The Zapruder film is a silent 8mm color motion picture sequence shot by Abraham Zapruder with a Bell & Howell home-movie camera, as United States President John F. Kennedy's motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. Unexpectedly, it captured the President's assassination.
Frame 150 from the Zapruder film. Kennedy's limousine has just turned onto Elm Street, moments before the first shot, and the President is apparently waving.
A Bell & Howell Zoomatic movie camera used to shoot the film, in the collection of the U.S. National Archives
8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the film strip is eight millimetres (0.31 in) wide. It exists in two main versions – the original standard 8 mm film, also known as regular 8 mm, and Super 8. Although both standard 8 mm and Super 8 are 8 mm wide, Super 8 has a larger image area because of its smaller and more widely spaced perforations.
"Super 8" 8 mm films
Ciné-Kodak Kodachrome 8mm movie film (expired: May 1946)
Revere Model 144 8 mm film camera from 1955 at Universum museum in Mexico City
Standard and Super 8 mm film comparison