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 WELCOME TO                            

           OLD FAMILY MOVIES:  Poetry Video

                             New Media Memoir 

                            Mom & Dad, Christmas 1939

 CELEBRATE:        Family Reunions    

                                Traditional American Values           

                                Childhood Recollection

                                Spiritual Communion with Ancestors

                                Memory of Times Past

Old Family Movies:

• Focuses collected family mementos into emotional lyric stories

• Adds an intimate, personal voice to otherwise silent documents

• Unites image and word about people we love in a uniquely soothing rapport

• Animates the memory of lost family members more dramatically than static pictures

•  Shares solitary recollection with a communal, even world-wide audience

                            Robert Kirschten, Ph.D.

   Director of Creative Writing at Prarie View A&M University:

             "Most important to note: OLD FAMILY MOVIES

              is not only about my family;  it is a new-media format

              for how you remember your family."

                    OUR MOTTO:  "BUILD A MEMORY"

What is Poetry Video?

Poetry video is the art of matching spoken-word performance with visual images from the poem's subject. 

Combined into a digital video, words and pictures blend to form an intense, vivid, visual memory.

More animated than scrap-booking, less aggressive --and more focused-- than streamed video,

poetry video communicates your personal past from the movie that is already in your heart.

     Mom, Chicago, 1920

Longwood Drive, Chicago       1919, Mom age 7, 

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