User`s manual

Professional Super 8
Professional Super 8 began with the introduction of Super 8 fullcoat magnetic film and
the development of a versatile sync fullcoat recorder that is compatible with all sync
signals, and serves the multiple functions of location recorder, laboratory resolver, sound
studio dubber, and transfer recorder. The Super8 Sound Recorder was called "the most
i mportant addition to the Super 8 scene" by American Cinematographer in their review
"Professional Super 8 at Photokina '74". The Super8 Sound Recorder brings to Super 8
all the straightforward double-system editing techniques of 16mm and 35mm filmmaking,
since fullcoat magnetic film is easily cut frame-for-frame alongside picture film.
Since the pioneering work of the research groups in Cambridge, Mass. who introduced
Super 8 fullcoat and developed the Super8 Sound Recorder, two key technical develop-
ments have further widened the professional applications of Super 8.
• The first was the development by Beaulieu in Paris of a professional sound-on-film
Super 8 camera utilizing the same Super 8 sound cartridge that has revolutionized
home movie making.
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The second was the development by Kodak in Rochester of an inexpensive flying-spot-
scanner device that converts Super 8 sound films into full-color broadcast video
signals. Super 8 has suddenly become the lowest-cost video production medium.
Every production and post-production technique of professional filmmaking can now be
accomplished in Super 8 at a cost averaging one-fifth the capital cost of 16mm equip-
ment. The Super8 Sound Catalog lists every necessary tool — sync cameras, sync fullcoat
recorders, sync cassette recorders, crystal-sync location equipment, camera-quieting
silencers, multiple-track sync recorders, inexpensive motorized editing benches, elegant
horizontal editing tables, double-band interlock projectors, as well as single-system
Super 8 cameras and the new technology of "Super 8 Video".
With all these developments, isn't it time you got into Super 8?
And if you're already using Super 8 as a silent film —
Isn't It Time You Got Into Sync?
Super 8 Sound, Inc.
95 Harvey Street, Cambridge, Mass. 02140
[phone]
S8SC 7/76