I am not a Marini. My parents were Frank Tocci & Christine (Cedrone). Clara is my mother's sister. That's why there are so many " Tocci -Cedrone," links. I created this blog as a "sister," to my family blog. The images/videos represented here reflect Clara, Dan, Janet & Linda as well as "my side," including Dan's 8mm home movies which also feature the Marini's.
If you're a Marini & would like to contribute to the blog please contact me, (there is no charge) so I can help you link your photos & videos.To use this blog...
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The slideshows to your right will take you to the web sites where all the images & mp3's are available to download for FREE.
The one question I'm often asked, "Why so many versions of the same video, or content."
When
I first began I had limited video quality available. I was pulling clips from
videotapes, sometimes not the best. As I restored video, I didn't
delete the older versions because of the work involved. Instead I
created a link within the older version which would direct you to the
newer version(s).
However as explained throughout this blog, back in the 80's Clara had her home movies transferred to VHS. Assuming she no longer needed the original films she threw them away! I had no knowledge of this at that time. (ALWAYS keep your originals). The transfer quality was only fair. By today's standards they would be poor. The tapes are worn, further diminishing quality. I converted the data of those tapes into digital files so they could be made available online. While the quality is lacking, it's all that's left. View them below.
This one page contains everything:
https://sites.google.com/site/loretosfamily/
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Marini 8mm Home Movie History Twelve
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Youtube Channel
I've made every video available in playlists
on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/8mmhomemoviechannel
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Clara & Dan's 50th FULL LENGTH Videos
Clara & Dan's 50th FULL LENGTH Anniversary video can be viewed &/or download below.
The 1st 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.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!
Friday, April 9, 2010
Marini 8mm Home Movie Montage
Excluding the first photo this slideshow was created from images pulled from the Marini 8mm home movies.
Friday, November 27, 2009
Clara & Larry Patriot Ledger Thanksgiving 2009
Parade
Memories. Clara Marini-91 with her nephew Larry Tocci. Larry converted
to digital,home movies of the Quincy Christmas Parade which her
husband Dan had taken 50 years ago.
In compiling his family history, Larry Tocci dug up a bit of Quincy history as well.
He was searching through old photographs in his aunt’s West Quincy home when he came upon VHS reproductions of 8mm reels. He gave the tapes a look and was
In compiling his family history, Larry Tocci dug up a bit of Quincy history as well.
He was searching through old photographs in his aunt’s West Quincy home when he came upon VHS reproductions of 8mm reels. He gave the tapes a look and was
transported to Christmas in the 1950s when Quincy Center was known as Shopperstown USA.
It’s some of the only footage known to exist of the formative years of the city’s Christmas parade, a community tradition that began in 1952 and continues this Sunday.
Ed Fitzgerald, director of the Quincy Historical Society, enthusiastically accepted Tocci’s offer of copies of the tapes, which Tocci has posted on YouTube.
“We have some ’50s footage, but we don’t have a lot,” Fitzgerald said. “The holiday parade stuff is fun. It’s a great little capsule of a whole other time. You’ve got these street scenes of places that are long gone.”
Holly and garlands hang from lampposts, majorettes twirl batons and Santa waves from a holiday float as it passes department stores on Hancock Street.
“We’d bundle up the kids and we’d all go over to watch the parade,” remembered Clara Marini, 91, Tocci’s aunt, who has lived in Quincy since 1942. “It was a big thing. All my friends, all my neighbors over here, we all went. We walked.”
Clara’s husband, Donato – he went by Dan – had a documentarian’s eye. He didn’t just film his daughters Linda & Janet majorettes in the parade, but the entire event, as if he were covering it for live television.
“Imagine me, I’m scanning this and going, ‘What is he doing? What is he trying to shoot? Who is he trying to get?’” Tocci said. “He just filmed the parade.”
Dan Marini, a carpenter from New York, moved his family to Quincy in 1942 to take a job at the Fore River shipyard. He built barracks during the war.
He and Clara raised their two daughters, Janet and Linda, in Quincy. In the 1950s – which Fitzgerald called “the great age of home movies” – Marini began documenting family events with an 8-millimeter camera.
The footage – of weddings and birthdays and anniversary celebrations – proved invaluable as Larry Tocci compiled the family history.
Clara Marini said her husband was careful with his film. “He was very meticulous,” she said. “He kept it just so.”
Dan Marini died three and a half years ago. Shortly thereafter, his nephew found the tapes.
As he combed through the footage, studying the vintage cars and Sunday-best clothing, Tocci realized his uncle was preserving a record of the time, not just of the family.
“This speaks of a very simple time,” Tocci said. “They didn’t need to have just quick edits, fast pace, almost like a video game or an action movie. This is very simple. You can see all the local townspeople just out, watching their family and friends in a parade. That’s just simple, pure Americana.”
Quincy Ma. Holiday Parades Late 1950's
It’s some of the only footage known to exist of the formative years of the city’s Christmas parade, a community tradition that began in 1952 and continues this Sunday.
Ed Fitzgerald, director of the Quincy Historical Society, enthusiastically accepted Tocci’s offer of copies of the tapes, which Tocci has posted on YouTube.
