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8mm Film of 1950s South Africa

More 8mm films from the 50s. This time from a gentleman who grew up in 1950s South Africa, where his family ran a gold and diamond mine. Mostly shot in black and white but also some in colour, all with captions in French, explaining the footage. Scenes of weighing and bagging up the gold, him as a young boy trying to lift a small bag of gold, sorting and counting ...

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Bowled Over

In 1965 I went with a tenpin bowling team to a tournament in Paris. We hadn't been bowling very long so we didn't do very well but we saw some great teams performing!... all captured on 8mm film... silent of course. About that time I had written and recorded a bowling song 'Lets go Bowling'. I've since transferred the film to Video and edited it to the record. I ...

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