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Super 8 made home movies cheap and simple

Kodak launched the cartridge format in 1965 with cameras to match Kodak introduced Super 8 in 1965, using a plastic cartridge that dropped straight into the camera and film only 8mm wide with smaller perforations for a larger image area. Cameras were light and easy to load, and the format became the standard for home movies and, later, low-budget filmmaking. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Kodak launched the cartridge format in 1965 with cameras to match. The figure is taken from Science and Media Museum, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.