{"id":570,"date":"2009-12-19T13:02:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T18:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2018-04-07T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T21:06:01","slug":"walton-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/19\/walton-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Walton Home Movie Project is Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps fittingly, I&#8217;ve completed the conversion of Uncle Walt&#8217;s old 8mm home movie collection onto DVDs in time for Christmas.\u00a0 The collection is large, nearly 6.5 hours of movies filling 5 DVDs.\u00a0 The first two sets of DVDs were shipped to Carol Zellmer and her daughter Kirsten this past Thursday.\u00a0 I&#8217;m currently duplicating sets for mom, Fred and Al.\u00a0 The project began March 14, 2009, and took approximately 150 hours to capture, convert, edit and arrange.\u00a0 I&#8217;m glad this little task is behind me.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-571\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Walton-Movies-Resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-571\" title=\"Walton Movies Resized\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.50.23\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/Walton-Movies-Resized-200x150.jpg\" alt=\"Just a few of the 104 reels\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just a few of the 104 reels<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The collection spans the years 1958 through 1981.\u00a0 It&#8217;s great to see Detroit in those days, with a view of the pre-Renaissance Center skyline from the Bob-Lo boat.\u00a0 My favorite scenes are the holiday gatherings, which bring back memories of Uncle Harold, Uncle Art, Aunt Betty, and Great-Grandma Kling.<\/p>\n<p>Let me know if you&#8217;re interested in a set of these DVDs.\u00a0 Uncle Walt and Aunt Eleanor will always be a part of my Christmas celebrations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps fittingly, I&#8217;ve completed the conversion of Uncle Walt&#8217;s old 8mm home movie collection onto DVDs in time for Christmas.\u00a0 The collection is large, nearly 6.5 hours of movies filling &hellip; <\/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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-familyandfriends","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4357,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/4357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forths.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}