For those interested, the 8mm cine kit I used to film the movies on this site (mainly 1971-1973) are shown below. 

For the initial filming, I used a Chinon Colt 70 (shown below, left). This camera took 50m cine film cassettes from Kodak (inset panel, bottom left). After filming, I would place the exposed cassettes into a provided Kodak development envelope (shown in inset,top right), put my Royal Mail stamps on – and then wait two weeks for the envelope to be returned from Kodak’s Labs in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. When you opened up the padded envelope, you would find your processed reel of 8mm film, ready to go on your projector (inset pic, top left). 

This process was nothing short of magic. It’s incredible how technology has now come on, and allows us to digitize the original movie and present it to the Internet as a file which literally anyone in the world can see. Of course one never imagined such things when shooting on the original camera, which like the projector was purchased on the “never, never” (credit) by my mum in 1971 at Dixons, The New Strand, Bootle. It was a compensation because she could not afford to send me on the school cruise in 1970. She was still paying for the kit three years later, but it’s the only reason we have these films today, giving us a glimpse of 1970s Litherland. I still have the projector. Thanks Mum!