Our friends Jennifer Proctor and Aaron Valdez have just launched Lost in Light.
This site got off the ground because a whole crew of people funded it through Havemoneywillvlog.com.
Basically, you can mail them your 8mm or Super 8 film that’s sitting in your closet collecting dust…
and they will transfer it onto video and upload it to Archive.org.
Read their About page.
This is a project about the 8mm film format. But
8mm is dead, you say? On the contrary! Not only is the format alive
with innovation by filmmakers around the world, but hours and hours of
Super 8 and regular 8mm film exist in attics and basements the world
over—as home movies, educational films, works of art—that is slowly
fading from the historical record.We’re here to preserve that record before these films are lost, and
to make those films available for viewing by the public and for use by
artists seeking new, compelling footage. Lost in Light is a project devoted to preserving, showcasing, and celebrating films created on the small-gauge 8mm film format.To that end, we provide free Super 8 and 8mm to video transfers to anyone who asks, in exchange for posting their video to the Lost in Light site and on the Internet Archive with their choice of Creative Commons licenses. In addition, Lost in Light
includes articles and features by members of the filmmaking and film
preservation communities, video tutorials for making 8mm films, as well
as creative work, all with the goal of preserving and championing this
important film format.
If you have a kick ass project like this one that needs funding…just go the HMWV page explaining how it works.