Converting Uncle Walt’s old 8mm home movies has been a wonderful, albeit silent, peek at the past.\u00a0 I’ve made some progress lately and am now roughly halfway through the reels.\u00a0 I estimate that it will take another month to complete the conversions from 8mm tape.\u00a0\u00a0 Uncle Walt’s collection is truly a goldmine of family memories, and it will be wonderful to assemble the DVDs when the conversions are complete.<\/p>\n
One thing that struck me while reviewing “Thanksgiving, 1963”<\/em> was that this movie was taken only 6 days after President Kennedy’s assassination, 3 days following his globally televised funeral.\u00a0 Looking at the smiling family faces, you’d never realize that an insecure nation was mourning.\u00a0 It was also the first time I recall ever seeing myself, here at 6 months,\u00a0 in a movie younger than age 2.<\/p>\n I’ll try to post occasional updates from Uncle Walt’s movie collection as progress is made.<\/p>\n [mediaplayer src=’http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress:443\/video\/1963-11-28%20Thanksgiving%20at%20Kling%20Home%20320×240.wmv’ autoLoad=0 thumb=’http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/November-28-1963-Thanksgiving-at-Kling-Home-Screenshot.jpg’ ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our family’s Thanksgiving Day celebration 3 days after Kennedy’s funeral<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyandfriends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4385,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/4385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}