(See 3 paragraphs down ) Best way to find Video is by year in list to left or by name at bottom of same list.
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Dear Daddy,
Tonight Jessie and I had the best time watching family videos, and we kept sending snippets to Katie in Denver. We laughed and cried so much. It was just incredible to see the videos of the children so young.
It was so heart-warming to see all the love for these children, and I especially loved seeing how attentive, loving, and generally wonderful you were with each of them. You are just adorable in these home movies interacting with them.
I love you so much and appreciate your visits during those years and your sweet love for these amazing children. Thanks for always remembering to videotape. Thanks for your incredible organization of smugmug photos and videos. This is such a monumental gift to our family.
I am including Gabe so he has access to these precious videos as well. It is so heart-warming to see Martha, Gustav, and Hazie in that special Christmas video; and it was great to see Martha in the videos taken in the weeks following the twins' birth as well.
All of it, just amazing. Thanks so much.
Love,
Jules
Sent from my iPhone
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| Subject: | Re: our Movie Handbook 1937-20xx (Open): 1986 1991 1992 1995 1996 Packa Sally Twins Christopher Jules Granddad Hazel Buz Christmas Gabe, Fran, Gus and Martha, etc Misc |
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On Jul 18, 2015, at 9:09 AM, donwrote:
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Above is the link to the video I sent up to Youtube. It is embedded on Our Movie Blog.
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> Check it out and let me know for sure if it does not play the right way.
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> I have checked it on iPad and PC and seems to work ok.
> you can Click on it to make it full screen
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> Lots of other similar movies on Our Movie Handbook. Here is link to how it and it works:
> http://ourmoviehandbook.blogspot.com/
> Remember I gave all the family dvd's of Our Movie Handbook eleven years ago in Wilmington as Christmas presents, and I have added a few more videos since then. If you have more to add, let's work on them. As always, let me know if any need editing or removal
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> love,
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Our Movie Handbook (introduction)
Best way to find Video is by year in list to left or by name at bottom of same list.
(Don, use this link as original and copy to separate Introduction Page on first line above at times. Also change date to keep it first)
1954 to 2004 +/- Our Movie Handbook Academy Award Winners:Hazel and Viola, Frances, Don, Julie, Buz, Sally. Supporting roles include Bob, Cinny, Robbie, Joan, Marianne, Smoke, Grannie Redding, WFR Jr., Milton, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Gabe, Gus, Martha, Christopher, Katie, Jessie, Jim, Jack, Logan, and others. Merry Christmas to all December 25, 2004 Wilmington, NC
# = videos not included in the 2004 "Our Movie Handbook" or DVDs. And,obviously, after 2004 not on original, but I have not marked them.
from 2004 on: various videos since the Handbook was printed . . send me Videos you want here as time goes by. don 11'5'2014 A few examples below:
from 2004 on: various videos since the Handbook was printed . . send me Videos you want here as time goes by. don 11'5'2014 A few examples below:
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1954 (1954-1974)(8mm)
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1989.12 (1989-1990)
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1991 (1991-1996)
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1996 (June)
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1985
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1997
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1986
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1998
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1987(1987-1988)
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2004
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1989.05
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2005
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Coming "Soon" - Digital still pictures 1996 - 2000’s, get yours in asap!
It took over 50 (ooops, now 60) years to put this Internet project together. There are many happy moments here, and Sally was on target Thanksgiving of 2004 when she said she was thankful for seeing some of first of the DVDs. As
with most families we have our share of problems and disagreements, but each time I edit or view the DVDs, I am thankful and encouraged as I see many happy moments we have shared. I hope the DVD’s give you, as they do me, a sense of family, loyalty, stability, inspiration, and love. For me, it has been a labor of love for my family. Bless you all, I love you.
Notes about all this (for DVDs , have not reworded (much) for Web, dsr 2010.10.26)
1. The disks are organized by year and contents listed by year, section, and chapter and summarized in the Our Movie Handbook. Some disks are a little out of sync with the wrong years inserted, but we have tried our best to make it chronological. On the disk will be the main sections, and the sections are divided into chapters; you might see Chapter breaks on a computer but not on a DVD/tv setup. I have written the “chapter names” under the Sections in the Handbook.
2. Copies are assigned as follows, please check to be sure you have the correct copy number:
o #1 Don (Original)
o #2 Fran
o #3 Julie
o #4 Buz
o #5 Sally
3. I have not tested all the disks; if you have any bad ones, let me know and I will get you a good one.
4. Ages are listed in the Handbook , for example, for Buz (15) meaning Buz was estimated to be 15 at the time of the pictures. If a Chapter was a (2x) or (3x) beside it, it means the particular scene is 2 or 3 times longer than usual. Usually chapters are 5 minutes, but some of the early years are done with 10 minute chapters. Please let me know if you want more descriptions added as I would welcome the help.
