Featured A PRICELESS CONNECTION - 60 year old 8mm film reunited with family

A number of 8mm film reels were purchased at a Flea Market in New York City for $10. They ended up being home movies taken in the late 40's and 50's.

How they ended up at a Flea Market in Manhattan all those years later is one thing, but most importantly was getting the films reconnected with the family. ...60 years later....


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Note: This is not me.

 

I love stories like this, brings a tear to my eye, thank-you for sharing this Requiem

 

There was an interesting documentary last night on PBS about home movies taken 1933-1950s by a Chinese-American, and found on ebay; the film-maker managed to restore them and reconnect with the family, and the films were very revealing about daily life at that time.
An interesting parallel story to the above.

 

Who's cutting onions in here ?!?

 

That was a great story!
It's interesting how things like that get separated, and then, surprisingly, pop up and their story is reconnected. I was researching a large group of photos handed down in my wife's family, taken between 1900 and 1920. Almost all had nothing written on them, few family recollections about them, and were from different parts of the country. A large chunk looked like Montana/Wyoming/Colorado. One had the word Montana written on it, but I had no idea where in Montana, and why this Pennsylvania family had them. While researching, I stumbled on a photo on the Park Service website for the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, and on the page was the same image as one of the photos I had. I was floored, as these were photos taken by my wife's relatives. Looking some more, I found another old photo they had that was the same. After some emails, I discovered that several years ago the historian at the park recognized some old photos of the Bighorn Canyon area on EBay and bought them. The group was about 2 dozen photos. About half were prints of the same or extremely similar photos I had, and half were ones I didn't have, but all looked to have been printed back near the time they were taken (1906). However, whereas they had 2 dozen photos shot there, I had 10 dozen, some with my wife's relatives, taken in 1906 and on a second trip in 1915. All I can figure is that my wife's great grandfather sent a batch of photos to someone, probably a business associate, over 100 years ago. They sat in a box all this time, and then some descendant of that person, likely no longer knowing their history, puts them on EBay. It was a stroke of good luck for me, because finding that photo on the Park Service website was key I needed to unlock the lost (and very interesting) story that goes with those 10 dozen photos.

 

My pleasure! This story is very precious. And the film is wonderfully put together.

If you got an account on YouTube consider making a comment on the guy's video. He really deserves it.

 

Well, now you have done it, tears are flowing.

I can almost smell the vintage leather case my father put all the home movie reels in to store. We would watch home movies during Chanukah. There was a big spread of food to nosh on. Pigs in a blanket, dip with chips, a fruit platter, deli platter... We usually watched the movies after opening up the presents at night when we were all together.

My brothers have the movies and the projector, hopefully still intact.

It took me back in time for a few moments. Thank you! Where are my tissues??

I am so glad that the home movies went back to the family.

 

@smallaxe Wow! what an incredible story! if the ones above weren't awesome enough... your's take the cake! Wow! Leslie

 

Amazing this only had less than 750 views in over 3 1//2 years.

 

This was the key photo I mentioned: https://www.nps.gov/bica/learn/historyculture/doc-barry-and-the-voyage-of-the-edith.htm
But I'm pretty sure they're wrong about that being Teddy Roosevelt.