Help - Trying to date old movies

Hi,

I am trying to date some 16mm movies from my great-grandparents. Can anyone help me identify this car?

Thanks,

Mark

Can't id the make but would say late 20s

Edit :maybe studebaker

Trying to upload a pic of a 1927 studebaker commander but this phone is acting up.

Here you go Rp1967: 1927 Studebaker Commander Regal. It might even be the same color!

Are you going to have them converted to DVD's? That would be amazing.

That's the exact pic i was trying to pull from Google, thanks Dwight

Thanks Dwight and Rp1967. A few seconds later in the film, the driver exits via the passenger side. So it makes sense the car is at least a few years older than the film. My great uncle owned a Ford dealership in Cleveland, so not surprisingly a lot of the other cars I am seeing are Model A's.

Seeing this film has been awesome. There are several more to go through too. They will all be on DVD, complete with captions so all of these details aren't lost forever.

Thanks again!

Mark

We'd love to see them.

I believe that the license plate says, 1930.

mikeburch

I believe the two cars have different cowl lights. The ones in the color photo, seem to be cowl band mounted.

mikeburch

I believe the two cars have different cowl lights. The ones in the color photo, seem to be cowl band mounted.

mikeburch

The visor is different, too.

It is a 1928 Nash Special 6, not a Studebaker.

Terry

Even though you are going to convert the films to current DVD format,

be sure to preserve carefully the original 16 mm films.

At the AACA Annual Meeting, I have seen old 16mm films projected on

original projectors; I have also seen films shown that had been converted

to DVD. The converted films AREN'T EVEN CLOSE to the originals in

clarity and crispness.

John,

I have no idea about this at all, but does it have anything to do with the process or quality of the conversion?

Dwight

I'm not a film expert in the least, Dwight.

One would think that some processes are better than others.

I just like to see history preserved.

And in 10 or 15 years, DVD's will likely be

an outdated technology, forcing conversion to

yet another format. Since a copy of a copy of a copy

may be even hazier, the ORIGINALS of anything should

be kept and carefully preserved.

A few years ago, the comic "Peanuts" was published

in its entirety. The compilers needed original newspapers

to create the book series, not copies or microfilm--and they found

it difficult to locate some early strips since many libraries had

discarded the original papers and had thought they were

doing well by microfilming the content.