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Summer 1985 (SOOC)

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This one is one of two films we have that I’m actually in, as far as I know. Looks like this was in Camp Hill in 1985, out in the Kontanis backyard, mainly under the gazebo. I’m guessing summertime?

Lots of the family members are in this one.

Summer 1985 – SOOC from Meraki Mou on Vimeo.

No audio on this one of course.

I apologize for the huge gap in uploads here, as some of you know my condo flooded a few weeks ago. Thankfully nothing got damaged (VERY thankfully!) but the clean-up on my place has taken up all my free time and then some. Thankfully that’s all finishing up now, so fingers crossed I’ll be able to dive back in to this project with my previous gusto πŸ™‚

SOOC: Tree climbers

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Three of my cousins and my pappou George climbing a tree in my grandparents’ backyard in their former house in York, PA.

Tree climbers – some color work – highly compressed from Meraki Mou on Vimeo.

This one’s so bad SOOC that I super-compressed the video so it doesn’t eat up my upload quota!

Might not be much I can do for this, but I’m going to try. When I’ve tried to do some corrections, the film quality was so degraded that a lot of the color information is simply gone. Fingers crossed I can fix this up a little more.

What I love about this clip is that it was randomly spliced onto the end of my parents’ wedding reel. According to my mom, pappou George really liked to splice, even if it didn’t make a whole lot of contextual sense.

For me, this is like a little easter egg of footage at the end of my parents’ wedding footage. Completely unexpected but really awesome, especially since these three kids in the film now are grown and have kids of their own (or on the way).

SOOC: Wedding video, August 24, 1975 – Blue Point, Long Island

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Straight Out Of Camera (so to speak).

Mom and dad’s wedding – no edits, basic color balance from Meraki Mou on Vimeo.

My parents’ wedding. August 1975 in Blue Point (Long Island), NY at St. John Greek Orthodox Church.

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Not exactly SOOC, I used the super basic color correction in FCX (side note: I miss the old FCP!), but nothing else.

There is no audio on the original.

This is a digital transfer of a VHS copy of a film reel, but the original quality wasn’t fanastic either.

Will be doing exposure and color corrections on this, section by section, as there was a lot of splicing in the film. Not sure what I can do for stability or strobe/film flicker but I will work on it.