Thursday, July 30, 2009

Slideshows

Clara & Dan's many years BEFORE this photo was taken September 2011. 
Even the shades are in the same place!


The pictures & documents to your right represent the photos of the Cedrone, Camilli, Marini, Tocci, Patane, & Arpie families, including images from the Italian "homeland,
"San San Donato Val Di Comino"
All of these including family stories are featured on my original blog. Every photo, video & document has been personally restored by myself to honor our families & to leave behind a "clear picture," of who we were:


Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Marini 8mm Parts 1 & 2

These were the first two highlight videos produced for the Marini's. The full twelve part video History appears at the bottom of this blog page:
Marini 8mm Home Movie Part 1
Marini8mmHomeMoviePart 2

Dan & Clara's 25th & 50th Part 1 - 3





25th & 40th Anniversary!
The family portrait at the 50th Anniversary.
Recently found! Clara & Dan's 25th. The film switches from color to B&W as it was lightened due
very dark footage,. The same clip is linked with (slight) color intact:
Clara & Dan's 25th Anniversary
Clara & Dan's 25th Anniversary (switches to B&W)Clara & Dan Marini's 25th Ann. 8mm Home Movie (color)
ALWAYS the perfectionist, this is a 3rd attempt to get the best quality under 60 seconds:
Clara&Dan25th

Below are highlights from Clara & Dan's 50th Anniversary party. The fifth video is from Christopher Tocci's (their Godson's) baptism. Dan is his usual playful self. The last video is from Michael Tocci's Communion: Clara & Dan 50th
Clara&Dans50Part2

Clara& Dan Marini 50th Part 3


Larry & Frank Patane videotape each other at the same time during
Clara & Dan's 50th Anniversary.
Larry&Frank
Clara & Dan's 50th FULL LENGTH Anniversary video can be viewed &/or download below.

The first video was recorded by myself, the other by Frank Patane.
If you have email addresses &/or phone #'s of someone featured in these videos (especially on the Marini side, many of whom I do not know) please forward or show these to them.
Frank's video jumps a bit at x's. I've adjusted the tracking but cannot stop it from doing so. On the upswing he & Marie asked guests to say a few words & there are some gems. Especially Chris Gentile's mother who at that time was 90 & doesn't understand what's going on so she puts the mic to her ear saying hello like she's talking on the phone!
Considering most of the video's online are of 8mm it's wonderful to hear everyone's voices.
Here are their 1940 wedding photos (plus a few more) in HD & another HD slide show featuring a clip from the above videos:

Balzarini/Johnson Wedding

The wedding of Joyce Balzarini.
Her parents Charlie & Mela are long time friends of Clara & Dan. Clara & Mela met when they were each in the hospital getting ready to deliver.
Wedding of Joyce Balzarini and Pete Johnson

Quincy 8mm

The home of the Marini's. These videos represent the moments there & those of Clara, Dan, Linda & Janet throughout the years, including highlights from Linda's 8mm reels.
During the late 50's, early 60's Dan also filmed several family moments when they visited Pleasantville. These were never seen by the NY families until I discovered them in 2007 when I was archiving the data from the tapes. Here are the memories from those years edited together.
This single page links everything!
http://sites.google.com/site/loretosfamily/home
ALL Marini Videos are also in one playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/user/8mmhomemoviechannel#grid/user/92AADADA124D4CF7

Dan's Pleasantville 8mm-1Dan's Pleasantville 8mm-2


Dan's filmed by his 8mm as he opens his Christmas gift of 8mm reel tins:
Dan Marini's 8mm
The history of 56 Loring Street. From a muddy road & no stone walls to the way it looks today:
56 Loring Street Quincy WATCH the updated version. Check out the blinds in the front window.
There may be no upper driveway. retaining wall, or porch but the blinds are in the same spot years later as they are today!56 Loring Street

The house when it was last filmed. It still looks the same today:
Fifty Six Loring Street

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Color Corrected Pasta? WATCH:
The coffee poured (& so did the Sambucca), there was always plenty of cake too:
Coffee & Cake ( with Sambucca too!)
Have A "SANG-WEDGE." Have some coffee & cake. Mangia!
Abudanza Marini Style

What more can be said but eat, eat, eat. MANGIA!
MariniMangia

Best versions here:
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Dan building the stone wall on the driveway:
Dan's Wall .
Wave to Dan after he's through working on the wall:
Dan Marini's Wall
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Clara's color corrected Pasta:
Clara Pasta
The FIFTH Marini? BUDGY. In Italian I guess his name would be "Budgiagio?"
The Fifth Marini. Budgy!

