After my mom died a year and two days ago, Uncle Paul let me, Dad and sister Wendy dig through his old Super8 home movie collection to try to find footage of her. While most footage was either unusable or of other things, we did uncover about 7 minutes of family moments on two separate reels.A couple months ago, I had the footage transferred to digital video and overlaid an audio track (none existed on the film). I'm pleased to finally post a broadband version here:
The film features:
- Vacationing on the Skokomish River -- Mom (pregnant), Dad, and sisters Wendy, Paula and Terri goofing around with our family friends the Hunts
- Shots of the beach where we grew up on Fox Island
- Various scenes of Fox Island after a winter snowstorm -- including a glimpse of Mom holding me as an infant
2 comments:
Hi Matt! This is wonderful. I know all your immediate family will appreciate this greatly as well, especially with the passing of the one year mark (I was just thinking about your mom last week.... how strange). Anyway, your timing is good for me as we are having a birthday party for my mom on Sunday and I will show this clip to her. I know it will mean a lot.
Take care, Robin
Awwww... you made me cry. But in a good way. Hugs to you all!
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