Marty Hamrick Posted October 8, 2013 Share Posted October 8, 2013 I've posted this scene description on several movie trivia sites as well as old movie forums and such and no one has been able to offer any information. I have an old childhood memory about a movie in which super 8 camera commercials were lampooned. I remember seeing images of this impressive looking super 8 camera that was called something like the "Hamshika Super 8". It was an impressive looking camera, kind of like a Bolex 160, if memory serves, but you saw people shooting with it and a low,husky , sexy female voice whispered the word "Capture!" all the way through the spoof commercial. The final shot in the spoof commercial scene was a crowd of people dropping their cameras en masse in a huge dumpster. I'll have to go back and look at it, but it may be a scene out of an old obscure comedy-sci fi called The Monitors, but I'm not sure. The era would be right, 1966-70 or so. Might be a British comedy, but not sure. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joerg Polzfusz Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Hi, I never heard of "Hamshika". Hence I would assume that it was either Yashica or Fujica. As Fuji never produced any Super8-cameras, this would reduce it to "Yashica Super 8". http://super8wiki.com/index.php/Category:Yashica http://super8data.com/database/cameras_list/cameras_yashica/cameras_yashica.htm At least Yashica used women in their ads: http://www.retrothing.com/2012/03/the-image-of-women-in-photo-ads.html?ModPagespeed=noscript Jörg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Millar Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Joerg, I don't think he is looking for a real commercial? He mentioned Hamshika would be the spoof name of the camera, likely using Yashika as it's target. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Hamrick Posted October 10, 2013 Author Share Posted October 10, 2013 That's right,Chris. I was NOT looking for a real ad. I was looking for a movie that featured a spoof ad,probably lampooning Yashcia as "Hamshika" or something similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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