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Originally Posted by Norm K
I'm working on convincing myself to spend the $400 so I can have something more archival than the old 8mm film. I'm concerned the cellulose, of similar age to yours (mid-50s through early 70s) might have turned too brittle to load and run without crumbling, but it's not getting any fresher so I might as well give it a shot.
If it works I might consider doing it for others or even renting the machine to those who'd like to give it a go it themselves. I'd probably offer either the service or the machine for a very nominal charge, as helping people to resurrect long-lost memories would be pretty cool.
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I figure once I have all my stuff scanned, I will sell the scanner.
It is a process that is not bad at all if you can set it up next to you as you do other things. With 3 inch reels it is stop every 45 minutes. There is some dust and "stuff" that ends up on the light source and the film guides that I clean off after every one. Just a Q-tip and some film cleaner and it is clean.
I am scanning a movie I had never seen before, and did not know my parents had. Back when we moved to Hawaii the first time in 1959 Hawaii was not yet a state. My parents were 29, and really got into Polynesian dancing, and Hula. They evidently had a group of people that all dressed up in grass skirts, and the men in the Polynesian style wraps.
Nothing to wild, just a lot of hips wiggling from Hula and Tahitian dancing.
The big celebration of statehood is one of my early memories.