Preserving Home Movies

The Preservation Project blog is documenting Ashley Maynor’s efforts to digitize and preserve a stack of 79 home movies that her family owns.

Though the old labels gave me a rough idea of what was on each reel, I was hesitant to put the films through a projector to see what material was actually there. I feared that (a) I might further damage the film, or (b) that if mold had begun to grow on any of the film I might spread the contamination to the other reels and my Super 8 projector. Also, many of the reels were 8mm, and I did not have projector that would screen them. So, I began investigating a number of telecine machines and transfer houses that would be able to digitize my home movie collection.

(thanks to Camcorderinfo for the link)

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Author, photographer, and late-nighter Jeff Carlson writes for outlets such as Popular Photography, DPReview, Creative Pro, and others, and is a contributing editor for TidBITS. He is the author of Take Control of Your Digital Photos; The Photographer's Guide to Luminar AI, Take Control of Apple Watch, and Take Control of Your Digital Storage, among many other titles. View all posts by Jeff Carlson