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Thanksgiving is almost here - a time when hearts start turning toward home. The family is together. Friends are dropping by. Laughter. Fellowship. Retelling old stories and making new ones. This time of year is made for video - so turn home with Home Video Studio! Video is the perfect Holiday gift and there's still time for your project to be done and waiting under the tree!
Speaking of Thanksgiving, as is our custom this time of year, let's go around the table and hear from a few folks who took the time to be thankful. Maybe you'll get some ideas of your own.
Allison from New Jersey:
Strapped for a holiday gift idea for my husband, I saw an advertisement for Home Video Studio and thought how great it would be to copy our wedding VCR tape to DVD. Dan was able to help me and the turn around time was incredible. Can't wait to watch the video and others during Christmas week. Thank you!
Dennis from Indiana:
Home Video Studio was very professional and efficient. In a matter of an hour we were able to edit three individual videos into one with four independent videos playing simultaneously and looping. Thanks.
Robert from Ohio:
Thank you for turning our 8mm home movie films into DVDs. We have really enjoyed them, our children and grandkids have too. Our kids never saw my father or my wife's mother, so that made them real special.
Jennie from California:
I just wanted to thank you for the wonderful job you did. The photos we had of our grandmother with a memorable song all on DVD brought tears to my eyes and all the memories come alive over again. Thank you for such a special photo keepsake that our family can cherish forever!
Such praises are music to our ears. We'd like to hear yours in the weeks to come! In case you still need some ideas here are a few more ways to "give thanks":
Remember, time is of the essence. Call us today!
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Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Video & Film to DVD: Give Thanks for the Memories
Monday, November 4, 2013
November already?
Can
you believe it's November? Ready or not
the Holiday season is upon us and we want to make things easy for you this
year. Are you looking for a unique and
heartfelt gift idea? What better Holiday
gifts for family and friends than precious memories transferred to DVDs?
Do
you have priceless old tapes scattered about and in a variety of different
formats? Do you have old 8mm, Super8 or
16mm home movies in your basement, garage or attic? What about slides and photographs? Special moments weren't captured to be lying
around in the dark!! They were meant to
be viewed and enjoyed!
Imagine
those treasures organized into one convenient, durable and attractive package! Imagine the appreciation your loved ones will
have for this one-of-a-kind gift. And so
easy - because we'll do all the work.
You just drop them by!
There is still time to have this done, but time is of the essence. But don't delay - Call to make an appointment today!
Monday, October 28, 2013
This Way!
There was a time - A lot less tense
When friends talked issues - At the back yard fence
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Sunday, October 27, 2013
This Way!
The moon was there - We said "Why not?"
Are we still ready - To give our best shot?
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The moon was there - We said "Why not?"
Are we still ready - To give our best shot?
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Saturday, October 26, 2013
This Way!
We stormed the shores - At Normandy
The Brits stormed ours - By way of TV
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Tuesday, October 22, 2013
HVS Top Five Patriotic "Feelgood" Movies
HVS Top Five Patriotic "Feelgood" Movies
The Great American Home Movie is "America in Red, White and You". This month we celebrate movies that depict our American ideals and attitude.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington - An idealistic young man, appointed as a U. S. Senator, stands against graft and the corrupt "good ole' boys network" of cynical politicians in Washington.
Saving Private Ryan - A group of soldiers who have barely made it in the Normandy Invasion are given the task of locating and delivering back a paratrooper who is the only survivor of four brothers. Duty, honor and courage keep them on their mission as they encounter many obstacles.
The Patriot - As a peaceful man Benjamin Martin didn't live to fight - but even peace lovers will fight to live. Especially if life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are at stake.
Rocky - America is a nation made of second chances. Rocky Balboa, a broken fighter down for life's count, gets another shot to do it right.
Apollo 13 - A true story. Three astronauts, with the support of Mission Control, must devise a strategy to return to Earth safely after their spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage.
Home Video Studio Presents Major Motion Picture
"...movies tell us so much about ourselves- not just what we did, but what we thought, what we felt, what we imagined, what we aspired to..." - Independent Lens
Digitally transferring your precious home movies is more than a "job" at Home Video Studio. We have always considered it a mission to preserve a part of the story of America as "written" through the lens of parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, and children who lived in the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s and documented their life and times with a home movie camera.
As far back as the early 1990s, when Robert Hanley (our Founder and President) started transferring these home movies to video tape, he began to see a unique story emerge from the cameras of these everyday Americans. It's a story from a sweeping era of great change that began with our "marching home" from WWII and ended with Watergate. It's a story from an era that brought us Rock 'n Roll, the Civil Rights Movement, Viet Nam, Woodstock, Watergate and home computers. It's a story that, although born amidst the aftershock of a terrible war, brought theretofore unparalleled stability, leisure, mobility and discretionary income. Best of all it's a story written, heart and soul, by those who lived it: It's a story of you! This is the cinematic canvas for a mission that started over twenty years ago: To present the Golden Age of Home Movies on a silver platter on the big screen.