The better Budgie version's here:ThumbnailBudgie
Long before today's video games. This was considered an"interactive,"game:
Pin The Tail
Better quality version:
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Those crazy Marini cousins:
Marini Cousins
Here's a better CRAZY cousin version:
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A very Merry Marini Christmas indeed!
A Very Merry Marini
Better quality featured here:
Douglas Tocci's Wedding:
Marriage of Doug & Norrine

Doug & Norrine Tocci Wedding, 8mm Home Movie

Donald Tocci adding a "little," polish:Polished!
Dan's 8mm of Donald & Barbara's wedding now in HDThumbnail Now in 1964 Barbara & Donald Tocci Wedding HD
Is that Al Martino?
Dan Marini LIVE
You can't leave without "some," coffee & cake:

Marini's Coffee & Cake
HEY MARINI! Pull up that suit! WATCH:
Marini Beach
The Queen of Quincy Cools Off:
Janet Beats The Heat
Dan "Ducks!"
Dan's Duck
Janet in a May procession. Watch the kids towards the end start running:
Janet Marini May Procession

A more humorous look at the procession:
Janet Marini May Procession (FUN)!
Better quality procession's here:
Janet, color coordinated even with a giant rabbit. Secons video's of better quality.
Janet Jumps!
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Clara's cousin Mela (Camilli) Consorte: Two versions light & dark:
Consorte1, 8mm Home Movie


consorte2 , 8mm Home Movie
Loreto "Larry," Tocci & Anthony Fricchione, including Grandma Cedrone hanging laundry:
Little Anthony, Little Larry


Easter, early 1960s, filmed at 37 Hopper St. Pleasantville NY:
Easter1960's

Easter, Pleasantville NY

Easter, Pleasantville, Circa' '61

Watch Sonny give Dan a whack to the back of the head after Helen gives Dan a kiss:
Sonny & Dan

Dan & Sonny

Masons, Cedrone & Marini:Sonny Cedrone, Mason

Also featured are two more shorts:Salvatore Cedrone, 8mm Home MovieSalvatore Cedrone Two, 8mm Home Movie

Family!Tocci, Marini, Cedrone, Camilli....

From Frank Tocci & Dan Marini's combined 8mm.
The age of POOFY dresses & white gloves:

LindaDianeJanetProms
Linda gets blue...chiffon:Linda Marini's Prom Night
Revised. Those 1950's/1960's Prom Queens!
Here's a better transfer:

Talk about POOFY!:
POOFY POOFY
Get even MORE POOF with a better POOFY (quality) version here:
Janet's Dream Date:
Janet's Dream Date

Janet was the Queen of Quincy!
Queen of Quincy Janet's Proms
Linda graduates Quincy High:
Linda Marini Graduation

Linda & Janet Graduate High School (combined footage):
LindaJanetGraduate
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From Linda's 8mm reel, it's Linda & Loreto:Linda & Loreto

Loreto in Quincy
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Little Loreto Visits Quincy
Dan films the exterior of the 1964 Worlds Fair:
Marini8mmHomeMovie1964World's Fair
A Better version of the World's Fair
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From Linda's 8mm reel, Tocci's & Marini's: Chris, Frank, & Clara & DanThumbnail Chris & Frank & Clara & Dan
From Linda's 8mm reel, need your cement & care maintained?:
Joes Cement & Car Care

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The well groomed dashing duo of Joe & Jim in their outfits & matching hats:

Joe & Jim. Dashing Duo With Hats!
Watch them dapper here:
Joe & Jim With Hats!
ThumbnailJoe & Jim star in their first silent movie:Thumbnail Mahoney Silent Movie
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All Joe & Jim do is run...even in their Sunday best:
LindasBoysJoe&JimMahoney

