![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If the film strip is roughly two pencils wide-and on a reel that looks like the kind you might see in a documentary about the Golden Age of Hollywood-it’s probably 16 mm. Each 3-inch reel contains about 50 feet of film, good for only a few minutes of action. “Regular 8 film is about as wide as a pencil on a small reel about 3 inches in diameter,” says Howard Besser, professor of cinema studies at New York University and founding director of the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program. ![]() If you have old reels of film in the attic packed in iconic yellow Kodak boxes, they’re probably Regular 8 or Super 8 film. Although Kodak released 16 mm Kodachrome film in 1935, then 8 mm (aka Regular 8) film a year later, home movies didn’t really take off until the 1960s, when Kodak released Super 8. ![]()
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