5. The first pictures here are from 1955 of Don playing football and were taken by Don’s Dad (WFR, Jr) using Uncle John’s camera. I never will forget the thrill of waiting for the mail to come to get the pictures back and then being able to see myself using the projector, a white sheet , and a dark room. It was magic in the days before TV and DVD’s. I appreciated Dad doing that for me. I have seen some pictures Uncle John took in 1948 of Grand Dad Redding (Wfr, Sr), and I hope some day to find them.
6. Mom and Dad gave us an 8mm camera and projector sometime around 1957, perhaps as a wedding or Christmas present. I began taking pictures and some of the early ones from Chapel Hill, Victory Village, Silent Sam, UNC 50 Duke 0 were taken with that camera. We lived in Victory Village for my Senior and MBA year - V V apartments were the old “barracks” built for returning World War II veterans. Rent was $25 a month with heat and water. We lived in Carrboro (rent $75, which Dad paid) the first 6 months after our wedding, then V V for the for the last 1 1/2 years in Chapel Hill.
7. I continued taking 8MM moving pictures through the years. One summer, brother Frank broke my viewfinder and that lead to several years with pictures cutting off the heads of those I photographed! I also bought an 8 MM Super camera and some of the pictures are with it.
8. I used the 8 MM up until about 1982 when I acquired a black and white video camera and my first VCR. In about 1989 I bought from Sears my first color video camera. Some of the pictures are from Julie’s 1989 Wedding Present of a Panasonic Video Camera.
9. In 1998 I bought a Casio C150 digital still camera in anticipation of my trip to Alaska, and movies took a back seat. By then the Sears camera had been repaired several times and was not longer functional. It actually died on my visit to see Julie in California in the late 1980’s though additional repairs gave me a few more pictures over those years.
10. In 2003 I bought my Nikon 4500 digital camera and in early 2004 bought a Canon ZR 80 Digital Video Camera; the first pictures with the Canon aree of the trip with Sally’s family to Boone mountains for a few days in June of 2004.
11. I spliced many of the 5 minute 8 mm reels onto much larger 8mm reels perhaps of 30 minutes and years later had them converted to VHS Video tape. I still have some of the original 8 MM films, but I cannot find projectors for them. Buz also converted some 8 MM to VHS for us, of later ones and ones I had originally missed.
12. For Christmas 2004, I wanted to put all the video tapes onto DVDs. It is one minute to one minute to copy the tapes to DVD (or 6 hours for 6 hours of video tape); duplication of the copies of the DVDs is faster, but it still took about 30 minutes each; there were problems with some discs not writing. There are about eleven disks of between 6 hours and 27 Minutes (1985 of Vi’s birthday party is the 27 minute one).
13. Sally’s Scrapbook venture helped us record our events, and that is a wonderful technique. I encourage all of us to save our printed photos this way and other ways. In the next edition of these “Academy Awards” we will prepare DVDs of many of our digital photos. Presently I have over 190,000 digital pictures (not just family) so we will need some form of index and editing to organize in a way of easy access. If you have pictures you want scanned in to the project, get them to me.
14. It took more than 50 (now 60) years to put this DVD/Internet project together. There are many happy moments here, and Sally was on target Thanksgiving of 2004 when she said she was thankful for seeing some of first of the DVDs. As with most families we have our share of problems and disagreements, but each time I edit or view the DVDs, I am thankful and encouraged as I see many happy moments we have shared. I hope the DVDs give you, as they do me, a sense of family, loyalty, stability, inspiration, and love. For me, it has been a labor of love for my family. Bless you all, I love you.
15. Written 08/11/2007: I found I did not have copies of all DVDs on my computer so I have copied the missing ones there – to the Vista 7750n computer. Later I will back up to one of the USB drives. Also I made Linda a set. Further, I have placed the small inserts into the holder. I changed the name from dsrmovies… to Our Movie Handbook.doc
16. 20120514. As time passes the technology improves and I am thankful better programsl speed up the process of getting all of the videos into mp4 and onto the Internet.
17. 20120601 est. Found that YouTube could do longer videos and got their ok. Will use it or Vimeo from now on (and eliminate direct links to my web sites, mainly for avi files).YouTube is free and wonderful. I do not put them on with search engines capable of finding, only folks with the link. I don't like limiting to just folks with passwords as that is a royal hassle. Let me know however if you see something needing removal or editing. thanks.
18. 20120825 I primarily use Smugmug for Videos under 20 minutes. Vimeo and YouTube do the longer ones.
16. 20120514. As time passes the technology improves and I am thankful better programsl speed up the process of getting all of the videos into mp4 and onto the Internet.
17. 20120601 est. Found that YouTube could do longer videos and got their ok. Will use it or Vimeo from now on (and eliminate direct links to my web sites, mainly for avi files).YouTube is free and wonderful. I do not put them on with search engines capable of finding, only folks with the link. I don't like limiting to just folks with passwords as that is a royal hassle. Let me know however if you see something needing removal or editing. thanks.
18. 20120825 I primarily use Smugmug for Videos under 20 minutes. Vimeo and YouTube do the longer ones.
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