1. My parents had a film camera and projector. There were home movies and film projects my mom had her high school classes do as projects. After my parents died I just threw them away. The projector had been broken for some twenty years and film was probably degrading, so I saw no reason to keep it all. I wasn't driven to try and get it all up and going, and I was too young to remember what it was about and such. Sad in a way but that's life. I don't think anyone thought about film going bad at the time.

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2. You do so much for conservation and preservation it’s inspiring.

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3. You can bake all films before transfer 👍

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4. As always so fascinating and interesting you are outstanding you are probably 1 in a million you have so much knowledge and done so many things that it is breathtaking-and your guitar playing is really sublime you don’t overplay every tones is in perfect harmony 🙏😊👍✌️.

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5. Our local library had a 16mm film lending section. All through the 50s and 60s I checked out many films for family and friends viewing. Sadly, the film lending service was discontinued in the late 70s when videotape became more and more accessible. Many, if not most of the old 16mm prints were stripped from their reels and relegated to a dumpster. There were films in the library which, while well worn, were still viewable. One in particular was titled "The Making Of Audiotape", produced by Audio Devices. Very interesting and very rare. Another was the "McGraw-Hill series, "Planet Earth" batch of films. I would love to see these again, I have looked through YouTube, but cannot find either the series or the Audiotape one.

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6. Your very relaxing to listen to and I'd say a great conversationalist, I think you would a perfect girlfriend ❤️

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7. Hi Fran. I don't know how you do it but you always make me feel better. Thank you.

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8. What a babe!

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9. I think whenever it's movie day, cool teach! I don't care if it's Mr. Fallout turtle or even capt Kirkes first American history session prior training before you can be a starship captain! I love seeing the past and how things where for us at a time when I was a just a child growing up to someday become the citizens of the United States of America with lab technicians who's got our labs downsized yet state of the art

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10. I LOOOOOOVE your uploads of converted films! 😀

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11. Dang Fran, whenever you breakdown any of this old film-stock archiving process, I can’t help but feel restless in the absolute NEED of doing something similar with my own collections of vintage films.. although, most of mine are “motionless” 35mm filmstrip “movies” that are from roughly about 1951 thru 1956 & incorporate the use of actual records for audio dictation between each frames’ image. I acquired a mid 50’s DuKane filmstrip projector with builtin turntable & builtin amp. Played every one of these “kits” (Filmstrip, Record &, original adjoining literature) that I own for review; all run thru projector quite well ‘but’ definitely are several of the 40-some of them that have been “gassing off” and WREAK of disgusting smelling vinegar oder! Hate that smell 🤢🤮! So yeah, I really REALLY need to digitize these fairly soon, before a complete loss. Just an excruciatingly time consuming process with specifically filmstrips, as each and every SINGLE frame needs to be properly scanned, color corrected when necessary & then later, overlayed for correct audio track synching 😔. These I’ve collected are mostly Jam (Handy) Organization productions for General Motors but, mostly for GM’s BUICK Division from the first half of the 1950’s… most use 12” 33 1/3rd RPM records, some use smaller 10” & about ten of them use them MASSIVE 16” diameter 33 1/3rd RPM records that thankfully I chose to collect & restore that mid 50’s DuKane filmstrip projector because it turns out was designed to handle them HUGE records just fine! Gunna take me a long minute to fully digitize/archive all of it

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12. I thought " safety film" ( polyester) had been the standard since the mud 1930s….

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13. How do you make sure that they don't catch fire?

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