On October 19th, in conjunction with International Home Movie Day, Home Video Studio took a big step in this ongoing mission. The Great American Home Movie, a feature-length documentary produced and directed by Robert Hanley, commenced its finishing stages. After gathering thousands of hours and tens of millions of feet of home movies from people just like you (if you contributed your film, by the way, thank you!) we now begin the process of distilling it all into a ninety minute portrait of this time in America.
Besides a custom musical score by three-time Grammy and five-time Emmy-nominated composer Steve Dorff this movie will feature interviews with storytellers who lived in these times. This process of choosing the final interviewees for The Great American Home Movie also began on October 19th by way of open casting calls. These took place in twenty-five cities across the United States. If you missed the October 19th date don't worry! We are still auditioning our storytellers so please call us to see how you can participate.
 As you can imagine this is where the fun really starts! The Great American Home Movie has been a grassroots project from its inception. (the subtitle of this movie is "America in Red, White and YOU") Please watch our short video on why we think this movie is important to America. If you want to help Kickstarter.com page. You'll find much more information about The Great American Home Movie Project. Please follow this link: bit.ly/gahmp2013 to watch the video and to see our Kickstarter Page. For those of you who don't know about Kickstarter, it's a pretty cool website dedicated to helping creative projects get made. Third, on our Kickstarter pages, there are links to Facebook and Twitter. Please share our project with your friends. That will really help us get the word out. We feel that this movie is pretty important to all Americans right now.
You don't have to look far to see that America has been divided lately in our heartfelt beliefs on important issues. With that said, maybe there's never been a better time for The Great American Home Movie to come along. As the images of an earlier America roll by and as the stories of our elders began to be told it quickly reminds us that we've always been of different stripes and we've always been outspoken as individuals - but we've always come together around the things in this country that we love. Nowhere is that more aptly portrayed than in The Great American Home Movie.
At Home Video Studio those 8mm, Super 8mm and 16mm reels you bring in are more than just film. And it's more than a project. Together we are teaming up to preserve something precious for you and culturally significant to our country. Why would you look anywhere else? Whether you have film that needs our TLC, or whether you want to become involved in The Great American Home Movie, or both - call us today!
Home Video Studio - Visalia
559-732-3050
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Friday, October 18, 2013
The Great American Home Movie - America in Red, White & You!
The Great American Home Movie on Kickstarter! Please click on the link!
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Caught on tape, here is the most epic welcome to school speech ever. Enjoy!
Georgia Tech - Freshman Convocation - Epic Welcome Speech
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Open Casting Call for The Great American Home Movie on October 19, 2013!
America is a land of stories,
and we need yours! That's why The
Great American Home Movie is searching for people who lived in the
United States between 1946 and 1976 and who are at least 40 years of age to tell
their stories of a time when American life was documented in a unique and
intimate way: The Golden Age of Home
Movies.
The Great American
Home Movie, produced and directed by Robert Hanley, is a feature
length documentary film. Distilled from
thousands of hours and millions of feet of 8mm, Super 8 and 16mm film it explores
American life from the perspective of people's home movies taken in the 40s,
50s, 60s and 70s. This film is also
complemented by a custom music score by three-time Grammy and five-time Emmy-nominated
composer Steve Dorff.
A vital component of The
Great American Home Movie will be interviews of select Americans who
lived in this time. This is where you come in! Your story is important to this
project. An open casting call for
interviewees in the final production will be held on October 19, 2013 at Home Video Studio 4844 W. Rialto Ave., Visalia from 10 am to 2 pm.
We are especially interested in
people who took home movies and/or 35mm slides, or were the subject of those
movies and pictures. If you remember Mom and Dad getting out the movie camera
(or you were Mom and Dad) then we want to hear from you!
The Great American Home Movie will
highlight America’s “Coming of
Age” period. We want to hear about your experiences during this time: The Cold
War, The Korean Conflict, the birth of Television and Rock ‘n Roll, Camelot,
the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, the British Invasion,
Vietnam, the Summer of Love, Woodstock, the Moon Landing, Watergate, computers
and the birth of Apple and Microsoft.
