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From: "Merryl Wells" <>
Subject: Fw: [SoG] film conversion
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:38:57 -0600


Hi, the below email to the list did not seem to arrive so have re-sent in
case it is still relevant.

From
Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds.
E-Mail:
GOONS Mem. No. 1757. Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock;
Mem. of Wells Assn. (GOONS Reg.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Merryl Wells" <>
To: <>
Sent: 27 July 2004 4:28 AM
Subject: Re: [SoG] film conversion


>
> Quite a long time ago (maybe ten years) my 'step-mother' gave me around 30
> one minute long cine films my father had taken when I was a child, most
> including me in 1950's. I tried looking at them with the original
projector
> which was hopeless as I had to hold a small light bulb into the machine
> whilst trying to turn the film with the other hand and it got very hot
that
> I was scared I'd burn the film. I found an advert in the local paper for
> converting them to video and was charged £100 for three copies. Probably
> not expensive as the films were not on spools, just in little brown
> envelopes or wrapped in tissue paper, and I couldn't tell which way round
> they were.
>
> I took a very long time trying to work out what they were of by holding
them
> up to the light, making notes and then trying to number them into some
kind
> of date order to put onto the video.
>
> In view of the state of them the person did a very good job, but did lose
> part of each film because of having to thread them onto a spool first and
I
> did get a couple in the wrong date order. The only way that they could
have
> been done better would have been to do a 'draft' video, re-number them,
and
> then splice them into one long film with space between each for a verbal
> explanation of who was who and where/when it was likely to have been
taken.
>
> Must admit that now the films are just as they were returned to me in a
> shoe-box, maybe in a wardrobe, and maybe with my original notes, whilst
the
> videos are in the sideboard. I had hoped one cousin from each side of my
> family would have been sufficiently interested to have had a copy, but I
> guess they didn't look upon them as being of personal or historical
> interest, even though they included their parents and other cousins and
our
> grandparents plus great-aunts on the GULLICK side of the family and a
> great-uncle on the BAWTREE side.
>
> Hope my experience helps you to decide how to get yours converted. Maybe
> doing it yourself would produce the best end results.
>
>
> From
> Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds.
> E-Mail:
> GOONS Mem. No. 1757. Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock;
> Mem. of Wells Assn. (GOONS Reg.)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "paul mac" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: 26 July 2004 20:07 PM
> Subject: [SoG] film conversion
>
>
> >
> > I hope to get some old cine film converted to video tape and/or DVD.
> >
> > Has anyone any experience of this or recommedations please.
> >
> > Paul McKenzie
> >
> > if replying off-list: (remove dummy)
> >
> >
>

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