The RAF at Home

This is an excerpt of a very rare Regular 8mm home movie film with magnetic sound. It was scanned at 2k resolution at Gamma Ray Digital on our Lasergraphics ScanStation at the original frame rate of 18fps.

The film was made by Jack Joseph, a Royal Air Force photographer during WWII who turned to cinefilm after the war ended. He recorded and edited home movies in 8 and 16mm from the 1940s till the 1980s, working in a number of now rare formats, including regular 8mm sound film.

We believe he mixed the audio on 4-track 1/4" tape, then dubbed it to a post-edit mag stripe that was applied to the final film. We believe some of the audio in his collection was recorded on a Magnasync Nomad recorder for sync sound with windup cameras. Audio was edited in a home studio in a shed behind his home.

Mr. Joseph also created his own titles, including those seen here. On other films there are fairly complex optical effects such as picture-in-picture.

We're posting it here with the generous permission of the Joseph family, because it's such an unusual format.