 | Videotape is the most creative and easiest way to show home movies on your VCR and TV, eliminating the need for bothersome old projectors, screens, and burned out projection bulbs. |
Before videotape became the standard of home movie-making, two sizes of home movie film, 8mm and 16 mm, were used. In the late 1960s, a variation of 8mm film was introduced: super-8mm. It was the same size as regular 8mm film, but it could not be used in traditional 8mm cameras and projectors because the sprocket holes were sized differently. Super-8mm produced a larger picture, and also offered the opportunity for sound. |  |
Film is not to scale, but is relative in size to one another:
 | 8mm with larger sprocket holes |
 | Super 8mm with smaller sprocket holes |
 | Super 8mm with sound track (across bottom) |
 | 16 mm |
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