The 8mm film or 8mm is a (narrow) film format where the filmstrip is eight millimeters wide.
8mm film comes in three versions:
the normal or standard 8mm, also called Double 8
Super 8, a slightly larger format with an improved image projection, which eventually became the standard for cine film from the 1970s onwards
Single 8.
The standard 8mm film format (Double 8) was developed by the Eastman Kodak company during the Great Depression and marketed in 1932 to create an amateur film format that was less expensive than 16mm film. The film reels actually contained 16mm film, but with twice as many perforations along each edge as normal 16mm film. The film was only exposed along half of its width. The reel is turned over after filming from one side to record the other side. After developing the film, it is cut lengthwise to produce a normal 8mm film. The image size of 8 mm is 4.8 x 3.5 mm and 1 m of film contains 264 images. Normally Double 8 works with 16 frames/second.
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