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Originally Posted by cstreit
There are services that will do this for you. Perhaps it would be less than $400
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All the services charge by the foot. I looked into that, and they would be way more expensive, and I have to ship my movies to them. One of my relatives had their entire collection of home moves lost forever in the mail. Poof Gone.
The 7 inch reel of my parents wedding, and early days before I was born is 70+ years old. When I opened the can it has a sharp smell of vinegar and fixer, and the film is curling and very brittle. I broke off a 18 inch long piece of it just trying to thread it into the scanner. It will not last much longer.
It is wonderful to see my grandparents smiling and in their 50s at the wedding. I just saw my dad's graduation ceremony from Pilot school and getting his wings.
To have total control of the process is way better than hoping some service bureau will take care of my family history. I have uploaded one short 3:15 movie of my cousins at the family picnic, and then the zoo. It it is on YouTube now. I will upload the rest to YouTube as I get them done. No one but the family will ever care, but to see my childhood in "living color" is just cool.
If any of you have home 8mm movies get them converted to HD and in a safe place, they will not last much longer. My mom had some of these converted to VHS decades ago. Those VHS tapes are kinda hard to watch with no VCR, and they are in low def anyway. This is way better.