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Does anybody remember what the Super8/8mm movie displays looked like at K-Mart, Holiday, Service Merch, your local camera store, etc/or...? Or better yet, maybe even a picture?

I remember a display from my childhood. It was in the photo section of a 3D store which of course no longer exists. Was very basic and just a rack with super 8mm films. Was in the camera display area of the store and had no outstanding features.

My Dad was very big in still photography all the years I was growing up, so we spent a lot of time standing in the checkout line in the camera department. There were always spin-around racks full of 8mm shorts and digests. They were wire racks maybe 5 feet tall and a foot on a side made of heavy, black coated wire. If I remember correctly the top of the display said "Castle Films".

In a seven year old's eye this was exotic stuff: we didn't have a movie projector and even our neighbors that did didn't have sound.

It would be neat to have one of those racks these days, not only for the nostalgia: I need the storage!

I remember them, but I wasn't buying back then. Phil Johnson's website used to have pictures of Phil standing in a room filled with Super 8 displays from the past he had purchased. I think they were in his basement.

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Have to agree with Dan as always. Phil and I have done a lot of business over the years and the racks Phil used to have on his websight were exactly what I rememberd when I was a kid. Spin-around racks but without company logos on them. Just bare, black wire racks.When I was a kid there were seldom new releases so most of them were pretty bare except for travel films. Went to the Kennedy Space Station in Florida when I was about 14 and they were selling super 8 prints of the first shuttle mission I think it was the Columbia but my father wouldn't buy it for me since I didn't have a projector back then. That was probably the last time I saw film on the open market.