The most recent change in small format filmmaking came in 1965 with the intro- duction of a new film format - Super-8mm film. The new film had been proposed by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1962. The standard 8mm film had been derived by dividing the 16mm film in half. The result was that in proportion to the small frame size, an inordinate amount of the film's area was non-picture - perforations, frame lines, and so on. The new format was designed to make more efficient use of the film, by reducing the size of the perforations, and moving them nearer the edge of the film. By this means, the picture area was increased by 50%. Space down the edge opposite to the perforations was available for a sound track. The new film was launched in May 1965 in the form of a cartridge containing 50 feet (15.2 meters) of the new 8mm wide film. To load the camera, the cartridge was merely inserted, with no threading. A range of Kodak Insta- matic Movie cameras were introduced at the same time, and very soon a wide variety of apparati was available from other manufacturers. There have been a number of technical advances incorporated into the design of Super-8mm apparati in recent years. Special wide-aperature lenses, long exposure shutters, and high speed films are just a few. Today, for a very modest outlay, the Super-8mm filmmaker has at his disposal a sophiscated system for re- cording movement, sound, and color of which the pioneers could have only dreamed. Wordsworth Donisthorpe's hope of talking, moving pictures in color, expressed in 1878, has in a hundred years become available to all.