“We have some ’50s footage, but we don’t have a lot,” Fitzgerald said. “The holiday parade stuff is fun. It’s a great little capsule of a whole other time. You’ve got these street scenes of places that are long gone.”
Holly and garlands hang from lampposts, majorettes twirl batons and Santa waves from a holiday float as it passes department stores on Hancock Street.
“We’d bundle up the kids and we’d all go over to watch the parade,” remembered Clara Marini, 91, Tocci’s aunt, who has lived in Quincy since 1942. “It was a big thing. All my friends, all my neighbors over here, we all went. We walked.”
Clara’s husband, Donato – he went by Dan – had a documentarian’s eye. He didn’t just film his daughters Linda & Janet majorettes in the parade, but the entire event, as if he were covering it for live television.
“Imagine me, I’m scanning this and going, ‘What is he doing? What is he trying to shoot? Who is he trying to get?’” Tocci said. “He just filmed the parade.”
Dan Marini, a carpenter from New York, moved his family to Quincy in 1942 to take a job at the Fore River shipyard. He built barracks during the war.
He and Clara raised their two daughters, Janet and Linda, in Quincy. In the 1950s – which Fitzgerald called “the great age of home movies” – Marini began documenting family events with an 8-millimeter camera.
The footage – of weddings and birthdays and anniversary celebrations – proved invaluable as Larry Tocci compiled the family history.
Clara Marini said her husband was careful with his film. “He was very meticulous,” she said. “He kept it just so.”
Dan Marini died three and a half years ago. Shortly thereafter, his nephew found the tapes.
As he combed through the footage, studying the vintage cars and Sunday-best clothing, Tocci realized his uncle was preserving a record of the time, not just of the family.
“This speaks of a very simple time,” Tocci said. “They didn’t need to have just quick edits, fast pace, almost like a video game or an action movie. This is very simple. You can see all the local townspeople just out, watching their family and friends in a parade. That’s just simple, pure Americana.”
Quincy Ma. Holiday Parades Late 1950's
The first 1/2 is now available in HD:
The 2nd 1/2 of this parade was further enhanced:
Quincy Ma. Holiday Parades Late 1950'sI had a little fun with the photo too:
You can also watch it on my laptop!
Quincy Holiday ParadeFOUND! After this interview, two minutes of ORIGINAL 8mm footage were found with Linda's reels . You'll see quite the difference in quality. Featured is Linda. Janet is seen too & again in the crowd with neighbors at the end:
Quincy Ma., 1950's Christmas Parade.
1950's Quincy Christmas Parade
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Marini Restored Photos
Donato Marini comes to AMERICA!
I guess Dan (left) WITH CIGARETTE & his brother also with a smoke, (No. This is not photoshopped), must've need a good smoke to relax them before the long trip to America. Dan entered the states as shown above when he was 15. He's about 8-10 here so he must've been really relaxed! Or wired...without cigarettes on board.Click on each picture to view/print full size. Badly spolied by water marks, dust & tears, I have restored this vintage Marini photo in b&w & sepia. Recently found was the additional photo taken that day. The children are without hats but Mrs. Marini is now wearing "fur."
The backdrop is just that, a fake background very common for portraits during this period.
However imagine the photo taken in San Dona to. It might've looked more like this one "pictured," above in the old country. 
I've also taken the ship's document, blending it with the San Donato photo:The next two offer a custom blend of the photo with the ship's manifest including the ship itself:
Clara (in white) & Dan meet for the very first time!
Is this real? Well, maybe not but it's what they would've looked like when they first met.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Clara Cooking Pasta
The same pot! Insert, 8mm still from a 1960's home movie. Larger image is a screen shot from 2009 camcorder video. It's the same pot. It's truly the (golden) fountain of youth.
Color Corrected Pasta? WATCH:
2010: With new High Def camera's here is Clara making pasta in HD. Or is that HP? Hot Pasta:Clara Marini Pasta
2009 Videos:
Both are featured below & linked here. These were recorded August 23, 2009. Part two shows Clara in 1959 making home made pasta, & we see her 50 years later still making Sunday dinner:Clara Marini Cooking Pasta 8/23/09
Clara Marini Pasta Part Two
This 8mm was film by Ed Mahoney Looks like
Homemade Gnocchi's are on the menu:
Clara Marini's Fresh Gnocchi's!
8MM & TODAY! Picture in Picture, or is that Pasta in Pasta?!:Aunt Clara's Pasta
Here's the alternate version:Clara's Pot of PastaWhat's new is old. 2011 HD video converted to 8mm!
Enjoy a meatball 'sangwedge:"
LIVE! At Aunt Clara's
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!
Recorded June 11th 2011:
Aunt Clara Aunt Millie
Typical Sunday Dinner:
Enjoy a meatball 'sangwedge:"
LIVE! At Aunt Clara's
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!
Recorded June 11th 2011:
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....
Aunt Clara Aunt Millie
Clara's Sunday Leftovers 1080p (p for Pasta)
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 HD
Italian Sunday Dinner HD
Italian Sunday Dinner MANGIA! HD
Italian Sunday Dinner HDItalian Sunday Dinner MANGIA! HD
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!
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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:
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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:
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