Media Wall
Footage credits
The samples on the Media Wall are real home movies, tapes, slides and snapshots, digitized from the originals and shared by their owners and archives under open licenses. I didn’t digitize them, and they aren’t my customers’ memories. Thank you to everyone below for sharing them.
Tapes
St Petersburg 1996
VHS home video
“Санкт-Петербург 1996 год, экскурсия на автобусе, съемка из окна” by dspiridonov_ru. CC BY 3.0.
A 45-second excerpt, scaled to 480p and re-encoded.
Lunar New Year 1994
VHS
“1994-02-14 Lunar New Year JiShinBalpGi San Jose VHS-019” by KRC 민족학교 (Korean Resource Center). CC BY 3.0.
A 45-second excerpt, scaled to 480p and re-encoded.
Tver 1999
VHS home video (silent)
“Тверь 1999. Видеоблог девяностых (VHS) (без звука)” by Sokolov Video Shack. CC BY 3.0.
A 45-second excerpt, scaled to 480p and re-encoded.
School Anniversary 1996
VHS
“1996 Крым, Джанкой, 90е - Средняя школа №5. Старое видео VHS” by Юрий Дейнека (Yuri Deyneka). CC BY 3.0.
A 45-second excerpt, scaled to 480p and re-encoded.
Friends 1996
Video8 camcorder tape
“[Home movie: Mario Perez Video Collection, 1996, friends, Washington DC]” by Mario Perez; Mario Perez Video Collection, Al Larvick Conservation Fund, Media Burn Archive. CC BY-SA 4.0.
A 45-second excerpt, scaled to 480p and re-encoded. This excerpt is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
8mm Reels
Summer Lights 1984
Super 8 sound film
“ALCF James Kilgore Films Clip 5222” by James Kilgore; The James Kilgore Film Collection, Audiovisual Heritage Center, Nashville Public Library; conserved through the Al Larvick Conservation Fund. CC BY 4.0.
A 45-second excerpt, scaled to 480p and re-encoded.
Carter Rally 1978
8mm / Super 8 film
“ALCF James Kilgore Films Clip 5220” by James Kilgore; The James Kilgore Film Collection, Audiovisual Heritage Center, Nashville Public Library; conserved through the Al Larvick Conservation Fund. CC BY 4.0.
A 45-second excerpt, scaled to 480p and re-encoded.
Scotland 1965
8mm film (silent)
“The 8mm Films of Gilmore Dennison Reel 12” by Gilmore Dennison. Public Domain Mark 1.0.
A 45-second excerpt, scaled to 480p and re-encoded. The soundtrack added in 2021 is removed.
Christmas 1978
Super 8 film (silent)
“Richard and Mary Goodew at Minneapolis house at Christmas time 1978” by The Goodew family. CC0 1.0.
The eight short clips joined into one reel and re-encoded.
Audio Cassettes
Grandma’s Interview 2000
Audio cassette
“Annadene Steinmetz Interviewed by Larry Steinmetz (Side B)” by Larry Steinmetz and Annadene Steinmetz. CC0 1.0.
The first minute of side B, re-encoded.
Slides
Pie Town 1940 (12 slides)
35mm Kodachrome slides
“Russell Lee, Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940 (FSA/OWI Color Photographs)” by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration; Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division. Public domain (no known restrictions).
Scaled down from the Library’s scans of the original slides.
Photos
Photo Box 1950s (12 photos)
Family film negatives
“Kathy Vreeland Photo Box Film Negative Scans” by Kathy Vreeland. CC BY 4.0.
Scans 1 to 12, scaled down and saved as JPEG.
