Wander project the last 11 pictures from my cellular phone…

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1. I think I’d like to spend the few years I have left doing something other than scanning my photos. I think I’ll leave them to my nephews. But I will label the backs. I would like to convert the movies a cousin took back in the 1950’s and 60’s of our family, but even more than that I’d like to convert the movies she took back in the 30’s and 40’s when she first came to California. Those have historical value, even though they all lack sound. Just not sure I can afford to spend the money to do it.

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   • It is really expensive to convert the old video. The oldest ones I have are 1948,.

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     • Mine are from very early movie cameras. My Cousin Edna was about the same age as my dad’s mother, whose actual cousin she was. She always made the movies. The early ones, taken when she got out of college much have been from the 1930’s, since early consumer movie cameras weren’t made until 1923. I would not surprise me if she bought one not too long after they were available. I know the early ones that preceded my time on earth were very shaky when played back. Later ones were a great improvement.

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       • My grandfather got a color home movie camera around 1948. I still have his Kodak projector and his Kodak Box Camera (remember those?). The projector still works but I haven’t played the movies on it since I converted them!

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         • My Cousin Edna’s roommate, whom we called Aunt Lucile, had been her college roommate. Neither married so they bought a house together. Aunt Lucile gave me a box camera as my first camera. She took most of the still photos for our family, and she was the one with a dark room. I inherited the movies and projector that Cousin Edna owned. My brother has the projector, and I also may have passed the movies on to him.