RE: Video from before the time of video

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I found a Super8 camera in our loft and I've no idea where it came from! We suspect it may have belonged to my late grandfather and that when my parents handed over contents from their loft 20 years ago to my wife and I.... it well, ended up in our loft. We found other things too and soon we'll sort through all of the boxes, splitting things out into "keepers", have some form of value and the stuff we just want to find a new home for...

Our grandfathers led fascinating lives. Mine never bragged about any of the things he did but when prompted, the stories he used to tell were utterly fascinating. If only I'd recorded those words. My Mum's Dad worked for the Army in Aldershot as an optical engineer and some other things he never did talk about. He used to visit Boscombe down and to this day my Mum knows very little about those trips.

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I wish I could have got more stories from that generation. My parents know some stuff, but they need to write it down as well as annotating the old photos. This is stuff that is only really interesting within the family, but it still matters. We can't keep all the old stuff, but at least if we digitise it then it takes up no physical space.

!BEER

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