Yup, lots of folks had 8mm cameras in early 60’s.
A few had really nice 16mm. There are great 16mm shorts shot by Roddy McDowell at his Malibu beach house in the early 60’s that are on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgm7-Br1w5ZvEsjxGtPTZbuGUHhwOjTJY
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2950502/posts?page=13#13
Super-8 film was not introduced until 1965.
The person who supplied the video online said it was shot with a Super-8 camera.
This article and the claim is bogus.
There’s a difference between 8mm film and Super 8. Yes, they are both 8mm but Super 8 came out around 1965.
Sure. I was shooting both 8mm and 16mm films in 1961 but there was no Super 8 film until the late ‘60s.