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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Saving Tape Super 8mm film transfers are featured throughout the recent documentary film by Maya Washington. Through the Banks of the Red Cedar tells the story of Maya’s father Gene Washington, a star football player at MSU in the 1960s when racial integration in Big Ten football was still new. Gene would eventually […]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 »
Minnesota author James Eli Shiffer’s newly published book “The King of Skid Row” uses numerous images throughout the narrative that are derived from a frame-by-frame high definition (HD) scan of a vintage 16mm film titled “Skid Row”. Saving Tape Media Conversion restored the 16mm film and output sequential .jpeg images […]Read more »
Twin Cities Public Television recently premiered a TPT co-production titled “Women Serving in War”. The program features three generations of Minnesota’s military women who share their stories of service from World War II to Vietnam to Afghanistan. Produced with MN Dept of Veterans Affairs. Producer Stephanie Hallen, worked with Saving […]Read more »
Minneapolis filmmaker Brad Klein will debut his full-length documentary Legends of Ska in Minneapolis in November. Already praised at film festivals around the world, the film tells the story of Ska music and musicians. Saving Tape was tapped to digitally scan 8mm and 16mm film footage to be used in the […]Read more »
This year the Minnesota State Fair unveiled a new History & Heritage Center, a centerpiece of the new West End Market. The center was developed in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society and the Minnesota State Fair Foundation. Saving Tape Media Conversion was tapped to digitally transfer, in full HD, […]Read more »
Saving Tape Media Conversion has been utilized by the media curation team at the Minnesota Historical Society to digitize a large archive of historical 16mm film footage. The footage ranges in subject matter from rare footage of logging practices in the early 20th century, to a collection of films related […]Read more »
The Hennepin History Museum – located in Minneapolis, Minnesota – recently partnered with Saving Tape Media Conversion in the digital scanning and archiving of recently discovered 16mm film footage from the Minneapolis Aquatennial, circa 1943. The footage represents a critical missing link in the museum’s film footage. The Hennepin History […]Read more »
Saving Tape did an excellent job of converting slides and home movies from my parents’ estate. The conversion represents a lifetime of my father’s hobby of photographing and filming family events and vacations. Each sibling has a flash drive and DVD of the archive, and the original slides are ordered […]Read more »