This video was 46 years in the making

I found 4000 feet of old 8mm family movies. Learn how I scanned them.

Kodak Reels 8mm Film Digitizer

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Marlene Hielema
Calgary, AB Canada

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[briancarr]

Marvelous video Marlene, so heartwarming ❤

[LetsGoOutdoors]

This is too funny. While packing up for a move I came across some old 8 mm film. I had no idea what was on it, so when it came back from being converted to a digital format it turned out to be footage of me and my sister on the day we came home with our new parents as we were adopted in Calgary. Right around 1963. There is even footage of the Calgary Stampede pretty amazing stuff!

[bburnsey]

Very nice, and now it is easy to share as well as watch. I did something similar, but with cassette tapes of family stories from family elders. Time consuming, as it has to be done in real time. had to find a cassette player with an output to hook into a mixing panel, which i then routed in to my computer and recorded digitally.

[loushared]

Fantastic video Marlene. Nothing like a touch of nostalgia to warm the cockles of the heart 😍

[lumixographer]

Wonderful memories from another age!❤ Some farm scenes took me back to my childhood summers in Vermont on my great uncles farm. "Helping" bring in the hay was great fun, especially riding on top of the hay stack while holding onto a chain as my great uncle's team, Sally & Sam, picked up their pace to get back to ghe barn for wayer.😂👍

[jimorlando]

Thanks for showing. Have boxes of these, forgot about those rubber band film holder with the tab on them. Hula hoop on 8mm was a standard specially when the older folks tried it. Super funny when viewing time came.

[DaddyyCrab]

I’d say the camera man was top notch. Well done. 😎

[gordon]

Absolutely love this! The slight colour shifts and the odd choppy bits only add to the value! Well done! I didn’t realize that this technology was available to the consumer so another plus. Perhaps we may see some of the ‘earlier Marlene’ interspersed with some new skateboarding shots on occasion.

[markielinhart]

Smashing Marlene‼️Thanks for sharing. Respect✌️🇦🇺

[nmecredy]

Hi Marlene, thanks for this. I also have a huge box of my father's 8mm films but I also have MP4 files from DVDs from VHS tapes from the films... my parents videoed projections of all the films (you can hear them discussing on the soundtrack) in time before their projector broke. So I can see the films in very poor quality, but as you say that is part of the charm

[craigw.scribner]

Great video, Marlene! I just finished scanning 78 rolls of Super 8 and Regular 8 film from the early seventies--over fifty years old! I used one of the Wolverine clones ("Eyesen") which I got for $200.00 on sale from amazon. Other than the scanning resolution (mine does 1080), smaller view screen than the Kodak but the ability to connect to an external monitor while scanning (one feature the Kodak doesn't have) which mainly helped me adjust the framing, and, of course, the price, they are basically identical. So, I decided to give the Eyesen unit a try. I was very pleased with the quality of the scans, although I did run them through FCPX to make white balance and other adjustments. I am impressed with the skill of your camera operators, and of course your skateboarding prowess! Thanks for sharing these great memories with us!

[brianwhiteside]

More childhood skateboarding videos please. That was great

[TheHumanPalindrome]

What a lovely video! Thanks for sharing ♥️

[pbcreative]

Thanks for posting this, much appreciated! I have all the old family 8mm films and keep meaning to get them transferred to digital so everyone can see them and this was a good reminder! The quality of the scanner is much better than the old way of projecting films and filming them again with a video camera. Thanks once again 👍🙂

[EmilieT]

This is fantastic! I have some old films at home in France. I think the projector still works but what a great idea to digitalize them. Thank you for a great video!

[stuffstuffstuffyay]

wow RADICAL moves there on the board! Will have to show my husband, he is still skating at 51. Do you? If not, why not? haha thanks for sharing

[xaviergut]

This video is a treasure, Marlene, pure gold!
I have been watching this week 6 hours of very bad digitalised super 8 family videos of the 80' and 90' and now I know how to make a much better version of them.
Thank you very much!

[garypoole]

Great memories for you, and good quality for age of film🇬🇧

[lizhubbard]

A huge thank you for this video which influenced my decision to purchase a unit for myself. I am so glad I did, and that I took your advice to order direct from Kodak for big savings! It arrived in good time, with low-cost shipping just as you had said. But the best part is rediscovering all those lost memories -- faces and long-ago moments previously trapped in inaccessible media.. My family is so pleased with the results of just the first few films -- I clearly have many hours of scanning and editing ahead of me! So... Thank You!!

[Sotangy]

Wonderful. Loved watching those nostalgic memories of you and your family.