Robin Williams Talks Super-8...

[Alex]

From the Los Angeles Daily News...LA Life, Cover Story, Thursday, August 29th, 2002 Page4.

Williams grew up within a family that didn't take pictures very often. After the death of his mother, he sicovered some old Super-8 film that he hadn't known existed. And his interest was piqued.

"My father made them of my mother fishing. Sometimes you get it. Why were my mother and father together? And I was like, 'Oh my God, she was gorgeous,'" Says Williams.

"These were taken by my Dad, and that's the other part of the equation. Then there's a shot where he hands the camera off to someone else and steps into the picture. And it's like, 'Jesus, there's Dad and he's handsome.' There's my mom. It's like time travel.

It's like the Indians say: The greatest photos of all capture a bit of your soul."

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Robin Williams stars in "One Hour Photo"

[Mike Buckles]

Great story...it's always fun to discover an unwatched treasure like a super 8 film...it really does turn the distant past into reality! And I think super 8 has more watchability than video, because with video I've found that you record EVERYTHING....while film forces you to be more judicious in your planning and capture just those moments that were seminal of the event you're filming. Of course, editing can fix a lot of that, but most average people don't/can't edit their footage.

[Alex]

Just thought I'd put a link to Mikey B's similar topic post that came out before the Robin Williams story.

hmmmm, maybe Robin Williams is stalking Mikey B.

Mikey B posts about how an old Super-8 film brought a newfound appreciation about the past to a relative...

http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ult...ic&f=405&t=267

Robin Williams says the same thing, after Mikey B had created his topic post.

Mikey B used to work at a one-hour photo place, Robin Williams is starring in a movie called one-hour photo...

hmmmmm....very interesting. [img]eek.gif[/img]