Help me identify old 50's-60's era "film roll" media type

[03coloradowrangler]

My current winter side project has been converting family vhs, negatives, photos, slides and 8/super8 to digital. Ive got about 3 solid days of work in to date (multiple days worked a few hours here and there) with approximately 3500 scanned photos, 1500 slides & about 12 hours of vhs completed.
I use roxio vhs to dvd for vhs tapes, a kodak stanza for slides and negatives, cheap $30 cannon printer/scanner for photos & soon to be delivered wolverine moviemaker-pro for the 8mm film rolls. its pretty interesting seeing all these faces and putting places and names together.

I'm in my early 30's and anything past 35mm or slides is new territory to me and was wondering if someone here might be familiar with what this is, I suspect its some type of audio tape but unsure as to what format it is.

the spool is about 2" in diameter and the tape is 5/8" wide & length of roll is unknown. one side is glossy black and the other a creme color.

 

[qslim]

I went through some of this years ago helping someone do this, not anywhere near your level though. I learned a lot from this site:

https://www.filmcare.org/filmbaseid.php

 

[Mr. Bills]

Looks like 16mm film to me.


https://www.littlefilm.org/Talks/Gauges16mm.html

 

[jjvw]

Looks like 16mm film to me.


https://www.littlefilm.org/Talks/Gauges16mm.html

Agreed. 8mm is 16mm sliced in half and has sproket holes on one side rather than both.

Also, that roll might be undeveloped or unused.

 

[03coloradowrangler]

thanks guys, undeveloped 16mm sounds like a high possibility. I came across a 8 & 16mm film splicer in another box so im suspicious thats more than likely what it is.

 

[03coloradowrangler]

If anyones interested In the 8mm film digitizing, here's some examples. im using the wolverine moviemaker pro. a 5" spool takes about 2 hours to process a 15 minute video & im working on a 7" spool I expect to take 4 hours currently. it takes a individual picture of each frame and combines it all into a video. a 15 minute video totals ~1gb of data.

Example of created video

The hardest part of the whole process is waiting for it to finish of course.
I currently have my collection listed live on YouTube for family to preview & will be taking it down once I complete to edit and process what ive come up with onto dvd or other portable media.