Family History Sojourn

2008

 
 
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I have 10 movies from my holiday in 2002 to England. The movie set covers the holiday and the places I visited for my family history research. (Mostly the research was visiting and videoing the places I already knew.) There are 10 part in 9 sections. One section is split in 2 as it was a bit big for my computer to handle. I have converted the MPEG-1 files into MP4, I pod compatible files.

When I went on this holiday, I did not intend to make any movies. Rather I was just taking holiday snapshots and the odd short movie as a record of where I had been. The movies are good because I could get in a panorama. When I returned, I thought of making a slide show, for the family, in the tradition of my grandfather who always gave us great slide nights. I quickly realized that I had enough material to make a documentary. I count those american civil war documentaries as my inspiration. So with the limited material I had available I produced these short snippets. They are in multiple parts primarily because this was about the limit that my computer at the time could handle without slowing to a crawl.

Information on my family history