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Jim Schrader
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From: Savage, MN, USA
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posted July 31, 2015 06:50 PM

Here's a nice story cbs had on the news this evening.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/on-the-road-steve-hartman-old-films-found-in-an-attic-bring-a-lost-love-story-to-life/

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Dave Groves
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From: Southend on Sea, Essex, UK
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posted August 01, 2015 09:28 AM

What a great story, and all because someone took a home movie. Wonder what treasures are still to be found in nameless attics? Thanks for posting what most of us wouldn't otherise have seen.

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Dominique De Bast
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posted August 01, 2015 10:12 AM

It's actually a little bit sad for the lady but it's nice to see a working projector and colour films from the 30's.

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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted August 01, 2015 01:22 PM

I'm always fascinated when I see old Kodachrome standard 8mm films from the 1930's. I've always felt that with the advent of World War 2, the last vestiges of the "old days" (that is, the old west and simple days apart from lots of modern stuff), ended.

You saw outfits and other things. in some old Kodachrome that I have seen of small towns in the west, you actually see some folks who didn't have enough money for a car, driving a wagon into they're small towns, in the early to mid 30's, in living color. The very last vestiges of the Old West, still somehow living on in kodachrome ...

... soon to be replaced with the modern mechanized world. Yes, modern mechanism did give us our projectors, of course, but I still pine for a simpler way of life.

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Joe Caruso
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posted August 01, 2015 03:04 PM

Wrote this show (actually a vignette) about lost memories carefully stored in an attic - That's the writer in me

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Clinton Hunt
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posted August 01, 2015 05:55 PM

Simply brilliant!

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Paul Adsett
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posted August 02, 2015 11:27 AM

Thanks so much for posting that Jim, I really enjoyed it. And what a fabulous testament to the enduring power of film and the genius and brilliance of the Kodachrome process.

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Steve Klare
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posted August 02, 2015 12:05 PM

I said to my wife "You will enjoy this video" and I was right.

-it's just a hint of the Winslet/Decaprio storyline in Titanic.

Our friend lives with her aunt, who is in her 80s and has been widowed about 20 years. They discovered a bunch of her uncle's 400 foot reels of Kodachrome family films from around 1970. Every so often I take one of these reels and redo Uncle Charlie's splices (Uncle Charlie and my ST-800 don't get along very well.) and show it to them when they come out.

It's amazing: like it's just back from the lab.

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Mark Todd
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From: UK
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posted August 02, 2015 04:52 PM

That is so lovely, what an amazing story.

Its just played on with 24 odd california fires wow.

Best Mark.

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Bill Brandenstein
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posted August 04, 2015 05:16 PM

Love this. Thank you, Jim.

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