Finally — the movie

Below is a movie combining video shot at our reunion last October and still images from the photo book produced from the event. The video is from both the Saturday night event and Sunday morning brunch.

You may want to use the pause button occasionally if you want to look closely at a particular scene. I’ve put in freeze frames to assist, but it still can run by before you know it. You can also view it on YouTube.

(The “then and now” pictures of Josie are the default choice of YouTube, and I’m okay with that. Also, please let me know if I have missed or misidentified anyone. I did not identify spouses or guests, as I thought identifying classmates was complicated enough and so many names would clutter the video.)

A caveat: In a lesson I should have learned in high school and so many times since, I was punished for my lethargy in compiling this video. Whilst puttering about and procrastinating, I suffered a hard drive failure that eliminated the video’s raw material. Fortunately, I had sent out a preview to elicit identifications and feedback. I was able to bring that back into iMovie, but the process left me unable to edit the original “supers,” the text superimposed over the video.

You will see, therefore, that some of the identifications are rendered in a clunky manner. The most clunky is a cross-out with Xs of a misspelling of Susan Hartley’s married name. There are others, of less obvious nature. For those so inclined, I suggest finding the “corrections” serve as a drinking game.

Kudos and thanks to Courtney Phaneuf Eisenhaure and her husband, Brad, for the still images taken at the reunion and for the “then and now” comparisons with photos from our PantherPix.

Enjoy. Remember.

5 thoughts on “Finally — the movie

  1. Thank you very much for the video. If the reunion had been a month earlier I would have probably come, but I do not leave the warmth of Florida after the first of October or before the first of June.

      • Bill, this is Elaine Gelinas Slosek..just read comments and saw you are in So Cal. Where? I live there also. Send me an email if you’d like to fill me in. My email is ems1347@aol.com
        Very nice job on the video. I really appreciate it.
        Elaine

  2. Bill, a labor of love. Your video will mean a lot to many who couldn’t make the trip to Spfld. I think you Navy guys say, “Yeoman’s effort!” (but don’t take that as a demotion from LCDR 🙂 Semper Fi, joe

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