TOPIC: Stepping back in time...

well, this is going to be a bit to explain but...

we have an old home movie that is on 16mm film, that is silent.

we also have a 16mm projector...

problem is, the film is about 40 or 50 years old and the drive system on the projector chewed up the leader of the film.

so I kept to monkeying around and discovered....I could advance the film one frame at a time with little bit of "adjustments to the projector.

seeing I could get...one frame, I now what makes "WMM" work and my gif maker work, and all they use is framesets...soooooooooo

take one picture, and advance the film...take a picture advance the film....

this is 1940 something, Rochester and it is a compilation of 128 frames out of 300 feet which should work out to be about...5 minutes of memory's.

here is a sample

aaawww,Houston, We have a problem.

yea, I made the post...my system had a clich, didn't think it even posted so I up loaded it into youtube...with a long winded explanation of what I am doing....then, the dogs and a bowl of cereal later....it's there now.

Turned out pretty good for haveing to do it one frame at a time, I like.

well thanks, you can see in some of the frames just how fragile the film is and that so far is just 10 sec's of a 5 minute film.

the sad part is the 16mm Singer instaload XL projector is basically hosed now it been "modified", but I am getting more of the frames than the every-other-four like I was getting.

per min it will be 776 frames, so far that was 128 frames, because I am using such a large jpeg and what I have learned about this, is to brake the film down into parts then take the parts or segways and join them together to make a whole.

looking at it as being possibly 3,880 frames seems a little scary, but think of it as just complete a segways it not that bad, but I know in one sitting 120, 150 frames is a work out.

as I make a segway I will post it, sure someone out there is going kind want to get real close to see some of the cars in this film.

well, everything up to...a point, is Dede wedding, except the wedding itself, being told she got married in her 20's, she was born in 1915 so we are looking back to ...1935ish "somewhere"

not even close to completion just got to throwing the rice as they are coming out...

one hell of a job mark..your going to make some people quite happy. ron