Sometimes we find ourselves having legacy photos handed down from grandma that are torn, highly worn, or otherwise severely distressed. We, at W. Cardone Productions, see this often and especially with entire estate legacies. Sometimes a photo was in grandpa's wallet for 20 years. Other times ... Read More »
Thinking Vintage
FilmOSound Rare Super8 Home Movie Film Format
What Is It? With the introduction of Super8 home movie film in the mid-1960s came an option for sound. But it was pricy and not widely sold. But there was more than one 8mm Super8 sound format offered to the consumer. The most common format was one that used film manufactured with magnetic sound ... Read More »
Can You Match the Legacy Media?
At the W. Cardone Productions booth at the Chelsea Community Fair of 2022 we had a contest that fair patrons were encouraged to play. On one table we had various forms of legacy media such as an audio cassette, a Betamax video cassette, and the list goes on. On the other table we had matching ... Read More »
Complimentary Color-Correction Scanned Media
The clock turns forward and can not be stopped. Time raveges not only our bones and being but the physical representation of our memories as well. Some media is more resilient to the ravages of time than others. For example, Kodachrome film dyes fade at an even rate so that there is little to no ... Read More »
Sticky Shed Syndrome
WHAT IS STICKY SHED SYNDROME, ANYHOW? Sticky Shed Syndrome (SSS) took the magnetic recording industry by surprise when first encountered in the early 1980s. It was never an issue until tapes were being brought out of storage and refused to play reliably without breaking. SSS in many cases ... Read More »
Design Your Own titles
W. Cardone Productions introduces something revolutionary in the legacy duplication to digital industry—truly custom titles. The concept is simple. We supply the client with a Microsoft PowerPoint template file having slides that are the precise size needed for placement on a 1080p sequence ... Read More »
