1980 Hong Kong Secondary School (Super 8 film): Re-upload

These Super 8 video clips were taken during our school's tenth anniversary celebrations in November 1980. It is the only video footage we have from the school's first twenty years.

Photographs: The scanned photos seen during the end credits can be downloaded from our flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/43402751@N08/sets/72157625071330071/

The making of the video is described also here: http://cmestudio.wordpress.com/works/anniversary-celebrations/




Camera work: If you know who recorded the video, please let me know so that I can properly acknowledge their work.

Sound: The type of Super 8 film used for these recordings cannot record sound. All sounds and music were added in the editing process.

Additional information: Lam Woo is celebrating it's 40th anniversary this year, so it is a good time to look back on the school's history. I hope you enjoyed the journey back in time.

Music:
The following tracks were used as background music:
Dustin O'Halloran -- Opus 36
Gackt -- Returner (instrumental version)
Epik High -- Forest
Joe Hisaishi -- Theme from Princess Mononoke
Kostas Pavlidis -- Spread Your Wings and Fly
楊庶正 -- 祝福太平山 (performed by the Lam Woo's Intermediate Girls Choir)
Hon See-wah -- Erhu Solo
Michael Nyman -- Peeking
The Brilliant Green -- Goodbye and Good Luck

Editing:
The video was edited by Stephen Richards. The images were edited using Premiere Pro and After Effects CS4. The photos were retouched in Photoshop CS3.
In June, I found eight small reels of developed (and very degraded) film in a paper bag, at the bottom of a big plastic container full of old photographs from the 70s and 80s. The container itself was at the bottom of a cupboard. Our TA, Cherry, helped me track down a local company that could do a telecine transfer (i.e., create digital files from film stock)—Last Coyote Productions.

Apparently, Super 8 film should be stored in very dry, near freezing conditions (a far cry from Hong Kong's hot and humid climate), so the film has deteriorated quite a lot in the past thirty years. Before the editing process a lot of the footage looked like videos of shadows moving around in a purple murk.

Each reel contained about two-and-a-half minutes of film. This is why the editing sometimes seems a little choppy. A lot of the shots were very short (just a few seconds), presumably because the video camera operators were trying capture long events in a few minutes of film.

Almost all the usable clips from seven of the reels are included in this video. The eighth reel features the speech day, which mainly consists of recordings of (silent) speeches and students receiving awards. That has been uploaded separately.

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[lamwoostudio2]

I'm not sure . . . no one involved in the filming this video is around to ask (I found the old reels of films at the bottom of some boxes of old photos).

[lawwingcheung]

what kind of kung fu is this ?