Tom & Nan Dot Com

Well, I got word from my brother and he seems impressed with the movie that I posted last month.  I need to recapture all of the film because I captured it as regular 8mm and it’s actually Super 8mm.  The sprocket holes in the film are smaller.

I had a hard drive failure over the weekend and had to replace the drive in my primary machine, fortunately I didn’t lose anything.  In an attempt to move away from pay-for operating systems like Windows, I’m giving Ubuntu Linux a serious try.  I loaded it up on this maching and so far I’ve gone 5 days without having any problems trying to find a piece of software to do what I would do on my windows machine (except the video editor).  Will follow up as time permits.

We bought a new game for the Wii called Wii Sports Resort.  Lots of fun… We’ve had what seems like ALL of Chris’ friends over almost every night.  It’s actually fun having them all around.

For now, that’s about it… I wanted to test out a new theme that I found on the WordPress themes site.

Turn your sound DOWN!,  Movie projectors make bad noises…

This one is choppy and not optimized… but it’s a family movie my grandparents made when I was about 3 years old…  This film was shot in 1968 in New York and in California.  My brother Sal is in the beginning of the film,  He’s the baby, and I’m the blonde kid.  Both of my parents and grandparents are in this film, my Great-Uncle Frank and Great-Aunt Alma, my Great-Uncle Joe and other Great Aunts and Uncles who I don’t recognize after 41 years.

I remember the trip across the country in a blue Volkswagen, and I remember riding on the forks of a forklift in an open wooden bin, one used to ship peaches from the orchards.  I don’t remember much else.

The transfer is a little choppy and I will try to capture a smaller version so that it isn’t so choppy… but I hope my brother gets a chance to see it.