Will Steger is one of the most revered polar explorers of our time. Among his many singular accomplishments, Steger led the first confirmed dogsled expedition – without re-supply – to the North Pole in 1986. Happily, Steger has been careful to preserve the story of his life and times through […]Read more »
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The Science Museum of Minnesota started collecting artifacts from the local Hmong community in the 1980’s, which was a time of great cultural change. In addition to collecting physical artifacts, the museum documented oral histories, cultural activities, and demonstrations of Hmong crafts. This aspect of the collection was recorded on […]Read more »
The Green Giant Company records contain one of the largest collections of audiovisual advertising material at the Minnesota History Center. Over two hundred barely-identified 16mm optical sound film reels initially resided at the Historical Society in LeSueur County, MN – the original location of the Green Giant offices. These were […]Read more »
The Norwegian-American Historical Association recently engaged Saving Tape Media Conversion to digitize an archive of oral histories recorded to audio cassette in the 1990s by author and academic Odd Lovoll. NAHA archivist, Kristina Warner describes the project as follows: The Odd Lovoll oral history digitization project started in 2020 when the Norwegian-American […]Read more »
Saving Tape has had a long and productive relationship with Marc Percansky and Magic Marc Productions. The most notable collaboration being the Billy Hallquist Basement Tapes, in which we digitized and curated a large archive of reel to reel audio recordings from the long career of Minnesota musician Billy […]Read more »
Saving Tape Media Conversion was recently asked to create high definition digital movies from four very special 16mm film prints. These film prints were made from the original Super 8mm films created by students who participated in the Film In The Cities educational program from 1970-1980. The new initiative called […]Read more »
https://youtu.be/WUZgRntXfJw Saving Tape Media Conversion is partnering with Carleton College in Northfield, MN to clean and convert a large archive of 16mm film and one-of-a-kind 78 transcription records from their historical archives. The 78 records arrived covered with palmitic acid residue. Our team formulated a chemical solution which removed the […]Read more »