Ireland in 1970 on Super 8.

This is an old super 8 movie i got from my parents. Filmed in 1970 outside of Tullamore, some footage taken on top of the esker, now home to esker hills golf and country club. Super 8 mm film (often simply called Super 8) is a motion picture film format released in 1965 by Eastman Kodak as an improvement of the older "Double" or "Regular" 8 mm home movie format.

The film is nominally 8 mm wide, exactly the same as the older standard 8 mm film, and also has perforations on only one side. However, the dimensions of the perforations are smaller than those on older 8 mm film, which allowed the exposed area to be made larger. The Super 8 standard also specifically allocates the rebate opposite the perforations for an oxide stripe upon which sound can be magnetically recorded.

Unlike other "super" gauges such as Super 16 and Super 35, the film stock used for Super 8 is not compatible with standard 8mm film cameras

There are several different varieties of the film system used for shooting, but the final film in each case has the same dimensions. By far the most popular system was the Kodak system.
Launched in 1965, Super 8 film comes in plastic light-proof cartridges containing coaxial supply and take-up spools loaded with 50 feet (15 m) of film. This was enough film for 2.5 minutes at the professional motion picture standard of 24 frames per second, and for 3 minutes and 20 seconds of continuous filming at 18 frames per second (upgraded from Standard 8 mm's 16 frame/s) for amateur use, for a total of approximately 3,600 frames per film cartridge. A 200-foot (61 m) cartridge later became available which could be used in specifically designed cameras, but that Kodak cartridge is no longer produced. Super 8 film was typically a reversal stock. Kodak makes two types of reversal film in this format today; one color (Ektachrome 100D/7285) and one black and white (Tri-X/7266). The Ektachrome 64T stock has recently been discontinued. In addition to reversals, Kodak also offers two negative stocks (Vision3 200T/7213 and Vision3 500T/7219). In the 1990s Pro-8 mm pioneered custom loading of several Super 8 stocks. Today Super 8 color negative film is available directly from Kodak for professional use and is typically transferred to video through the telecine process for use in television advertisement, music videos and other film projects.

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[user72689]

Nice video! Thumbs up!

[bnyr72]

@user72689 Thank you

[JetBike624]

That is brilliant! just love those old movies. oh how ireland has changed.

[bnyr72]

@JetBike624 Thank you

[kensington25]

Thanks so much for the footage. Fascinating to watch and see Ireland back in 1970.

[bnyr72]

@kensington25 Thanks a Million!

[JaayyB]

Back when Ireland was real Ireland.

[1984CESSPOOL]

Incredible! I love footage like this. I wonder if the people being filmed ever would have thought they would be seen worldwide 41 years later. AWESOME.

[criochnaithe]

I was born in June 1970, fascinating looking at this footage knowing it was taken around the time I was born!

[bnyr72]

@Nyquistic Thank a mill!

[Nyquistic]

Well done, keep 'em coming!

[joepyke]

@mcafreire ive had many bogeys there

[bnyr72]

@qdawg861 Thanks a million, i put up another one two days ago "building the tullamore harriers" and i've got more yet to put up.