Vintage 8mm Film: Lake House Summer — Boating & Water Skiing

Recommended equipment Seagate 2TB Portable External Hard Drive: https://amzn.to/4zRzgqB If you have old 8mm reels, slides, or family tapes, do not leave the only copy on your computer. Internal hard drives fail. They overheat, get dropped when a laptop is moved, and wear out from daily use. When that drive dies, the photos and home movies on it often go with it. An external hard drive is the simple backup. Plug it in, copy the files, and keep a second copy of the things you cannot replace. Cloud storage helps, but accounts get locked, services go down, and companies shut down. If the only copy lives on someone else's server, you do not control it. Keep a local copy you can hold in your hand. Be in control of your own archive of family photos and video. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Vintage 8mm Film: Lake House Summer — Boating & Water Skiing Digitized home-movie footage from an unlabeled 8mm reel: a lake house in summer, boats being set up, and water skiing on the water. Everyday scenes from mid-century family life, transferred from analog film so they can be watched again. Archival Photations preserves found footage and unlabeled reels — 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, VHS, Mini DV, and slides from the 1960s and 1970s. Towns, parades, holidays, cars, vacations, and days like this one at the lake. If this reel looks familiar, or you know the family or the lake, leave a note in the comments. Subscribe for more digitized home movies as they come off the next reel.