Before the next batch of DVDs roll in here (any day now) from the transfer shop in Richmond - filled with more super 8 memories than you can shake a stick at - and before I stack the DVDs we've already examined onto the 'done' shelf in the storage room, there's at least one or two blog posts left if we use the scratchy remaining bits from each disc. These would be tiny snippets that were snipped off from better snippets - including one last sad snippet of Don's final super 8 appearance on the street (ever!) before he hit the road for Australia in September '75.
Life on the block was different after 1975. Most of the 'big budget' home movies (with acting & stories) had come to a sudden halt. I began to focus my attention (and my camera) on family members and vacations to Hawaii, Disneyland and Birch Bay. In the spring of '77, I met up with Sandy L. at Gunn Lake and for the next 5 years most of my 'on location' filming was dedicated to her.
Yup, the old Blazer gang was slowly drifting apart, and it was getting harder to find more than one or two Blazers together at the same time anymore. The early scenes in today's video will reflect that. If I managed to film any of the boys at all, it was just for a few solo scenes. Just enough footage to show how the passage of time was ravaging their bodies. But for good measure, there's still a few pre-75 moments sprinkled in here too - including, ironically, another short scene from the very first ever roll, shot back in '73 with my very first ever movie camera, starring Paul and Fred. Or Fred and Paul. (They were obsessed with top billing.)
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