[4 Feb 2011 | One Comment | 66 views]
8mm film of my grandparents

Dadi recently found two 8mm film reels, which I happily agreed to digitize somehow. The first reel had “Republic Day Parade 1961″ scrawled on it – and later cut out – in an unknown handwriting. The address of Kodak Developers at Hornby Road, Fort, Bombay was written in my Dada’s handwriting. So I went into the process of digitization quite clueless as to what I would find.

What I found was quite astonishing – the majority of the film was taken pre-1953 (my grandparent’s wedding) – perhaps around the time my …

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