What an era of sweeping change - yet unparalleled stability
for average Americans! It was a
revolution in jobs, careers, businesses, automobiles, birthing babies and
raising families, childhood, toys, family gatherings, cookouts, picnics,
holidays, vacations, schools, sporting events, weddings and funerals – life and
living. What was your part in the revolution during this Golden Age
of Home Movies? Come by Home Video Studio 4844 W. Rialto Ave., Visalia on October 19 from 10am to 2pm and
tell your story! Should you be chosen as
one of the featured interviewees the filming will begin in 2014 with a movie
release in 2015. There is no compensation
for the interviewees.
The Great American Home Movie will have a universal impact - like no other
documentary ever produced. And you have an opportunity to be part of
it! American families tell their own
stories - their hopes, desires, and most special moments. It’s America in Red,
White and You!
SYNOPSIS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN HOME MOVIE
Post World War II America – the Baby Boom
generation era, beginning in the mid-1940s and climaxing in the 1960s,
stretching into the 1970s – redefined and challenged the traditional American
experience. It was an amazing time of great change – the
re-industrialization of America, the Korean Conflict, the birth of Television and
Rock ‘n Roll, Camelot, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Civil Rights Movement, the
British Invasion, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Summer of Love, Woodstock, the
Moon Landing, Watergate, Computers and the birth of Apple and Microsoft.
Yet this era of sweeping change brought unparalleled stability for
average Americans – jobs, careers, businesses, automobiles, birthing babies and
raising families, childhood, toys, family gatherings, cookouts, picnics,
holidays, vacations, schools, sporting events, weddings and funerals – life and
living.
What is even more amazing is that all across the
country, Americans captured these precious moments as they happened on 8mm and
16mm motion picture film – the Greatest Generation, the parents of the Baby
Boomers, documented this “Coming of Age” period in American history. This is
the context and cinematic canvas for The Great American Home Movie – a
feature-length documentary shot by parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and
yes, even their children.
Over the past twenty years,
Producer/Director/Editor Robert Hanley has been evaluating, capturing and
archiving America’s home movies. Culled from over 5,000 hours of 8mm,
Super-8mm, and 16mm film, The Great American Home Movie engages and electrifies
the viewer, first in the simplicity of its subject matter and then in the
poetry of moving images – Dad grilling hamburgers on the back porch for the
family’s 4th of July cookout; Betty unwrapping her brand new Barbie Doll on
Christmas morning; Billy riding his first Schwinn bike down a gravel road,
fishing pole over his shoulder; Baby Karen taking her first steps; and Corporal
Johnson, home from the war, washing his brand new Chevy.
Added to these iconic images is our American
landscape – small towns, big cities, suburbs, farms, schools, roads and
highways; city parks, national parks, zoos, and monuments. These scenes, and
thousands of others, comprise the single, constant theme that ties The Great
American Home Movie together: the American experience. Multiply
these iconic images by the more than thirty-year chronological time-span of
this documentary and the very ordinary becomes truly extraordinary!
Hanley has rescued, edited, and woven together these incredible,
priceless images with real live accounts of those days by the Americans who
lived it. Everything is set to a lush musical score by Composer/Songwriter
Steve Dorff.
©Great American Home Movie 2013
The Great American Home Movie™
Runtime: 69 minutes, Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Runtime: 69 minutes, Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Produced, Directed and Edited by Robert Hanley
Musical Score by Steve Dorff
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The Great American Home Movie Project Synopsis
Copyright 2012, Home Video Studio, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Great American Home Movie Project is a
Trademark of The Great American Home Movie, LLC.
America in Red, White and You is a Trademark of The
Great American Home Movie, LLC.
Thursday, September 19, 2013
HVS Top Five Young People's Sports Movies
One of the first places we learn "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat" is in sports. Here is our list of films that remind us of those days.
Remember the Titans is based on the true story of African American coach Herman Boone as his high school football team is forced to integrate. Inspiring.
The Sandlot is a fun coming of age movie with an ensemble cast. If you ever thought summer was invented for goofing off and playing baseball this one's for you.
Bad News Bears is a classic. A grumpy ex-minor league curmudgeon coaching a team of misfit kids always makes for great entertainment - especially when his ace on the mound is a girl.
Space Jam has Michael Jordan, Looney Toons characters and aliens all in one movie. And a hit soundtrack. What more could you want?
The Mighty Ducks is about a narcissistic lawyer sentenced to serve community service by molding a bunch of misfits into a hockey team. In the meantime he actually becomes the person he always wanted to be.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Remember your Great Sports Moments on DVD
If there's ever a place where the cameras are rolling it's at local sports events. And why not? The field of athletic competition produces some of the best memories of our lives, and the lives of our children. And with a Sports Highlights Video you can make those moments impactful, dramatic and memorable!
