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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted February 28, 2009 10:02 AM
Wow Barry, those films must be magnificent, ranging all the way back to wartime England, (being 70 years of film history).
I agree with Barry. I have received in lots, a number of home movies, and it stuns me that people would get rid of these. True, many just place these (and rather cheaply, and it shows on screen) on video or DVD, and trash them ...
... but there's a larger segment of our culture that, when Grandma and Grandpa pass on, they just box up this film stuff and just throw it away. I saw this just a few weeks ago. A dear old lady, sweet as anything, passed on. Her greedy grandchildren, (her only son died some years back) just grabbed what jewelry and other valuables they could, and tossed the rest on the curb ... in two days flat!
In that "curb junk" was her whole life history, (she died at 97)
and there were home movies that started with double sprocket 16MM black and white, (as well as some obviously early color film), to early standard 8mm home movies. The family must have been well to do, as they used color from almost the beginning.
It appears that the film-making petered out in the 1970's (her husband died in 1980) and there was a good over fifty years of americana, saved on beatiful kodak safety film ... from a lovely "flapper girl" of the 1920's ...
... through seeing her man off to war in the early 40's ...
... to getting they're new house upon his return, (which they would spend the rest of thier lives in), the husband, holding his a few year old son with his one good arm, (the other being a claw) ...
... to myriads of images of the children, growing up, being seen less and less as they became teenagers ... flower power taking over ...
... and almost never being seen again. The grandchildren are never seen.
One of the last images on film was of her, holding her husband in the hospital, the two of them smiling together. A friend of the family took that film, she told me.
... and I even had a hand in the filming. It turned out that before her husband had died, he had bought four extra rolls that were never exposed and believe it or not, they had been stored in her refridgerator for fifteen years! In 1995, I took so,me reels of her, tending her garden in the backyard and stuff. It was fun filming with that old super 8mm camera.
... I snuck out the night that the "garbage" was thrown on the curb, (I had walked by a mere hour earlier at sunset) and got both that whole box of films and an old projector.
... and, to conclude the story, Gertrudes beautiful life lives on in the Osgood home!
Thank you for bringing up this topic! This was a FOND REMEMBRANCE FOR ME!
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 16, 2009 10:03 AM
Joe,
I have approximately 600ft of other peoples home movies (not Gertrudes, those are sacred to me), if your interested, shoot me an e-mail, they are american home movies, though.
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"All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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