From Linda's 8mm reel, those Mahoney naniacs:
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From Linda's 8mm reel, never let your boys watch the Munsters:
From Linda's 8mm reel, the national nance craze:
Orange Crush? Read the description:Orange Crush
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A very short unknown clip. Can't tell what it's about:
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Have yourself a Merry Mahoney Christmas:
A Very Merry Mahoney Christmas, 8mm Home Movie

Mother Goose MahoneyThumbnail A Merry Maniac it is!Merry Mahoney Maniacs
Does it get any better for boys then to get guns for Christmas & Easter:
Guns For Christmas
UPDATED:
Janine the FULL video:
Janine Mahoney
UPDATED:
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Janet HITS the floor hard. In the next two videos you see why:
Janet Trips (slo mo version)

JanetMariniTrips

Enhanced we see just how badly Janet HITS THE FLOOR!
Janet Hits The FloorJanet Hits The Floor x 4
February 1969 aka the Blizzard of 69. This is a combination of the 8mm footage captured prior to the storm, the blizzard, & the day after. Filmed by Frank Patane (Jr) & Dan:
Blizzardof'69-48Hours

Here is what Dan filmed (as seen above) but without Frank Patanes footage:
Blizzard of 69 Part Two

Dan & Sonny featured on the news Blizzard 2011
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Clara & Dan visit Niagra Falls:
MariNiagra
Get a better quality Niagra good time here:
Venice:
Venice Italy, 8mm Home Movie
Venice Italy, 8mm Home Movie
From Linda's 8mm reels, Sunday dinner with the Marini's & Cedrone's & Easter:

Here are two videos of Clara & Dan. Attending Michael Tocci's birthday &
Christopher Tocci's Baptism: Bat CakeThumbnailThumbnailDan Marini
1999 (God Son) Christopher Tocci turns 5:
Thumbnail 1999 Christopher's Birthday with Clara & Dan
2011 Clara Marini enjoys watching Doug's wedding some 23 years later:Thumbnail2011 Clara Watches 8mm-1958
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What's new is old. 2011 HD video converted to 8mm!

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Enjoy a meatball 'sangwedge:"
LIVE! At Aunt Clara's
The long awaited film:
ThumbnailClara The Movie Clara will tell you it is HER sauce which was Aunt Millie's (now discontinued). The woman behind Aunt Millie's knew Clara. She tasted Clara's, loved it, then made it slightly different calling it her own!
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Recorded June 11th 2011:
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What the above 3 thumbnails are about:
Clara surfing cable stops to briefly watch Jersey Shore! Talk about a generation gap! Awful reality TV stars & A 93 year old who doesn't know who they are or why they're allowed to act that way on TV: Jersey Shore Marini
The next two are videos of the drive to Clara's Hair Dresser. You'll see me cutting through a parking lot to get there. All I can say is READ the video descriptions...
Recorded Holidays 2011. Clara's Stories:
Clara once rented the 2nd floor apt of a Hawthorne (NY) home when she & Dan married.
The landlady's daughter in law asked what Clara was cooking....
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Christmas 1920's:
Thumbnail Clara's ChristmasHarry ties a horse:
Clara tells of the time she got punched! (READ the description of the video):
Typical Sunday Dinner:
Clara's Sunday Leftovers 1080p (p for Pasta)
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Take a bite out these videos. Clara talks about how Aunt Millie's became a popular spaghetti sauce & then dig in to Sunday dinner.
Clara & Aunt Millie HDThumbnail
Thumbnail Italian Sunday Dinner HD
Italian Sunday Dinner MANGIA! HD Thumbnail


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Linda's dog Mojo. A bark BIGGER than his bite
!
Mojo 1080b (b for Bark)

Getting to Clara's in 60 seconds:
& Qunicy. (Read the video description): 
Best of Pleasantville & Quincy Part 1
Best of Pleasantville & Quincy Part 2
Best of Pleasantville & Quincy Part 3
Best of Pleasantville & Quincy Part 4
Tocci Marini:
A combination of my parent's & my brother Doug's restored 8mm with Dan Marini's Pleasantville visits.
Dan's films are long gone with only a fading VHS copy available. The VHS (vob) files were pulled/converted/enhanced to the best possible quality. Dan's near 16 minutes of Pleasantville footage intertwines with ours in chronological order.
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 Refer to this link to see the last video & the end of an era:  
http://marinisofquincy.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-end-of-era.html