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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I thought it might be fun to bring a Jones Soda Holiday Pack (we had the national pack) to my aunt’s house for everyone to try.

I was right. It was fun.

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The video is a lot longer and larger than I’ve been posting lately; I had about 20 minutes of video to edit. I cut a good chunk out but I had to leave a lot of it in, so I sped up a lot of it. Not the best editing job, but it’ll do.

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My sister and I usually end up having an item of clothing or an accessory that matches whenever we get together. It’s kinda weird.

It was dark-ish when I taped this; sorry for the crappy quality. I tried to brighten it up and this is about as far as I could go without it looking like total shit.

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I should be posting a few clips from today sometime in the future. My family is crazy.