Yesterday evening I received, at long last, the results of the home movies, slides, and videos I sent out for digitization. It took about twelve weeks—nearly a month longer than I expected.
The digitization company, Legacy Media Productions, did a good job. There were some pleasant surprises and a few disappointments. Among the pleasant surprises was the considerable amount of footage from my parents’ honeymoon in Canada and their trip to Mexico in the 1940s after World War II.
Among the disappointments were the photographic dry plates. They were, indeed, from my dad’s trip to Europe in 1938. Sadly, there were no candids among them.
The video above is one of the joys. It’s a very brief clip from my parents’ wedding, more than 70 years ago. I don’t know who the infant in the few frames at the end of the clip is. I’m still trying to master the editing tools I have and don’t quite have the hang of precision editing.
Please leave feedback in the comments on whether you can view the clip and what sort of device you’re using. This is a learning process.
I plan to keep this post at the top for the rest of the day.
No problems seeing the video here, using Chrome on Windows 10.
What a great video! Your mother was stunningly beautiful.
Plays fine when using Windows Phone 8.1’s built in video viewer and when using the firefox 50.1 on linux.
She had a lot of pizzazz. Show biz.
It’s great to see her again as she was in my earliest memories. I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it but I have a sort of mental quirk in that in my mind’s eye I always see people as they were in my earliest memories of them. Even when she was in her late 80s, that’s how I always saw her.
My dad was notorious for taking embarrassing candids and there are some very funny moments captured which I suspect I won’t be making public out of concern for the subjects’ feelings. My wife pointed out one in particular in which my mom was attempting to wrangle two of my younger siblings and clearly frustrated with my dad’s letting the camera roll.
Worked fine on Chrome running on whatever we’re calling the latest Mac OS.
And Andy’s right, your mom was a babe.