The Historical Society recently installed an audio/video workstation to support the digitization of our extensive collection of oral histories, movie films, and videotapes. Many of the Society’s recordings are growing weaker with time, so converting them to digital formats allows us to preserve them for generations to come. Director Dave Rusher has just completed work on Costa Mesa’s 25th Anniversary oral history collection. Now he’s working on reel-to-reel recordings, starting with a tape of the very first meeting of the Society in 1966. Director Bob Palazzola has completed the rescue of 50 local history VHS videotapes and is starting to work on the SAAAB videotape collection. Shown here is the new workstation in action – digitizing a tape from the Helen (Vidal) Humphreys collection. This recording is in Spanish – habla Español, anyone?
