Video of the wedding of Robert Anthony Curtis and Angela Gillott on September 23rd, 1978, at St Paul’s Church, Norton Lees, Sheffield.
The film was originally taken with a Super 8mm cine camera by the bridegroom’s father, Frank Fowler Curtis of Skegness.
Several years later, the film was transferred to video by projecting the original footage onto a screen and filming the screen with a VHS camcorder – don’t forget there were no personal computers back in those days!
As technology advanced, I was able to transfer the VHS version onto DVD, and finally onto a pc.
The original footage, along with all my other cine films, some almost fifty years old, has sadly been lost.
Even with its poor quality, the wedding film is a valuable record of a family event, particularly when, thirty four years on, several close family members are deceased.
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