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Southfield TV station offering free digitization of city-centric home movies
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BY MIKE KOURY SOUTHFIELD — Southfield’s local television station is starting an initiative to digitize and preserve videos that pertain to the city. Southfield Cable 15 is offering people the chance to digitize their old home movies that have been made and shot in Southfield. The station is hopeful that this program will lead to finding footage of Southfield landmarks or other recognizable aspects of the city. According to the station, Cable 15 will “provide free cleaning and digitization of the following media that have a Southfield connection: 8 mm, Super 8 film, photos and slides. All materials will be returned intact to participants at no cost.” Gary Watts, producer and director at Cable 15, said they have so far obtained three pieces of film to put into their Southfield Film Archive, but they hope that through the program they can increase their historical library. “We’ll digitize it for free, as long as it’s something of Southfield,” he said. “That doesn’t mean like a birthday party from 1965. It has to have some sort of visual representation.”
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TOUTING THE DELIGHTS OF HOLLAND BY GREG TASKER
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here’s no shortage of sandy shores or charming beach towns along the Lake Michigan coastline. Ask any avid Michigan beach goer to share their favorite sunbathing spot or lakeside town and they’ll likely have a favorite or two. Lately, I’ve been touting the delights of Holland, a
spiffy, handsome community more famous for its colorful tulips and Dutch heritage than its beaches and resort amenities. At least that’s what I thought. Imagine my surprise late last summer when I ventured beyond the Lake Michigan beaches to explore downtown Holland and discovered much more than a beach town. Holland’s tree- and flower-lined streets are See HOLLAND on page 5A
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