While I'll admit that I am biased, I'm mildly surprised that there is no footage of the CP&LE RR in any of this, seeing as this is supposed to be the summer of 1964, and the RR opened the year before.
yeah unfortunately I found it all after my Grandparent's had passed away. Other family members in the film are still living but aren't CP nuts so they wouldn't remember. Knowing my Grandpa and the fact that with those movie cameras (of which I still have) the reels were about 5 minutes each so he would have been limited to what he would have been shooting. He having been in the Air Force would have been fascinated with the new Sky Ride view. My Grandma would have found the Riverboat interesting. So she would have told him to shoot that. Even though some of those shots aren't terribly interesting. Then the rest was really taking shots of the family where they happened to be at that moment. So I guess the train didn't survive the cut unfortunately. What footage is there leaves me selfishly wanting more. But it's nice to see it is what it is.
Really I'm amazed at the quality footage people shot back then limited with those short reels and cameras with no digital readouts or LCD screen or sharp viewfinder. It was basically a still camera with a moving image. Nowadays I can fill up a 60 minute digital tape, rewind, record over it and sometimes feel like I got next to nothing.
Ironically I prefer to hold my modern camcorder the way they held those old movie cameras for more stability. *** Edited 10/12/2007 10:51:44 PM UTC by HalloWeekends!***
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