Maybe I can shed a bit of light on that Andrew. My first experience of watching any film on a projector outside of a cinema was at school, and it was 16mm, then we were taken to visit our local fire station, and we were shown a Jiminy Cricket cartoon on 16mm. When I got into home movies in 1973, Super 8 was the most popular guage; standard 8 was being phased out, and 16mm was too expensive, plus you couldn't buy feature films in that guage, only hire them. Plus, even though I was in a well paid job, 16mm equipment was out of my range. While we mourn the loss of film, it is the change over to broadcasting films on DVD that has allowed us to buy these previously unavailable films for often less that we were paying for Super 8. When I stopped buying Super 8 B&W features in the 80s I was paying £100, then forward to 2010 and I was paying £50 for 16mm features; secondhand yes, but the condition then was as new.