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Home Movie Preservation Resources

9/27/2009

By Maureen A. Taylor

Find it on The Web

Care, Handling and Storage of Motion Picture Film
www.loc.gov/preserv/care/film.html: Guidelines from the Library of Congress' Preservation Directorate.

Digital Fridge
www.digitalfridge.com: Free online community to share your photographs and videos.

Film Decay and How to Slow It
www.filmpreservation.org/basics_decays.html: Article from the National Film Preservation Foundation.

General MacArthur's Home Movies
www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/macarthur/sfeature/movies.html: Watch the famous general's family in action.

Home Movies: The Family Historian's Perspective
www.marriott.u-net.com/film_history.htm: Online history of home movies for genealogists.

iclips.com
www.iclips.com: Share your videos online.

Making Great Home Movies
family.go.com/parties/events/feature/famf0400homovie: Tips on how to make your home movies or videos more interesting.

National Film Preservation Foundation
www.filmpreservation.org/preserved/program_lab_00.html: Film preservation information from professional conservators.

Northeast Historic Film
www.oldfilm.org/ed/essays.htm: A New England-focused archive that collects movies and lends films.

Preservation of Processed Film
www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/h1/preservation.shtml: How composition, processing and storage contribute to film's life expectancy.

Preserving Your Precious Home Videos
genealogy.about.com/library/ authors/ucmishkin4a.htm: Find out how to care for the videos in your home collection.

Saving Your Family Treasures: Home Movies
www.myhistory.org/saving/homemovies.html: Tips from the National Endowment for the Humanities' My History Is America's History project.

Contributing editor Maureen A. Taylor is the author of Preserving Your Family Photographs (Betterway Books, $19.99). She helps solve readers' family photo mysteries in her online column at www.familytreemagazine.com/photos/current.htm.

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