Totally Off-Topic My First Time Climbing a Ladder

[carolinarider09]

Just because I can. 

My dad was an avid photographer.  After he returned from WWII (from Hawaii) he had a 16mm Bolex Movie Camera.   He took lots of "movies". 

We had most of his movies converted to digital four or five years ago. 

Just thought I'd share part of one of his movies that was a movie of me. 

And yes, as you will note in movie, I used "Three Point Contact" for my first ladder climb. 

And my mom is also in the movie at the end.

https://rumble.com/v74iw0w-first-ladder-climb-1948-1949.html

Oh, my the way, I still have the camera.  It might still be working but I have not verified that. 

[Serk]

Nice!

Coincidentally I found my parent's box of 8mm reels of family history dating back to my grandfather's international travels in 1949 through to the mid 1980's of myself and my sister's birthday parties, Christmas mornings, etc and handed them off to a local digitizing service yesterday...

Look forward to sitting down with my parents to document who's whom before that knowledge is lost, and sitting down with my kids and showing 'em how things used to be...

[DIGGER]

Now that is an old home video.  Very cool.

[f6john]

Priceless family history!

[F6Dave]

Here's a suggestion. Sit down with your parents (or older relatives/friends) and record a video while you ask them questions about their past. Make a list to cover childhood, family tree, early jobs and travel, etc. You'll never regret it when they're gone. I've done it about 4 times and wish I would have done more.

[carolinarider09]

Nice!

Coincidentally I found my parent's box of 8mm reels of family history dating back to my grandfather's international travels in 1949 through to the mid 1980's of myself and my sister's birthday parties, Christmas mornings, etc and handed them off to a local digitizing service yesterday...

Look forward to sitting down with my parents to document who's whom before that knowledge is lost, and sitting down with my kids and showing 'em how things used to be...

 

[carolinarider09]

Here's a suggestion. Sit down with your parents (or older relatives/friends) and record a video while you ask them questions about their past. Make a list to cover childhood, family tree, early jobs and travel, etc. You'll never regret it when they're gone. I've done it about 4 times and wish I would have done more.

Thanks, I will consider that. 

[Rams]

Priceless family history!

What he said!

Saving those memories is something that future generations will enjoy.

Rams

[Serk]

Here's a suggestion. Sit down with your parents (or older relatives/friends) and record a video while you ask them questions about their past. Make a list to cover childhood, family tree, early jobs and travel, etc. You'll never regret it when they're gone. I've done it about 4 times and wish I would have done more.

My dad did exactly this with his dad in the mid 90's, about a year before my dad's dad passed...

I got the video tapes, digitized 'em and put 'em on Youtube so all the family can see 'em.... Around 3 hours of family history...

If anyone's bored and wanna learn more of my family history than my kids are (Currently at least) interested in learning...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m6dilpUTfQ