It's appropriate that we are focusing on Sports Highlights Video this month at Home Video Studio, for it was in September last year that we lost the man who invented the way we look at sports highlights today - Steve Sabol. Like Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, and a few other gifted and hard working visionaries, Sabol redefined not just an industry, but stamped an indelible mark on American culture. As an artist he was a storyteller and used the human drama of athletic competition to weave a tale. With the filmmaker's tools of super slow motion, microphone techniques, reverse angles, multi camera angles and powerful music he captured our imagination and turned an ordinary athletic event into a Shakespearian drama. Television programs like ESPN's SportsCenter and similar sports highlight favorites that have become part of our day simply would not exist without the vision of Steve Sabol.
You have the human drama of athletic competition in your hands as well. What are you doing with it? Where are your son's Little League games? Or your daughter's soccer matches? Or your bowling league? Or your well-played charity golf tournament? Don't let them sit in cameras or in drawers!
It's time to make a play and turn these into interesting stories! Let us help you bring all your great sports moments to life! It's all up to your imagination. We can create highlight arrows, isolation techniques, quick cuts, slow motion, stop action, high energy music, narration...the possibilities are limitless. But in the end you'll think you were watching SportCenter.
Finally we can provide professional packaging with an attractive label and DVD cover, as well as a DVD menu with thumbnail chapters. Think of it! Your high school and college games or your kids' games. Bowling. Softball. Fishing. Golf. All edited to your liking into a neat presentation that you will enjoy and show again and again.
Call us today!
559-732-3050
It's appropriate that we are focusing on Sports Highlights Video this month at Home Video Studio, for it was in September last year that we lost the man who invented the way we look at sports highlights today - Steve Sabol. Like Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, and a few other gifted and hard working visionaries, Sabol redefined not just an industry, but stamped an indelible mark on American culture. As an artist he was a storyteller and used the human drama of athletic competition to weave a tale. With the filmmaker's tools of super slow motion, microphone techniques, reverse angles, multi camera angles and powerful music he captured our imagination and turned an ordinary athletic event into a Shakespearian drama. Television programs like ESPN's SportsCenter and similar sports highlight favorites that have become part of our day simply would not exist without the vision of Steve Sabol.
You have the human drama of athletic competition in your hands as well. What are you doing with it? Where are your son's Little League games? Or your daughter's soccer matches? Or your bowling league? Or your well-played charity golf tournament? Don't let them sit in cameras or in drawers!
It's time to make a play and turn these into interesting stories! Let us help you bring all your great sports moments to life! It's all up to your imagination. We can create highlight arrows, isolation techniques, quick cuts, slow motion, stop action, high energy music, narration...the possibilities are limitless. But in the end you'll think you were watching SportCenter.
Finally we can provide professional packaging with an attractive label and DVD cover, as well as a DVD menu with thumbnail chapters. Think of it! Your high school and college games or your kids' games. Bowling. Softball. Fishing. Golf. All edited to your liking into a neat presentation that you will enjoy and show again and again.
Call us today!
559-732-3050
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About Home Video Studio - Visalia
Your local Home Video Studio offers a wide range of professional video production services to consumers and businesses alike. We value our customers and want to thank you for being a part of our success!
Home Video Studio strives to make your experience with us enjoyable and truly memorable. Our specialties include video production, video editing, home movie and video transfers, CD and DVD duplication, and much more! For all of your video needs, call Home Video Studio today for an appointment!
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Monday, September 16, 2013
HVS vs the Competition - Home Video Studio - Visalia, Ca
HVS vs the Competition - Home Video Studio - Visalia, Ca from Arthur Zepeda on Vimeo.
Home Video Studio's Film Transfer Department has taken a big step forward in providing High Definition home movie transfer! We are proud to announce the arrival of our new MWA-Nova FlashscanHD for 8mm, Super-8 and Super-8 sound home movie transfer. Now you can have your film digitized and put on a DVD or a hard drive knowing it's being processed with the state of the art in sound and silent film transfer!With a completely digital path and the highest quality capturing codec (Apple pro-res 422) your home movies, even in Standard Definition, will look fantastic. And, if you want High Definition to a Blu-Ray disc, we can provide that in a 1280X720 resolution as well!
Another great feature of the FlashscanHD is its sprocketless transport and laser frame alignment. What does that mean to you? It means no jerky film movement because of damaged sprocket holes. It means you see 100% of the frame even if the film has shrunk.
Contact your Home Video Studio today and ask about Home Movies on HD Blu-Ray disc.
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
September is Sports Highlight Video Month!
September
is Sports Highlight Video Month! Do you
have some video of "great sports moments" from this summer. Your birdie on six?
Call
us today!
Home Video Studio-Visalia, Ca
559-732-3050
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