8mm Forum: Hey Guys!! I'm going to be a DADDY!!!

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Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on January 25, 2008, 08:17 PM:

Yep, I just found out today. My wife is a month along!!

and .. yep!!

That kid is going to be well educated on the joys of film!!

Posted by Paul Spinks (Member # 573) on January 25, 2008, 09:02 PM:

Congratulations Osi!

Posted by Claus Harding (Member # 702) on January 25, 2008, 09:04 PM:

Congratulations from me too, Osi, all the best.

Claus.

Posted by Jose Artiles (Member # 471) on January 25, 2008, 09:34 PM:

[Big Grin]

Congratulations Osi,i wish you the best and god bless the baby

Posted by David Kilderry (Member # 549) on January 25, 2008, 10:11 PM:

Congratulaltions Osi! My wife is 8 weeks away from our fourth!

David

Posted by David Pannell (Member # 300) on January 26, 2008, 01:32 AM:

Congratulations to you both. [Big Grin]

Posted by Mike Peckham (Member # 16) on January 26, 2008, 02:08 AM:

Osi, congratulations! [Big Grin]

Wishing all three of you the very best that all the world can offer! [Smile]

Mike

Posted by David Park (Member # 123) on January 26, 2008, 08:26 AM:

Congratulations.

So you do not watch films all the time, lol.

Posted by Maurice Leakey (Member # 916) on January 26, 2008, 08:46 AM:

Osi

Congratulations. Bringing up a family many years ago curtailed my film collecting, but I have many Std. 8 and Super 8 home-movies of the children growing up.

Now they have children of their own I am collecting again!

Best wishes.

Maurice

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on January 26, 2008, 09:37 AM:

Yep, we don't watch the films ALL the time ...

The bulbs do burn out!

(heh heh!)

Posted by Mark Williams (Member # 794) on January 26, 2008, 09:59 AM:

Congratulations Osi!!

Yes sometimes there are more interesting things to do in the dark LOL [Smile]

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on January 26, 2008, 11:52 AM:

... and congratulations to you David on your fourth!!

(I can hardly wait to get some photo's of the baby curiously inspecting reels of film!)

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on January 26, 2008, 12:10 PM:

Osi
Congratulations and best wishes. [Smile]

Graham.

Posted by Mal Brake (Member # 14) on January 26, 2008, 01:29 PM:

My congratulations too.
If you use 9.5mm you could call the baby Pathe

Posted by Frank Picaro (Member # 811) on January 26, 2008, 04:52 PM:

Congrats from across the pond. Hope all are well and healthy. Hopefully your new child will appreciate the joys of film projection!! [Smile]

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on January 26, 2008, 06:35 PM:

Frank,

Which pond are you referring to.....Osi lives in Idaho! Actually, I guess the Mississippi River would qualify. [Wink]

Osi & David,

What great news!

Doug

Posted by Kevin Faulkner (Member # 6) on January 27, 2008, 11:22 AM:

Great news Osi. Congrats to you both from this side of the pond. Hope all goes well. Now all your troubles will really start.....forget about the films [Big Grin]

Kev.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on January 27, 2008, 01:14 PM:

Oh No Kevin,

This child will have an endless fascination with Super 8!

To start with, I'll get a 50 ft. reel of trash can film, and let the child happily unwind it all over the floor ...

Then the baby will do some of it's "teething" on the 50ft. reel!

Then i'll keep the projector just out of range, but enough to tempt the baby to his feet, learning to walk towards the projector.

THEN he'll learn to read via subtitles on silent movies, (shown at a very slow pace!)

and the list could go on!

Posted by Keith Ashfield (Member # 741) on January 27, 2008, 03:43 PM:

Congratulations to you and your wife, Osi. You thought that Film collecting was expensive, boy oh boy!!!

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on January 27, 2008, 04:45 PM:

Brings me back to the day I went downstairs and found my kid wrapping himself in about 200 feet of R8 Kodachrome. He was like a Kodak Mummy!

-a repaired splice and a thorough cleaning and it projected like nothing ever happened!

He has however become one of my favorite filmaking subjects and has become a great excuse for collecting cartoons!

-Congratulations!

[ January 27, 2008, 05:57 PM: Message edited by: Steve Klare ]

Posted by Kevin Faulkner (Member # 6) on January 27, 2008, 05:30 PM:

Osi, as they say "mean to start as you wish to go on" Good man.

Kev.

Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on January 27, 2008, 09:47 PM:

May your quiver be full! There is no joy on earth like a loving family. I wish there were more of them, and may yours be such a treasure, congratulations!!!!!

Posted by Jean-Marc Toussaint (Member # 270) on January 28, 2008, 07:06 AM:

Osi: congrats. Savour every moment, each day is a new and exciting adventure.
Having a baby girl changed our lives.
She attended several private screenings already (her first was the last 600ft of Star Wars). We celebrated her 1st b'day last xmas with the opening of our new cinema and a special screening of Ratatouille. She enjoyed the first half and then fell asleep. She's got a bunch of cores and rollers as chewing toys. [Big Grin]

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on January 28, 2008, 09:54 AM:

Fellas,

I think one of the best thing about having your own family,

is that you have a fresh start with another generation. I'm not going to be an "absentee father" like my dad, (though he did pass down the super 8 bug to me), and my wife won't let the abuse that happened in her family, happen with our children, nor will I.

Though only one family, mine will come up with a healthy respect for God, country and thier fellow man in general ...

and that's because I'M going to teach them, and not let the school system or mongrels all around them do my job!

... but, being into self defense, I will train them up to defend themselves well. never swing first but damn well get in the last shot ect.

... because they are coming into a very different world than you or I came into.

Here's to good luck in that endeavor ...

and though it will no doubt slow down my super 8 collecting,

I'll never be out, that's for sure!

LONG LIVE SUPER 8!!

Posted by Philippe Cuypers (Member # 55) on January 28, 2008, 10:14 AM:

hello: ozi! I wish you all the best with your new member of your family, you know is the best time of your life, I remember I have 3 children, and now 2 of my daughters are married, and my son is still with us, I thing he will be a bachelor but who knows?? again grongratulations, and enjoy those fast years ahead, and of course our great hobby super 8 , all the best philippe cuypers [Smile]

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on January 28, 2008, 04:22 PM:

Thanks to all you great fellas wishing the best!

I really wish that someday, all of us could get together in a big room, (must project those films after all), and meet everyone personally. I only get slight bits and pieces by what people say, but I get the idea that there are people on the forum that are long standing film professionals, whether in the past or present. heck I am a script-writer with mariginal directors credits myself, (well, one feature film and a number of shorts as well as animations), and I would love to talk with all you guys!

Once again, many thanks!

Posted by Alan Rik (Member # 73) on January 28, 2008, 04:57 PM:

Congrats! Now you can really put those Disney titles to work. [Smile]

Posted by Frank Picaro (Member # 811) on January 28, 2008, 07:15 PM:

Sorry about the pond gaffe, Osi and David. No matter where you are, the joys of family outweigh any other enjoyment. Yes, EVEN film collecting which I've enjoyed since 1955. We just tonight had our 3 kids and their families over for supper, and sitting around the family table sharing our daily lives is priceless. GOD bless you and your families. That goes for ALL our members!!!!

Posted by Joerg Polzfusz (Member # 602) on January 29, 2008, 04:40 AM:

Congrats! You should already order some film and check your camera! [Smile]

Posted by David Kilderry (Member # 549) on January 29, 2008, 10:39 PM:

My three kids love cartoons and various other shorts on Super 8 and 16mm. Their latest favourite is a full episode of the Road Runner Show complete with all the linking material between the cartoons on 16mm.

Number four will get much the same treatment, reels as toys, Super 8 and 16mm cameras shoved in their face and lots of shorts and cartoons...oh and of course lots of trips to our drive-in theatre!

Thanks for all your kind wishes and best of luck to you too Osi.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on January 31, 2008, 01:31 PM:

One thing is for absolutely sure ...

By the time that kid is able to move around on his/her own (as we want to be surprised), i will have built about four very long shelves HIGH UP, so that the little crumb cruncher can't get ahold of what I don't want him to ...

The film collection, that is ...

Posted by Graham Ritchie (Member # 559) on February 01, 2008, 01:19 AM:

Osi
You will be surprised what they can get up to [Roll Eyes]

my daughter liked eating the phone book and when my son was small she lured him into the drier told him it was a spaceship [Eek!]

she was four and Steven was two. I always thought she would bump him off "getting rid of the competition" so I unpluged everything just in case, [Roll Eyes]

they get on great now but it sure is an education for the parents.

One handy tip....is that all the old nappies we used, in later years came in handy for cleaning films, just the thing [Wink]

Graham.

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on February 08, 2008, 05:13 PM:

Wonderful Blessings to all -

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