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1950’s & 60’s Television Commercial 16mm film-to-tape transfer, edit, dvd production: Cataloguing, film transfer preparation, film-to-tape transfer supervision using a Rank Cintel. Film was transferred to Betacam SP, dubbed to Digital Video (DV) Cam, downloaded via firewire to G5 dual processor, edited in Final Cut Pro, including special effects, titling, volume fades-in & out, DVD production using DVD Studio Pro incorporating titles, chaptering and credits, output to DVD with labeling for distribution.

Memoirs Book Design: Spot-edit, layout and design of over 300 pages of text, incorporating photographs. Digital scanning and manipulation of over 100 photographs using PhotoShop CS, page layout and design using Quark 6.0, archival printing and book binding. Results: 12 copies of hard bound book for client’s family.

Christmas Letter Book Design:
Scanning and digital manipulation of handwritten and computer generated Christmas Letters dating from 1968 – 2003. Design and layout of book, printing on archival printer using specially designated archivally sound paper and ink, design of cover using memorabilia from the family, resulting in several spirally bound books of more than 200 pages.

Japanese Family Photo Project:
Assessment and organization of family photos dating from 1925 to present. Family history research, design and layout of photographic albums using all acid-free archivally sound materials, incorporating photographs, memorabilia and letters. Photojournaling consultation/training with client. This collection includes family history photographs from Japan and Hawaii at the turn-of-the-century and moves to California in the 1950’s through the present.

1930's & 40's MGM Movie Star Collection:
Identification, organization, appraisal, archiving and design of over 300 autographs & autographed photos of movie stars and other film industry professionals. This private collection is valued at over $50,000 and belongs to Mr. James Hoffman whose father was a sound engineer for MGM (Culver City, California) under the direction of Douglas Shearer. Layout of pages incorporating the person's photograph and biography. Using various methods of research including libraries, the internet, and consulting/interviewing film historians attained biographies. Design incorporates all fonts, templates, layout and colors of the era. When only the autograph was available photos were scanned or downloaded from the computer and placed next to the autograph giving an added visual experience to the page.

Family Archivist to the Rhode-Brown Family:
Organization of dozens of boxes of photos and documents dating from the early 1900's to 1986 for Dr. Juliet Rohde-Brown of Montecito, California. This project included the assembly of over 12 memory albums including Dr. Rohde-Brown's Father's WWII Album. Videotaped oral history interviewing Mr. Frederick Martin Rohde while looking through his family history and WWII Memory Albums and commenting on the photographs.

Brown/First National Bank Archivist:
Preliminary assessment and cataloguing of photographic and document collection dating to the mid 1800's. This collection hails from the prominent banking family of James-Paul Brown from Crown Point, Indiana and includes thousands of photographs and paper documenting the start of First National Bank as well as the Brown family. It also consists of diaries, letters from Civil War veterans, family genealogical history, land deeds and marriage licenses all dating back to the 1800's.

van Berkhout Homemovie Transfer:
Film transfer (4 hours) of 8mm and Super 8mm film dating from 1958 to 1972 which were homemovies shot by Mr. Pieter van Berkhout. Cataloguing and describing all footage via visible timecode, constructing an edit list and finally editing the transferred footage to 1.5 hours. Supervis– ing and technically conducting Mrs. van Berkhout during her narration session. Supervising dubbing sessions designing video j-card and.

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