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I was watching the wonderful "Mary Hopkin" today and her hit song from long ago, reminded me for some reason
film collecting as it stands today
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film collecting as it stands todayEnjoy...
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Ah yes, .....as the spool unwinds itself....Shorty -
Actually I think film collecting is doing better than the average person would ever guess. Way back around 2009 I got on this newfangled internet-thing and started asking the Big Questions. One of them was "When did Super-8 die out?" The answer: "It didn't." really surprised me! I had a camera I'd picked up at a rummage sale a few years earlier, and within a day I ordered a couple of rolls of Kodachrome and I was in the film business once again!
Not long afterwards, I discovered Derann and all of a sudden I did something I'd never imagined: I got sound!
My days in film before 2009 were a pretty pale shadow of what they've been ever since, for every film I owned back then I have at least ten now.
As I said: the average person would never guess, just because they never asked this particular Big Question. A friend of mine asked "Where do you get film?", and I answered "-Kodak". I hear "Nobody does that anymore." and I say "I go to a convention twice a year!".
Interesting: well into the era when we are supposed to be dressed in aluminum foil, driving flying cars and vacationing on the moon, you can still find good film equipment, there are still new prints available and film still has enough of a community to gather a crowd!
-We're not finished yet!
BTW: That's a great song, Graham. It means even more with the passage of time.Comment
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I do love the song, and she sang it so well, but listening to an 18 year old singing about her regrets "growing older" requires a LOT of suspension of disbelief! When I was her age the most idiotic decisions I was ever going to make were still a few years down the road!
-Too soon we grow old, too late we grow smart!
(Maybe they should have found a singer whose knees hurt!😊)
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So true Steve, at Conner final rugby game yesterday I was speaking to his coach plus he also was doing a lot of running around as yesterdays referee afterwards, and just happen to mention that Yvonne and I have now been married 43 years last week. The look on his face was like wow
. Yvonne reminded me about it last week, I had forgotten, that was a "BIG MISTAKE" on my part. 
The years pass so quickly you really have to make the most of each day, that's for sure.Comment
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Yeahhhhhhhhh!!!
My kid turned twenty the other day!
-called himself "old"!
I said "I have shirts that are older than you!"
The last couple of weeks I said "You're not going to be a teenager much longer! Go surfing! Hang out at the Malt Shop! Do SOMETHING like a teenager while you still have the time!".😁Comment
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I was 15 years old when this song was released...what happened...now 70, got a birthday card last January from a girl I went to school with and still sends a Christmas card every year from bonny Scotland. We are now all in that age bracket
but in saying that mentally not much has changed, still a wee bit nuts
Anyway Steve try keeping up with this.
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