2026-08-15 Cherry 8mm Wet Film Editor

The Cherry 8mm wet film editor came as an extra in a donation of some movie equipment. It was made by Cherry Shogi Co. in Japan. It wet splices Super 8, 8mm and 16 mm film. The same splicer may have ben imported and sold under a lot of Minoluxclosed brand names: Photopia, LPL, ESWIN, Pro and Milolux all look very similar.
Years ago we wrote about the Milolux primarily because it came with two pages

The instructions sound complicated, but the process isn’t that difficult. Basically the two films are trimmed with just a little overlap. That overlap has to be scraped so the film cement can bind the films base to the base.

Two file-like metal scrapers are provided:one swing up and one free (in a YouTube video I watched the demonstrator used a small sanding block instead of the metal scrapers provided).

   Then a dash of cement is applied and the film clamped together. Wait a while to let the cement set—time depends on thickness of application, humidity, age of cement and phase of the moon— and then remove the finished splice.
   Of course, like all skills, you have to have faith it will work and the confidence it will work will eventually come. Those with less confidence can use the same splicer to help apply tape splices, but there were dedicated tape splicers too.

In the same box as the editor there were these plastic hub adapters. In a time with Regular 8 mm and Super 8 (who had different reel hub sizes, to prevent mistakes) those projectors that could handle both films—the sprockets are different size and spacing—had to have feed and take-up spool hubs to handle the different reel hubs. For those trapped with the wrong reel, these hub adapters might help.

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