If you are an owner or collector of VHS tapes and movies, you want to protect your own investment in this area of entertainment. Here is something to consider. There have not been any new VHS tapes produced in more than a decade. In fact, no movies are made onto VHS tapes at all [...]
FILM 8mm and Super 8 FILM were popular from 1940 to 1980. The film is on a reel and played back on a projector displayed on a screen. If you were to hold the film up to a light you would see tiny picture on it. Each 3 inch reel plays for about 4 minutes. [...]
With each new blockbuster release, the film and television business continues to grow more than ever before, generating millions of new cinema fans. It's hard to believe that this business didn't exist before the nineteenth century. Now that virtually everything is filmed with digital cameras and sound equipment, it's easy to forget that until the [...]
If you have a lot of home memories that you would like to protect, then you might be wondering how you should keep them safe. This might be your only copy, so if something happens to them, you could find yourself out of luck. Therefore, what should you do to keep your memories safe from [...]
If you have a series of home movies that you recorded at home, you might be wondering how you can convert them to a more modern format. Even though there is a way to do this, the first and most important step is to understand the type of film that you used to film your [...]
You may have a family member that enjoyed filming everything, or you could have just received or discovered a box of Regular 8, Super 8, 16 and/or 35mm films. The best way to enjoy the images stored on these reels is to convert it to digital format for easy and secure viewing. Why buy a [...]
In 1923 16mm film was introduced as a cheaper alternative to 35mm film. In 1932 Regular 8mm film was introduced as a cheaper alternative to 16mm. It was sold as double 25-foot film that had to be flipped in the camera after the first 25 feet had been exposed. The remaining 25 feet or 1.5 [...]
