What the holy hell is a Swing Wing?
Were toys really that sucky back in the 60s? Good lord, that doesn’t even look fun.
[EDIT] Even better version under the cut…
Home Movies: September 14, 1961
The fourth and final old movie; this one is from September 14, 1961.
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Home Movies: June 26, 1961
Time for more old home movies that were transferred off of 8mm reels. This is the third reel, dated June 26th, 1961. This was filmed nearly a whole year after the previous video. My mom is only in the last ten seconds of this one, and my aunt and uncle are the little ones.
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Home Movies: July 29, 1960
Here’s the second of four old home movies that recently came into my possesion. This one is dated July 29th, 1960. For reference, my mom is the girl in the white sailor-type short outfit, my aunt is the toddler running around, my grandma is pregnant with my uncle, and my grandpa is the chef.
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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.
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