of time and energy.