Space News
space history and artifacts articles

Messages
space history discussion forums

Sightings
worldwide astronaut appearances

Resources
selected space history documents

  collectSPACE: Messages
  Publications & Multimedia
  Space slides and narration cassette sets

Post New Topic  Post A Reply
profile | register | preferences | faq | search

next newest topic | next oldest topic
Author Topic:   Space slides and narration cassette sets
apollo16uvc
Member

Posts: 200
From: Next to LEM, Descartes Highlands, Moon
Registered: Jan 2017

posted 04-20-2020 09:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for apollo16uvc   Click Here to Email apollo16uvc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Slides were a common way to share awesome pictures and tell a story. But they are mute... obviously. Unless when combined with a cassette tape that narrates the story through music and voice, signalling when to project the next breathtaking view of space.

For some time now I have been wanting to bring these embodiments of humble 60's to 80's entertainment into the more easily accessible digital domain. It's rather simple: Scan the slides in high resolution, restore them, digitize the cassette with a good quality cassette recorder, restore if needed. Synchronize the two inertly separated mediums in a video editing program and voila!

I've ordered one to try out as a proof-of-concept. To see if it works.

If anybody would be willing to loan theirs, I will put the end product on YouTube and return the material and high quality scans, audio file and video file. Alternatively, I may be interested in buying.

apollo16uvc
Member

Posts: 200
From: Next to LEM, Descartes Highlands, Moon
Registered: Jan 2017

posted 06-23-2020 09:36 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for apollo16uvc   Click Here to Email apollo16uvc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Received the cassette and slides.

Slides are quite discoloured but I think they can be restored...

Narration screams late 60's entertainment.

A question though: Through the cassette there are short peeps to signal the next slide to be shown. Would you prefer the video of the narration and the slides to be with or without the beeps?

Dietrich
Member

Posts: 74
From:
Registered: Jul 2009

posted 06-23-2020 04:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dietrich     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
If the video presents the next slide automatically synchronuous to the narration, then I see no need for the beep. No action wold be required at the beep, so then it might be rather distracting.

Alternatively to the restored, but discoloured and not so sharp slides, better reproductions of the photos might be used as far as available.

apollo16uvc
Member

Posts: 200
From: Next to LEM, Descartes Highlands, Moon
Registered: Jan 2017

posted 06-23-2020 05:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for apollo16uvc   Click Here to Email apollo16uvc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Its an automatic video, it will go to the next slide on its own as the video and narration progresses.

I have decided to make a poll about it! To beep or not to beep.

RobertB
Member

Posts: 198
From: Israel
Registered: Nov 2012

posted 06-25-2020 11:02 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for RobertB   Click Here to Email RobertB     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Is it one piece of music throughout? Or does each slide have it's own musical piece?

what I mean is that if the background music stops and starts, then the original beep might be nice as it marks the beginning/end, but if the music flows naturally from slide to slide then it would probably be distracting.

What's stopping you from making two versions though? "original" and "modern"?

apollo16uvc
Member

Posts: 200
From: Next to LEM, Descartes Highlands, Moon
Registered: Jan 2017

posted 07-02-2020 09:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for apollo16uvc   Click Here to Email apollo16uvc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hmm good idea... I can just make both versions. Here us a quick teaser:

apollo16uvc
Member

Posts: 200
From: Next to LEM, Descartes Highlands, Moon
Registered: Jan 2017

posted 07-05-2020 02:47 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for apollo16uvc   Click Here to Email apollo16uvc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here it is!

Narrated Space: Apollo 11 by Finley Holiday:

apollo16uvc
Member

Posts: 200
From: Next to LEM, Descartes Highlands, Moon
Registered: Jan 2017

posted 07-26-2020 08:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for apollo16uvc   Click Here to Email apollo16uvc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Narrated Space: Voyager 1 Encounters Saturn

apollo16uvc
Member

Posts: 200
From: Next to LEM, Descartes Highlands, Moon
Registered: Jan 2017

posted 08-02-2020 11:56 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for apollo16uvc   Click Here to Email apollo16uvc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Future of Spaceflight, The Shuttle

robert_l
Member

Posts: 180
From: Dundee,Scotland
Registered: Jul 2008

posted 08-03-2020 07:10 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for robert_l   Click Here to Email robert_l     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Brilliant! When I visited KSC in 2018 we visited an antique shop in Titusville and one of the things I saw was an Apollo 12 slide pack with cassette I regret not buying it but thought of the idea of recreating it by downloading pictures from NASA and recording a commentary on to a cassette tape with sound clips from the internet and using a modern LED projector to display the slides!

apollo16uvc
Member

Posts: 200
From: Next to LEM, Descartes Highlands, Moon
Registered: Jan 2017

posted 09-13-2020 06:01 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for apollo16uvc   Click Here to Email apollo16uvc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Narrated Space: First Flight Of Space Shuttle

Finley Holiday slide collection for next week is a tour around and through the Kennedy Space Center during what appears to be the 80's.

I thought that may be an interesting trip down memory lane for some of you.

Did you ever visit the KSC during this time, and is there anything you remember?

apollo16uvc
Member

Posts: 200
From: Next to LEM, Descartes Highlands, Moon
Registered: Jan 2017

posted 09-23-2020 07:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for apollo16uvc   Click Here to Email apollo16uvc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Narrated Space: Kennedy Space Center

apollo16uvc
Member

Posts: 200
From: Next to LEM, Descartes Highlands, Moon
Registered: Jan 2017

posted 12-20-2020 09:31 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for apollo16uvc   Click Here to Email apollo16uvc     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Finley Holiday: The Story Of Our Universe

All times are CT (US)

next newest topic | next oldest topic

Administrative Options: Close Topic | Archive/Move | Delete Topic
Post New Topic  Post A Reply
Hop to:

Contact Us | The Source for Space History & Artifacts

Copyright 2020 collectSPACE.com All rights reserved.


Ultimate Bulletin Board 5.47a





advertisement