Slides were a common way to share awesome pictures and tell a story. But they are mute... obviously. Unless when combined with a cassette tape that narrates the story through music and voice, signalling when to project the next breathtaking view of space.
For some time now I have been wanting to bring these embodiments of humble 60's to 80's entertainment into the more easily accessible digital domain. It's rather simple: Scan the slides in high resolution, restore them, digitize the cassette with a good quality cassette recorder, restore if needed. Synchronize the two inertly separated mediums in a video editing program and voila!
I've ordered one to try out as a proof-of-concept. To see if it works.
If anybody would be willing to loan theirs, I will put the end product on YouTube and return the material and high quality scans, audio file and video file.
After some weeks of waiting the first set arrived, and here is the result:
