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It sure does! The next steps is to track down my grandfathers 8mm home movie collection. We don't know who ended up with it.
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Jason,
I'm curious if your grandfather shot sound film. Being that you have a sound projector, that's a pretty good indication.
When I was a teenager back in the 70s and 80s, I shot Super-8, but only silent. Nobody I knew shot sound back then: it was "unusual to rare".
I have a couple of other people's amateur sound films (e-Bay), and they've held up just fine. If your grandfather's films are sound and have been properly stored, this could be a huge gift to you!
We have a friend in Brooklyn whose uncle shot a lot of Kodachrome at family events back into the 1960s. He'd splice them together onto 400 foot reels and stored them in a closet. When she inherited his brownstone, our friend discovered the box of reels in excellent condition. Every so often she visits us and brings a reel out: spends some time with her family and her own childhood.
Classically, when a home burns down, as long as everyone makes it out unharmed, the one thing people regret losing the most is their pictures: they matter a lot!Comment
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The Elmo I'm using was my dad's, different setup than my grandfather had. He had his own. All our family films have sound so far. I know my grandad did sound as well because I recall him having us all say Happy New Years and the year it was for the recording every year at dinner. Even though I was quite young, I recall quite vividly. The dozen or so films I've watched so far all held up pretty good. I think some could use cleaning though. I'd really like to find a copy of the Jungle Book. We used to borrow it from the library every year when I was a kid.Comment
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