Your first Boat

TRB,
Great shots of the summer digs and your folks... Not to many families around where parents and sibling own boats together and ski together.. Hats off to your family for keeping the pa$$ion !!!

Thanks again for the cool pics..

Moj'

I think that's awesome Larry.

Still about 1000 others on this site. Would love to see all "your" first boats.

BKH

75,

Great stuff man! At my folks place dug through the albums and found and scanned some photos however there may be some other great stuff on 8mm, anybody have any ideas how to get these things converted to DVD? Is this a service you can get at a photo shop or Wal Mart, pops has some deal that is supposed to do it but it looks like it would take weeks to get through it all.

Thanks,

Q

Thanks for the kind words. I think there are video services that will convert old 8 or 16 mm movies to DVD. About ten years ago, my dad took all his dads (back to the 1930s) and all his (from 1946 to 1966) movies and bought a gizmo to convert them to VHS. There is over 6 hours worth. He then did the music and narration. Now that he is gone, its a real treasure having them and hearing his voice tell the stories.

Kurt, you arent thinking back far enough. Quinner and I weren't referring to 8mm videos but 8 mm film and the old movie projectors with the two reels. There is an extra step in there to project the film into a special box with lenses and a small screen with a video camera at the other end.       

Nautique2001 wrote: By the way, you haven't changed a bit!. What lake were you on?

Well, Maybe some things, a little bit.




Ken,

That Dazzle thing is what I got. Once you use it to complete the transfer, I would then go into Windows Movie Maker. Does the same stuff as far as editing and composing as the software that comes with the Dazzle, but I think the Windows program seems to be much faster and less cumbersome than the Pinnacle software. Have fun with it. I am.

Ken, that was Kayuta Lake up in central NY, near Utica.

PLBC wrote: Hey, when I was in grade school we watched some films on reels.

Love the cla$$ic driver's education films. Those were the days. Health cla$$ was a hoot as well. Uncontrolable laughter when the teacher would talk about certain organs. Remember that?

Ken

Spent the last couple days with my folks celebrating Christmas, today we watched hours of 8mm films, I just dropped off 5 reels of boats and skiing to be converted to dvd, dating back to the 50's including my first ski run, 1970, I was 6yrs old, great stuff!

Q

Larry: Those videos are totally awesome! Thanks for sharing. Wish I had some, my Dad looked just the same in the fifties when he was teaching me and my brother.

I spent an evening goin' thru old pics and now have some of mine. So I gotta get to wallyworld this weekend to get them scaned. Then I'll try to get them on here. What a great thread, BKH! Probably have to call ya for help Brian.

john

Flock of Seagulls in '92? Weren't you behind a few years there? haha

Nate

65 'cuda wrote: My boat is my first. Here's a link. I hope to give my kids all the great memories I keep hearing all of you remember fondly.

bkhallpa$$ wrote: Gotta love those old "Ski Belts." BKH

I don't think my dad loved 'em so much. You may have heard him say he stuck to two skis. That's because he took a bad fall a few years earlier (before my time, I just heard the story) and the crappy ski belt was forced up under his rib cage and tore some of his insides up, injuring him pretty badly. He always took it easy after that.

http://s138.photobucket.com/albums/q251/jbear16
I ain't gettin' this

This is a pic of my '93 at our place in Tennessee. Can't believe this is so hard!

Hey jbear, do you have a place on the water in TN? If so where?

me and mrs jbear goin' upriver fast at Norris in our '98.