At least to me. While searching for something else in the attic of my fathers house I came across a small metal tool box size box. When opened it revealed dozens of 8mm home movies my mother and father had taken starting in the 1950s and ending in the early 60s. In my mothers handwriteing each box was labled with the event being filmed.......my 1st brithday, Chistmases starting in 1958 and for several years following, several family get togethers, my brothers 1st birthday,my great grandfathers birthday and many many more. I immediately went to work searching for a working 8mm projector. As luck would have it-my aunt had one that she let me borrow.....we hung a sheet on the wall and I grabed a film at random and finally figured out how to thread the film though the projector.The lights were turned off and the film rolled.
The first image to appear was a beautiful young woman in her 20s dressed in her Easter finest complete with Easter bonnet...... my mother. The camera then panned to 2 young boys proudly dressed in their Easter best and showing off their Easter baskets.....my brother Wayne and myself on Easter day 1961. No footage of my father in this one as he was behind the camera....but he is in many of the others films along with both sets of my grandparents,my great grandfather,aunts,uncles,cousins and folks I don't know.
The film is deteriorating and brittle. I am going to try to find someone to put it on to dvd but really don't know where to start looking or have any idea how to do this myself. Anyone have any ideas or have done anything similar to this before? I really want to get this done.
The first image to appear was a beautiful young woman in her 20s dressed in her Easter finest complete with Easter bonnet...... my mother. The camera then panned to 2 young boys proudly dressed in their Easter best and showing off their Easter baskets.....my brother Wayne and myself on Easter day 1961. No footage of my father in this one as he was behind the camera....but he is in many of the others films along with both sets of my grandparents,my great grandfather,aunts,uncles,cousins and folks I don't know.
The film is deteriorating and brittle. I am going to try to find someone to put it on to dvd but really don't know where to start looking or have any idea how to do this myself. Anyone have any ideas or have done anything similar to this before? I really want to get this done.
