Thanks Dan, you and Harry both have endorsed them so I called and will go in 
next week to see if they can help.  I appreciate it.

John


On Jul 9, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:

> John,
> 
> Video Kitchen, 2323 Bardstown Road, 458-4411. They converted a bunch of old 
> Super-8 movies for us and did a great job.
> 
>> Folks,
>> 
>> My wife and I will celebrate our 50 yr. high school class reunion next year 
>> (yes we are past the "youth" age).  I am drafted to put on the video 
>> production and while most put on slide shows but we Mac guys don't settle 
>> for that.
>> 
>> Years ago the hometown we are from was featured on the Walter Cronkite show 
>> " You Were An Eye Witness".  Now this was back in the 1960's and the 
>> technology was less than stellar.  Somehow the movie was converted to VHS 
>> tape and through a large search I found an upperclassman that had a copy of 
>> all the tapes.  CBS did a followup 30 years later and produced another 
>> program and I have both.  The tapes arrived and as I had two OLD VHS players 
>> I felt the problems were most likely with those old machines so I ordered a 
>> new one.
>> 
>> Even with the new one the tapes have repeated "blackouts", over and over to 
>> the point if I can convert them to digital the editing will make the final 
>> result almost unusable.   What a shame.  
>> 
>> In the past there has been mention of professional firms that work with 
>> these and I would like to see if they have better equipment or more 
>> elaborate ways of recovering these.  If you have had any experience with 
>> such firms I sure would appreciate you sending their name my way.  It would 
>> be a shame to have this lost as it is a window on our past, and that will be 
>> the theme of the movie I am trying to put together......."A Journey Of 
>> Memories".  
>> 
>> 
>> Many thanks,
>> 
>> John
>> 
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