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Posted by Jim Schrader (Member # 9) on 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/

Posted by Dave Groves (Member # 4685) on 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.

Posted by Dominique De Bast (Member # 3798) on 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.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on 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.

Posted by Joe Caruso (Member # 11) on 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

Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on August 01, 2015, 05:55 PM:

Simply brilliant!

Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on 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.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on 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.

Posted by Mark Todd (Member # 96) on 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.

Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on August 04, 2015, 05:16 PM:

Love this. Thank you, Jim.

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