Launched in 1965 by Eastman Kodak at the 1964-65 Worlds Fair, Super 8 film comes in plastic light-proof cartridges containing coaxial supply and take up spools loaded with 50ft of film, with 72 frames per foot, for a total of approximately 3,600 frames per film cartridge.
The original Super 8 film release was a silent system only, but in 1973 a sound on film version was released.