Comments on: Castle Films Home Movie Catalog https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/castle-films-home-movie-catalog/ Reboot Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:08:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: lisa https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/castle-films-home-movie-catalog/#comment-2096 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:04:00 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2008/10/10/castle-films-home-movie-catalog/#comment-2096 When I was around 3 (which would have been '81), my parents rented a projector & some of these films from somewhere. It wasn't the library though, because I remember going to a store in Toronto that had shelves & shelves full of them. It's actually one of my most vivid childhood memories! I know we got Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker cartoons, because I can still "see" them. Apparently Super 8 movies make great childhood memories 🙂

]]> By: Dancin' Homer https://plaidstallions.com/reboot/castle-films-home-movie-catalog/#comment-2094 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:12:00 +0000 http://plaidstallions.com/reboot/index.php/2008/10/10/castle-films-home-movie-catalog/#comment-2094 When I was a kid, we’d have the extended family over for BBQs in the summer and those nights would inevitably end with Dad setting up the 8mm projector and showing the old home movies. But amongst the reels of home movies, there were also 2 authentic Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny cartoons, and my dad would put them on for me and my brother after the family flix were done. These were Bugs episodes that my brother and I could see on any given day after school on television, but the idea that we could show them on our rickety white screen, on that projector, with the dust particles floating in the light it cast . . . somehow made it a magical experience. Our projector didn’t even have sound. We’d be watching Bugs Bunny cartoons that we’d seen a million times on channel 5, without sound, and it was fantastic.

So I can’t imagine what it would have been like to have a theatrical release like Star Wars showing in my home!

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