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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted February 08, 2016 11:37 AM
I tried that, but my neighborhood has a thing about having a high intensity X-ray source next door!
-eh!, I got anti-lock brakes, I got electronic traction control, I got front wheel drive, and I know Newton's Laws by heart!
(Besides, there's hot cocoa at the house!)
-I suppose good manners mean I should post after I get home...
Edit: Home, safe and sound! [ February 08, 2016, 03:24 PM: Message edited by: Steve Klare ]
-------------------- All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted February 08, 2016 05:04 PM
Years ago if things got bad especially up in the mountains, I used to carry snow chains...very handy ..clunk..clunk...clunk... I once went on a bus trip with an intermediate school 11to 12year olds as a parent helper. Once we were at the start of the climb, the bus driver drove his inner rear wheels onto small wooden ramps, that made it easy to fit the chains onto the outer wheels, for the trip up the snow covered loose gravel road.
It was steep and slow going, but we got there safely, same for coming back down later on in the day "real slow". The kids were great and once I had got them sorted out on the beginners slope I disappeared up the main slope. Strangely none of the other parent helpers that wanted to come that day could ski, only me . At the end of the day we rounded them up, "found them all" for the trip home, they were everywhere on the slopes it was a good day out, up in the mountains.
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
Posts: 4001
From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted February 11, 2016 02:08 AM
Well folks I am soon going to embark on what could be an interesting project. I have offered to help sort out, what's what with many years worth of stored old films "old home movies" in both Standard and Super8 for the photographic crowd at the Heritage Park.
I have only just started looking at some of it, and to be honest its a bit sad, that these films have landed up here in the first place over many years, with no record being kept of there origin. Looking at the editor, you start to think, who are those people? are they still alive? etc. The Kodachrome Standard 8 films condition wise look great.
Anyway here are a couple of photos. The first is just part of the film collection, and then some screen shots of some Standard 8 film taken here in the South Island in "1965". Once I have more time I will see if I can track down the kids in the following screen shots, who would be if they are still alive, in there late 50s.
So folks don't ever let your precious "home movies" land up being forgotten like this lot has
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Andrew Woodcock
Film God
Posts: 7477
From: Manchester Uk
Registered: Aug 2012
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posted February 11, 2016 02:21 PM
We have the luxury most other people on the planet don't. We have a passion for projecting these things and an about to do so. Therefore we can therefore put them out there again, to the world at large.
In all these cases, there is a very strong possibility you can give their owners what THEY would want. Not the actual film but just a digital copy. No matter how rough the transfer, just to relive their memories no doubt.
Facebook really is the place for all of this long lost treasure for those willing to make the effort.
Just think how thrilled,no doubt, the original photographer would feel quite possibly,for these to find their way back down to the families again, no matter how many generations further on. [ February 11, 2016, 03:43 PM: Message edited by: Andrew Woodcock ]
-------------------- "C'mon Baggy..Get with the beat"
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