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 »
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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 »
Krista Lewis, Twin Cities Archive Roundtable member and archivist for the History Center of Olmsted County, recently contacted Saving Tape Media Conversion seeking help in salvaging a one-of-a-kind video DVD which contains WWII oral histories as recorded at a WWII Round Table on March 9, 2009. The damaged DVD belongs […]Read more »
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 »