of the five canisters sent to the developing company, two turned out to be empty upon opening. the remaining three have been developed, and as much of the images rescued as they could manage. it’s not pretty, but if you know the players involved, you can make out enough to see what’s happening. wish we could hop back to the 70s and march dad over to the drug store with the film.

on the bright side, a lock box which i thought contained coins instead turned out to have miscellaneous papers and one more developed reel, from rose’s wedding. it starts out dark, but stick with it, and you’ll see some wonderful shots of the extended family out in the parking lot.

they’ve all been added to the end of the playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A52CB5B1A04864C8

that’s all for now! unless… patty, what did you say? :-)

after a half century, my parents’ home is on the market.

thanks to all my brothers and sisters and their families for their work in getting it ready. we’re heartbroken to see it go, but as someone said, it’s been a good house to us, and it’s a pleasure to think of someone else’s kids running up and down the stairs and the having the enjoyment of it like we did.

wish us luck, and pass the word along to anyone you know who may be interested.

i’ve started transferring dad’s 8mm films to digital formats. i hoped
to do them all in a go, but it turned out that five of the reels were
exposed, but never developed. the ones which were are now here:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A52CB5B1A04864C8

wonderful views of my brother jim and myself as the cutest preschooler
and the crankiest baby ever, respectively.

i’ll be looking for someone who can try developing the remaining reels
to finish the collection. in the end, i’d like to put them all together
in a dvd to share with the extended covey and mcmurray families.

if you were there at the time or have heard family stories, we could use
your help! we need any dusty memories you can recall about these
movies, who’s in them, when they may have been taken, and any other fun
facts about them. please post your comments under them, and feel free
to forward this to anyone who may be interested or able to help.

the titles i’ve given the videos (in quotation marks) are what was
written on the side of each reel, the only information which was
included with them.

in the description next to each, i put what i was able to gather from
watching them with mom and dad. (you’ll have to click “more info” to
see all of the text.)

with a couple of exceptions, there were no dates on the reels, so
they’re in a semi-arbitrary order. if we can figure out what years
they’re from, i’ll try to arrange them chronologically, and make a final
dvd with a chapter title for each explaining what it is.

so get those grey cells going, and let’s see what we can figure out
together!