Reading your story about the closure of the Ramsgate Maritime Museum got me thinking. Being a bit of an 'oldie' I remember the days when the whole of Ramsgate front was illuminated, including the 'clock house' as it was then known. So I rummaged through my old cine film and came up with this. Those were the days!
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God the good old days when we had a council that cared.Will they ever return?
The days before TDC, methinks, when it was Ramsgate Borough Council.
Some miracles would be just too incredible to perform.
Who needs to go to Blackpool when they can see illuminations like that!
I like the bit of history. But, can you tell me how you managed to transpose some ancient cine film onto the blog site and make the lights flash as well. Bit of skullduggery methinks...mmm!!
I had the super 8 films transferred to DVD a while back so it was just a case of exporting some stills from the DVD and then putting them on Gickr the free jpeg animation site. Then I sent ECR the url for the Gickr animation to embed on his blog.
I may be old but I'm not past it. Have you never heard of silver surfers? Skulduggery indeed. What an insult. If you don't believe me click on the 'gickr.com' on the animation and maybe even you could do it too.
Thanks Samantha, I've got as far as cine to VHS. But, I'll have a go and maybe I will master it all one day; if I live that long! No insult intended. honest...
No offence taken honestly Mitch. Its just I get a bit fed up sometimes with ageism and that. I took a degree in computer studies when I was 55 but everyone seems to want spring chickens.
Sorry if I sounded a bit harsh. I;m so past it I can't even blame the time of the month!
Was the shot of the windmill taken from the Paragon looking across the West Cliffe Hall ?
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