The Flight of Apollo 17...Vitachrome??

#1 by Greg Perry , Thu Feb 03, 2022 5:08 pm

Using NASA footage, Holiday Films sold this title, and several other astronomy and space exploration titles.
This one, about the Apollo 17 moon mission is 200 feet, great color, but no sound. The box cover (now posted on Super 8 database), indicates "New High Quality Vitachrome Process"....

Has anyone heard of "Vitachrome"? This Super 8 film was from 1982 and actually is on Eastman LPP stock. Maybe "Vitachrome" is simply marketing hype?

ANyway, here are a few pics:








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#2 by Mark Mander , Thu Feb 03, 2022 6:15 pm

Looks nice Greg, I have a few films that say they are a certain film stock that aren't, probably the original film stock was Vitacrome , Mark


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#3 by Maurice Leakey , Fri Feb 04, 2022 1:23 pm

Vitachrome appears to be a two-colour process.
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RE: The Flight of Apollo 17...Vitachrome??

#4 by Greg Perry , Fri Feb 04, 2022 2:59 pm

Very interesting....thank you for finding this.



 
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#5 by Tom Photiou , Fri Feb 04, 2022 6:31 pm

Quite an unusual item Greg, the images are very good though.


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RE: The Flight of Apollo 17...Vitachrome??

#6 by Greg Perry , Fri Feb 04, 2022 8:10 pm

Here is the cover, with the reference to "Vitachrome"....



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#7 by Tom Photiou , Fri Feb 04, 2022 8:37 pm

wonder if they use the same process as Kodachrome?



 
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#8 by Eivind Mork , Sun Feb 06, 2022 1:34 pm

Great find! I haven't seen this around! I really like space history, and for me it suits Super 8 in a good way as Super 8 came around the same time and both reflects technology of the time.


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#9 by Tom Photiou , Sun Feb 06, 2022 3:45 pm

The images certainly are very good. Holiday films is a new one on me.



 
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