Mr. Shahgholi is not feeling nostalgic; he is transferring an eight-millimeter film to videotape, one of the specialties of his nine-year-old firm, International Video Services.

Mr. Wenner gave Ms. Leacock 23 reels, a total of 45 hours, of eight-millimeter film covering a four-year period.

In six little arenas scattered around the Southeast, professional basketball teams are playing a version of the game that seemed relegated to eight-millimeter film.

To get those images, the photographer Marianne Courville combed through reels of eight-millimeter film, frame by frame over a light table, each frame measuring about one-quarter by one-eighth inch.

On Tuesday, Plexifilm also released "Fruit of the Vine," a skateboarding documentary shot on eight-millimeter film.

The searching officials did not find evidence of bookmaking, but instead discovered three reels of eight-millimeter film.

Memories flash in front of my eyes like frames from an eight-millimeter film.

Private booth peep shows upgraded from grainy eight-millimeter film to 100-plus-channel video.

The former Andy Warhol "superstar" Joe D'Allesandro also appears as himself today and as a teen-ager in an eight-millimeter nude film made by Mizer.

In the case of the Friedman family of Great Neck, on Long Island, the videotapes and eight-millimeter films say plenty.