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5 Ways to Fill and Create a Memory Box
Looking to travel more this year, attend more music events, or treat yourself to more time at the movies with your family? No matter the experience, save your memories in a memory box to admire for the years to come....Read More -
5 Things You Might Not Know about VHS Tapes
Are you a Gen Xer or an older millennial that grew up making Friday nights Blockbuster night? Renting the latest movie releases or picking old favorites to binge watch before binging was a thing. If that sounds like you, then you’re...Read More -
Are Old Film Reels Worth Anything?
Did your long-lost, great uncle Carl whom you’ve never met die and leave you with boxes full of old film reels? Are you looking at that dusty old rag wondering if they’re worth anything? Do you also wonder why he...Read More -
How to Create a Highlight Reel
Now that you’ve sent your old home movies off to Southtree to be digitized, you’re probably wondering what to do next. “Maybe I’ll post a slow trickle of film clips on social media for the next couple of years, maximizing...Read More -
What is the Average Lifespan of Film?
There’s a difference between classic movies and old film. For instance, the first one we hold near and dear in our memories and in our hearts, while the latter tends to fade from existence, literally. Film isn’t eternal. And as some...Read More -
Hi8 Tapes
After Betamax failed to become the industry standard, Sony had to create a new tape format the same size as their VHS competitor. In 1988, Video8 was the first response. The Video8 tape is smaller and catered to VHS-C compact...Read More -
What Came Before VHS?
The 80s and 90s were synonymous with the VHS tape. Families flocked to the local Blockbuster to rent the newest releases or shot their own home movies on the family camcorder.But what came before the VHS?After all, videotape was around...Read More -
Fun Facts About Super 8 Film
Fact #1: They interviewed more than 5,000 kids for the film because J.J. Abrams wanted to cast fresh faces. Fact #2: Neville Page, who worked on another J.J. Abrams monster movie, Cloverfield, designed the look for the creature. Fact #3: ... Wait, wait,...Read More -
When Was the First Film Created?
Since the advent of the motion picture industry, patrons have flocked to theaters and lauded every development in cinematic technology. Film technology has developed quickly over the past century and a half, but when was the first ever film made? Horse...Read More -
Film Reel Features
The film and television industry is bigger than ever before and continues to produce millions of movie fanatics with each new blockbuster release and season premiere. It’s difficult to imagine that this industry was nonexistent before the nineteenth century, and...Read More
