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Happy Tuesday! Not able to post any of my projects I’ve shot in the last little while due to publication conflicts etc. I’m left with a random little project I took upon last weekend. Renting a film projector and watching all of our old family reel to reel films. Most were shot between 1967-1975 ……. I was in the later part of those years, thank you very much! Does your family have any cool old films from when you were a kid? …… um or any VHS tapes for you, younger generations??

Just to end this off I thought I would share a small clip of my older brother crawling around. The quality is ……like a film should look like from 1967. I love it!

GALIANO ISLAND TRIP 1967

13 Responses to “Reel to reel”

  1. So cool! Your family seems really good at preserving memories…no wonder you are a photographer! ;) We had tons of slides, from close to the same period. I made a few appearances as a baby. ;) The quality is not the greatest, but I’m glad we had them converted to digital files.

    • Tracey Ayton says:

      We’re working on getting them converted but we keep getting a ridiculous quote. If you know of anyone, please send their contact my way.

      • It was outrageously expensive to convert the slides and that was about 5 years ago (my brother had it done in Edmonton)…the only thing that made it possible was that us three kids split the cost. (Even then $$$) I hope you can find someone reasonable.

  2. Your post & the film of your brother bring back a lot of good childhood memories :-) Every year on Christmas morning, my dad would set up his movie camera in the living room while my brother and I waited VERY impatiently at the top of the stairs. When the bright light from the camera lit up the staircase, we knew it was time to make our mad dash down the stairs and to the Christmas tree :-)

  3. How fun! I would love to play around with that kind of movie producing:). All of my home videos were the old cassette 80`s style. I`m Excited to see what shoots of yours are waiting to be piblished.

  4. Ashli says:

    That’s so cool!!! I wish I had old family videos. My dad taped over our only one when I was 10 with Weekend at Berney’s!
    haha
    Great photos . . . as always!
    Ashli

  5. Oh my goodness!!! That sounds like the bset weekend movie watching ever. I’ve been dying to watch our family films from my childhood, they are all on VHS tapes and disintegrating so my family hasn’t watched them in years in hopes of carefully copying what we can before they are toast!! I hope we eventually get on that, cause those kind of memories are priceless aren’t they??

    Nancy xo

  6. koralee says:

    What fun!!! And just look at those blue reels…pure joy.
    I am such a colour nut….I wish we had some of those old movies hanging around….must ask my dad because I just know he has some somewhere. Hugs for a great week. xo

  7. We had our memories on film just like this! As soon as I heard the sound of the projector it took me waaaay back ;-) Criminal that it costs so much to transfer over… I hope you find somewhere that is more reasonable, because it’s so nice to have these moments at your fingertips. I’ll have to ask my Dad whatever happened to our old films…

  8. That is fabulous! We don’t have video of any kind from when I was a kid… I would have LOVED to have these to reminisce over!

  9. What fun! I have one VHS from my fourth birthday. I’ve been wanting to watch it for old times sake. I think I might just have to do this!

  10. Love this!! My dad only ever kept slides. We have no pictures to this day and he doesn’t let anybody touch them (heaven forbid we look at them and chance a fingerprint) I have visions of breaking into his home and stealing bins and bins of slides so that I can see my childhood :)

  11. What a great way to pass the time. We have a few VHS tapes of us as little ones which I have been dying to watch but our VHS machine died at the turn of the century! I got an enormous quote to get them transferred to DVD (£30 an hour!!!!) so I figured it might just be cheaper to buy a VHS machine off Ebay!

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