Christopher 1958-60
As I have mentioned in the past, brother Ken had a bunch of old 8mm home movies he and I shot starting in 1958 or 59. I went through them and selected an assortment to be converted to digital format. The company I chose to do this was DVD Arizona in Scottsdale. Cost was very reasonable and the results are excellent. I received the films back this week with two DVD's and an AVI file on a USB hard drive I sent down with the order. Of course the hard part now is to edit this all down into chunks and get it posted. This is the first "episode." Remember, there is no sound (I may play with adding naration and music later), some of the scenes are scratchy and it is all pretty choppy, but this was shot by a couple of kids nearly 50 years ago.
For the family: The woman walking on the dirt road, with the gray hair is my mother. I think this is in the summer of 1960 so that would be before she had her surgery and subsequently died. The woman fiddling with the zipper on the back of her slacks is a very young Posty! Ken, my brother, is the kid with big ears. I'm the funny looking guy with the red hunting cap and catching the trout. The dogs were named Spotty and Blackie, very original. Didn't keep the snake long enough to give it a name!
Enjoy. More coming.