BOOTLACE CINEMA: A must-have book for every super 8 enthusiast

Last week I received (via Amazon) a very curious book from England, which I´m taking from my library today, Monday, to start reading: "Bootlace Cinema. Collecting Horror, Sciencia Fiction & Exploitation Movies on Super 8", written by Mark Williams. I´m surprised by its careful hardcover binding in a book aimed at a niche of a niche of a niche, because how many readers, in the immense world, in its immense and unfathomable roundness, are interested in collecting horror and science fiction films in Super-8?  The book consists of 140 large-format pages printed in full colour. Not only is the text interesting, but also the illustrations, with the original covers of the film reels boxes, which many of us collectors have lost when we replaced the original cardboard boxes with archival quality ones.

I quickly skim through it and, just like that, in a quick glance, it starts off very well, when the prologuist, the director Donald Farmer, refers to those colorful Castle Films boxes from the early seventies.

I also discover that Derann Films edited two 400-foot digests of Castle Films in Kodak LPP stock at the end of the 80s: let's see if I can find them second-hand, at a reasonable price, because mine, originals from Castle Films, at Eastman, have faded.

A book, "Bootlace Cinema", essential for any Super-8 enthusiast, and even for film buffs who study the insides of the film industry.

See, in the photo above, with which books this volume by Mark Williams shares space in my library of film related books: Jeff Joseph´s "A Thousand Cuts", Slide´s "Nitrate won´t wait", "Castle Films", "Film Collecting" and "Making Kodak Film", among others.