Nuclear Nightmares - Winner 2011 Pro 8 mm "My Super-8 Movie Contest"

a Neil Capolongo film.

See the full length film ( 35 minutes ) in HD!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaaWvraacvg

Winner: 2011 Pro 8 mm "My Super-8 Movie Contest"

I am happy to announce that "Nuclear Nightmares" ( AKA "Dead Beat" ) was chosen from among entries from around the world to be among the 8 winners of the contest.

Pro 8 mm has scanned the film to HD! I am very excited that I have been able to upload the full length film in HD!

Thank you for your support!

Wedding musician, Neil, somehow works out his frustration over where his musical career and his marriage to Mary have ended up by obsessing on movies having to do with impending nuclear holocaust. His dreams are about his career, his marriage and his obsessive nucleomituphobia.

Started in 1990 and completed in 1992, "Nuclear Nightmares" ( AKA "Dead Beat" ) was shot on Super-8 Kodachrome 40 sound reversal film. The camera used was a Nizo 6080.

Seen here is a 10 minute segment of this originally 47 minute film, taken from a VHS dub ( film to Beta SP to VHS ) with some tightening on iMovie.

The project was originally double-system edited on film. Camera original was cut using a PGP 6 plate Super-8 flatbed editor-incorporating the "Super-8 Sound" sync sound system: Mag IV fullcoat recorder and Elmo GS1200 projector.

The location sound for all the interior scenes ( except one ) was recorded with the fullcoat recorder. The location sound for all the exterior scenes ( and the interior scene of Neil searching around the house for Mary ) was recorded on the film sound stripe; and then transferred to fullcoat for editing.

Dialog, effects, and music tracks were then transferred to a multi-track cassette recorder for the mix. The final edited sound was then resolved back to a master fullcoat which was then recorded back onto the film's magnetic track.

The film's magnetic track was used, at first, during the Rank Cintel telecine; but the sound on the Beta-SP dub was later re-recorded using the fullcoat master. A reel-to-reel safety master was also made.

For some reason, the film has begun to degrade and "break up" here on You Tube. Now that Pro 8 mm has scanned the film to HD, I am glad to announce that the full length film is available on YouTube in HD.


Of interest: In 1992, many viewers felt that the concept of nuclear terrorism was not believable.

cast: Neil--Neil Capolongo Mary--Zephryn Conte Jack (v.o.)--Todd Shoman




Produced, written, directed and edited by Neil Capolongo

Director of Photography: Dennis Capolongo

Camera Operators: Dennis Capolongo, Neil Capolongo, Lou Rosenberg, Todd Shoman, George Rugen.

"Stablecam" operator: Lou Rosenberg

Location Sound: Todd Shoman, Neil Capolongo, Gildo Spadoni

Sound Effects Generation and Recording: Todd Shoman, Neil Capolongo

Boom, Went to buy the cookie sheet: Rob Andretta

Music: Bernard Herrmann, Gyorgy Ligeti, Daniele Amfitheatrof, plus one of the twelve composers credited at www.imdb.com for "Plan 9 From Outer Space" stock music

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Independent Film
• Super-8 sound
• Kodachrome K-40
• Nizo 6080
• dream sequences
• nucleomituphobia

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