Anyone Editing home video please read

[Nelson37]

I recently converted some old 1940's video, and was thinking about what might have been edited out if it had been easy back then. Many shots which were not of family or of good quality, showed such things as the cars, clothing styles, prices in store windows, which at the time would have seemed meaningless but really add some dramatic impact today.

Signs over drinking fountains (or the lack thereof), some shots contained the only moving pictures known to exist of some family friends and distant relations, shots of buildings and monuments which no longer exist, one in particular of a hotel I knew only as a fleabag dump but which had been a place where Presidents dined. It is one thing to be told about it, but to see it in its glory really had an impact. Wooden bumpers on cars, stoves, refrigerators, almost every minute had some everyday item which really made us go "WOW".

By all means edit for content and impact, but also make a full and complete copy. Then you can hear "grandad, why didn't you wear your PC on your wrist back then?" "You mean your car stayed on the ground ALL the time?" "Why couldn't you talk to the guy on the TV?"

[Mirror_Image]

Old footage is great! There's a bunch of old films (not movies, just PSAs and whatnot) at http://webdev.archive.org/movies/movies.php

Old commercials are very entertaining.

Then you can hear "grandad, why didn't you wear your PC on your wrist back then?" "You mean your car stayed on the ground ALL the time?" "Why couldn't you talk to the guy on the TV?"

Then Grandpa can say "Hmmph, back when I was your age, I knew about things like the War of the Spanish Succession, which happened nearly 300 years before I was born. They taught us history back in those days. The gub'mint schools must have stopped teaching you unfortunate kids any History at all!

"I suppose that's not surprising, as they were already pretty shabby excuses for schools back at the start of the 21st century, cranking out Epsilon Semi-morons that thought that the word "niggardly" was a racist slur, when it has no such meaning, and who also thought the car-crash death of some lame, drunken slut with an over-blown personality cult was a more significant event than the death of Queen Victoria".

[therick]

whoa, you need to calm down...you want old movies...check THIS site out...an absolutely HUGE selection...

http://www.archive.org/movies/

My Favorite is - Narcotics- Pit of Despair...... :P

[Mirror_Image]

Well, you know old guys, they sometimes just rail on and on, about things like how they took the ferry over to Shelbyville...

...which they called Morganville in those days - I needed a new heel for my shoe...

p.s. Those old commercials are good to start out a VCD of, say, Sergeant York; it really sets the time period up for the movie a little better.

[therick]

They have some commercials, but the best of what they have are the old educational videos. Japan: Our Enenmy in the East...and Cheating: What is Does to YOU

just cracks me up...