It revolutionised domestic movies in the 60 and 70s and was used by directors in their teens including JJ Abrams and Christopher Nolan. Kodak’s fresh design hopes to capitalise on renewed interest in analogue techIt was the low-tech,easy-to-use film format beloved of budding auteurs and cinema-obsessed visual artists, but Super 8 died a death in 1982, or when Kodak stopped making the camera units after the rise of video. Now,however, Kodak has announced it will issue a fresh version of the Super 8 camera, and half a century after it was first launched in 1965.
Super 8 – so called because of the redesigned camera and film stock,which allowed a larger image to be derived from film that was a similar size to the standard 8mm gauge – helped revolutionise domestic movies in the 1960s and 70s by operating with an easily-loaded film cartridge, and adding capability to record sound on the same film strip.
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Source: theguardian.com