Home Movies: March 29, 1960
At Thanksgiving dinner, my grandmother handed me four 8mm film reels she had acquired from an old family friend years and years earlier. She had no idea what was on said film, but I have a projector and offered to take them home and view them.
Turns out they were old home movies of my grandparents, mom, aunt, uncle and various friends and family, filmed during 1960 and 1961. We’re actually guessing on the dates — the boxes that the reels are in have a month/date written on them, and based on how old my aunt and uncle appear, we can approximate the year.
I sent them all to Digital Transfer Systems (the first place a Google search gave me and oddly enough, out of Northbrook, IL) to be transfered to a MiniDV tape so I could eventually burn DVDs for the family.
So… here’s the first reel, dated March 29th, 1960. This one is short — the first half of the reel was blank.
(12.2MB / 02:24)
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Who’s carrying the baby in red? (and who is the baby?)
I loved the song, it went perfectly!!
And that puppy is the cutest.
Said by lynnerlynnerbobinner on December 15, 2006 @ 8:53 am · Link Quote.
lynnerlynnerbobinner said…
The baby is my aunt (Kailey’s mom) and the woman holding her is my grandma.
Said by kellybelly on December 15, 2006 @ 9:25 am · Link Quote.
There’s a long entry on “The Rip Off Report” by someone who said he had a terrible experience with Digital Transfer Systems. I was thinking of sending them some reels, and I’m wondering if you have any complaints about their work. It looks good on the video.
Said by Kurt on May 11, 2007 @ 1:39 pm · Link Quote.