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 »
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Saving Tape has completed a large audio digitization project consisting of the analog-to-digital transfer of oral histories from audiocassettes and reel to reel tapes to digital .WAV & Mp3 audio files. The project came from The Central Minnesota Historical Collection – part of the St. Cloud State University Archives. Of […]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 partnered with Byrd Pictures and 36/Lyn Refuel Station to capture the sights and sounds of the North Star AMC 10 Year Anniversary Car Show, on August 7, 2016. The resulting video was posted on social media and subsequently enjoyed by ten of thousands of viewers and […]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 »
Magic Marc Productions and the team at Saving Tape have collaborated on a project we are calling “The Billy Hallquist Basement Tapes” – digitizing previously unreleased reel to reel audio tape demos of ailing Minnesota music legend Billy Hallquist. In addition to transferring the reel to reel audio tapes […]Read more »
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 palmitic […]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 »