When in Alberta, I assembled my family's entire collection of home movies; a suitcase full of reel to reel film canisters dating from the early 1950s to the late 1980s. Today, I'll be traveling to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island to drop them off with my friend Craig Burdes. Craig is in the business of transferring all kinds of archaic audio and visual records (film, cassette, etc...) to digital format and DVD. Some of the film is so brittle I don't know if it will survive the conversion, but it's better to risk it than to let them dissolve, unwatched, in the bottom of a drawer.

Many of the canisters were poorly marked and haven't been viewed since they were created. I’m looking forward to sifting through and organizing them. The ability to quickly copy, send and store the files at multiple locations will also be wonderful.

If you're interested in Craig's services, you can click here for his website, or I can put you in contact with him! He does an excellent job and is reasonably priced.