Adventures in archiving.
Sometimes we encounter a film in this condition. Its at the beginning of the reel and there's no way of knowing how much is missing. We like to save every frame - who knows what information would be lost if I just cut off the damaged section? So my job is to make sure the remaining frames can still be viewed by the digital scanner. Here I've cut the leader to match the jagged edge.
Now, let's see what this home movie is all about:
...and it looks like a convention! I don't have a viewer to watch the whole film but I'm guessing that this will be a rather gendered environment in 1950.
Oh yeah - wearing a party hat onstage with the dancing girl.
And of course a shot of the cars in the parking lot. Quel surprise. I wonder how they would feel to know this film was repaired by a lady using lady fingers and her lady brain, hmm?
