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Bergeron wedding: May 25, 1973

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And now for a ‘guest video’ if you like: I’ve digitized the wedding tape of Eric’s parents, Mary Ann and Grant Bergeron. Since I’ve been digitizing videos of my family’s important events, I thought it only natural to do the same for Eric’s family too!

Bergeron wedding from Meraki Mou on Vimeo.

I always enjoy looking at footage from the 70s, especially the early 70s, because good lord — the lapels! What’s not to love? They were all in style at the time, of course. (And yes I’m well aware that 30+ years from now when people look at pictures from my wedding, they will probably say the same things…)

I did some light optimization and editing on this, mainly on the footage inside the church. I was able to amp up the overall exposure and brighten the midtones so we can see a little more of what’s going on, but as with all film-to-VHS-to-digital, unfortunately a lot of the original “data” is lost. There’s not a lot you can do, but I did what I could. I think the first few minutes are significantly improved from the original! (I’ll post a comparison later.)

Eric’s parents were married on May 25, 1973 at St. Jerome Roman Catholic church in New Britain, CT. The reception was in Bristol at Georgette’s house (Grant’s sister).


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Theia Anna & Theio Harry’s wedding 1968

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Here it is – the video from Theia Anna and Theio Harry’s wedding! It’s mostly a lot of dancing at the reception, but the procession before the wedding is on there too. As noted below, the first 2 minutes are not very good (under exposed!) but after that it gets a lot better. I loved seeing the dancing at the end (very 60s looking, some of it :))

Theohari & Anna wedding from Meraki Mou on Vimeo.

Theia Anna and Theio Harry's lovely wedding in Greece. The first 2 minutes are very grainy and underexposed (I did what little I could to fix it, but not much I can do). Don't worry, the quality gets much better 2 minutes in.
The film starts at the procession through the village, for some reason excludes the ceremony, and then has lots and LOTS of footage of the dancing afterwards.

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

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Another one straight out of camera…

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

My parents’ wedding reception. August 24, 1975, in Blue Point (Long Island), NY.

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 fantastic either.

Not exactly SOOC, I used the super basic color correction in FCX.

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.

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

Posted by meraki

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.