COLLINGWOOD, ON - 1963
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Downtown Collingwood hasn't changed much in 50 years. I instantly recognized Main Street when I saw the reel and what I loved was was that there was a big ship visible in he water beyond the end of the street.
Collingwood was a big ship building centre before overseas competition and overcapacity in shipbuilding in Canada led to the demise of the industry in Collingwood in September 1986.
When this film was shot, Collingwood was very much at the height of it's manufacturing.
It's a beautiful town to visit all year around.
Born in Collingwood and lived in Nottawa for 5 years with good friends and memories.
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I was 16 at the time, nice to see Jane Cooper leading and spinning the baton. She was great at it.
Was born and raised in Collingwood... and I don't recognize it at all in this video! But, the large ship in the background, is indicative of operational shipyards, something this town will always be known for.
so cool man, hope to see more like this.
Cool. I'm 67, our family was members of Craigleth Ski Club from the beginning, then I lived in Duntroon '73-'80, married a North Bay girl there in '75, did a bit of work on the Cheechemaun, and furnace service thruout the whole region. Neat to see the film
My wife lived in Collingwood for a bit in the 90's when her parents were there. It's a charming town with a really cool ship building history. Amazing you can see one of the ships at the end of main docked around the beginning of the film.
Not enough films around of some of these locations. Neat how it almost look s identical except the stores have changed.
I'm trying to figure out how to tie this all together in a small little Canada project for the 150th.
Would love even to inspire people to dig out their closeted film reels to screen them again. Pretty amazing to see the people and places of a time long ago.
Thanks for the comments mate. Would love to hear more about your transfer process.
Good luck, hope you do. Well, I use a mirror box screen, about 4x5 inches, a canon minidv camera between 6 and 12 inches from the screen depending on whether the film is regular8 or super8 and the camera set to 60 frames per second, a dual 8 projector running at 20 frames per second to eliminate the flickering, and an s-video cable to my matrox capture device connected to the computer direct capturing.
Wow thanks, that's fantastic. Your reels like like they were scanned professional they are so clean and no flicker. Well done! I'm doing a my mom's family reels now, by reducing the shutter to 1/24th I'm getting almost no flicker, also keeping the camera much closer to the screen. Shooting with a 50mm Cine lens though so can't get too close without the picture leaving the frame. The Cine lens gives me smooth control over the aperture of the lens so if the film goes from inside (dark) to outside (bright) I can smoothly stop down to stay within legal brightness limits.
You have any other reels you're doing? I'm just going to check out your web page when i'm done typing this.
I've been doing film transfers for paying customers since 2002. Made 1,000s of people very happy.
I like the films you've done, but, they do all have flicker.
I strongly suggest you try setting your video camera to 60 fps, and adjust the speed of your projector to 20 fps, this you can do with either a variable speed projector, or, buy a light dimmer switch, wire it into a good extension cord, plug the projector into the extension cord, and use the dimmer switch to control the speed of the projector.
Also I'd recommend some other things.
Projecting just the light of the projector, set the whtie balance on it at the speed you set to do transfers. Use auto exposure, and pick a steady scene to let the camera focus on, then switch to manual focus.
UA-cam does not allow links or file attachments in comments, so I can't send you any links or photos to display some of my suggestions.
If you set your camera to 60 frames per second and either turn the speed down on the projector's speed control, or, buy a dimmer switch/knob device used to dim room lights, wire it into a power extension cord and then plug the projector into the extension cord you can turn 'down' the dimmer switch to reduce the speed of the projector to just the right speed and you'll be able to totally eliminate flickering. Also, run your projector without film to get just the light of the bulb and then with the camera viewing that light set it's white balance function and you should get way better colour transfers. Another item - see if you can reduce the camera's 'contrast' setting. That should help a lot too. And, one more item to try - run a film, your best one, focus it, then let the camera view that on auto focus for a short amount, preferably a stable scene without a lot of movement, and then set manual focus on the camera, and should produce better results too.
Hasn't changed much, but back then you knew the town was located on the water..ship at the top of Hurontario St in view. Today.... retail and condo buildings block the water view. Shame.
Looks to be an orange lodge parade. They were dying out about then. I was in high school at this time in Collingwood.
John! So cool! Thanks so much for the additional info! I appreciate it!
Not an orange parade but the Royal Black Knights the senior order.