Found Film: HemisFair World’s Fair San Antonio, TX 1968

About this film

This is 8mm Kodachrome home movie footage from 1968. The beginning of the film is of the 1968 Hemisfair in San Antonio, Texas. It shows the monorail and some of the exhibits at the fair. However, a majority of the film is dedicated to the couple's three dogs running and playing in the backyard. The pups get some love from both wife and husband.

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How did you digitize this film?

We are losing more history every day. The longer you wait to digitize that home movie of your grandparents at prom or your mom’s first car the more it degrades. I use the Wolverine 8mm and Super 8 Film Reel Converter Scanner to digitize what you see here.

It is easy to set up and operate and stores the files onto an SD card so you can quickly transfer files to your PC. If you have more than 10 films to scan this is definitely going to be cheaper than paying for someone to do it for you, and you’ll have the results quickly about 30 minutes scan time per standard 8mm reel.

I bought this to scan a trove of old family movies and it works great. It is easy to set up and operate and stores the files onto an SD card so you can quickly transfer files to your PC. If you have more than 10 films to scan this is definitely going to be cheaper than paying for someone to do it for you, and you'll have the results quickly (about 30 minutes scan time per standard roll of Super 8).

Incredible Machine - It did my 66 (14 five inch reels and the rest were 50-foot reels) 8mm movies with only 5 five mistakes where there was some jitter and the recordings needed to be made again. These were 70-year-old reels in not so good of condition and it only completely failed on one tape where the drive track had many holes. It is a marvel of engineering. I had a few jams on bad parts of the film and it did not seem to hurt anything. Great Machine!

This machine works very well for converting old 8 and supper 8 films. I am very satisfied with the quality even though it takes a long time to convert a 250-foot reel. My biggest gripe is the small switch that sets it to 8 or super 8. This switch can easily be switched unknowingly which will create a tracking problem if not set to the proper film type. If you get one of these, set the switch to the position you want and put a piece of tape over it.