Aw, what an awesome story about your mom, Rob! We had a little portable movie camera, which we took to Disneyland/Universal Studios in 1976 (I remember this as it was the Bicentennial, so much Yankee Doodle Dandy - we Canadians cheered for the British, lol). We have a reel of film somewhere of my dad being an extra on "Emergency!" filmed on the lot at Universal.
My brother and I bought my parents a video camera (which held a VHS tape in it) for my parents, and it was $900 each, a LOT of money in 1992 for someone (me) working in retail, close to a month's pay.
I remember when we rented a camcorder from the local tape rental place, for some life milestone in the family. Before that my grandad shot silent ones on and old timey home movie camera.
Did anyone ever watch home movies? I think i remember doing it once.
There were a lot of things we recorded that never got watched again like Fourth of July firework displays, but the Christmas and family videos get watched from time to time now. Funny how a chunk of time turns seemingly worthless recordings into cherished media.
Aw, what an awesome story about your mom, Rob! We had a little portable movie camera, which we took to Disneyland/Universal Studios in 1976 (I remember this as it was the Bicentennial, so much Yankee Doodle Dandy - we Canadians cheered for the British, lol). We have a reel of film somewhere of my dad being an extra on "Emergency!" filmed on the lot at Universal.
My brother and I bought my parents a video camera (which held a VHS tape in it) for my parents, and it was $900 each, a LOT of money in 1992 for someone (me) working in retail, close to a month's pay.
I remember when we rented a camcorder from the local tape rental place, for some life milestone in the family. Before that my grandad shot silent ones on and old timey home movie camera.
Did anyone ever watch home movies? I think i remember doing it once.
There were a lot of things we recorded that never got watched again like Fourth of July firework displays, but the Christmas and family videos get watched from time to time now. Funny how a chunk of time turns seemingly worthless recordings into cherished media.
The more my memories fade, it’s like experiencing that stuff again for the first time.
What's super weird is when you watch one and realize either your memories have changed, or you remembered it wrong all along.
Right? Like your brain just fills in the potholes with whatever for the sake of continuity I guess?
Some real *Matrix* style business that’s.