Cedar Point 1963. HD. 8mm film Digitally Restored from my grandfather's archives.

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Cedar Point 1963. HD. 8mm film Digitally Restored from my grandfather's archives.

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5 жыл бұрын

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8mm footage from my grandfather's film archives of his visits to Cedar Point in 1963. Digitally restored. HD.
The first year of The Cedar Point and Lake Erie Railroad.
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Rides and park features in order of appearance:
Cadillac Cars
Miniature Railway
the Mill Race
the Skywheel
the Beach
Paddlewheel Express
Merry-Go-Round
Monorail
the Sky Ride
Tumble Bug
unidentified
Dodgem
Wild Mouse
the Midway
Sideshows
A Daredevil
Octopus
Astronaut
Scamper
The Cedar Point and Lake Erie Railroad. With the Maud L and Albert engines.
Musical tracks provided by KZfaq include:
Lifting Dreams
Johann Strauss' the Blue Danube
Scott Joplin's the Entertainer
Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries
Round up on the prairie
Front porch blues
Tchaikovsky's Waltz of the Flowers.
30 hours went into making this, including recording the films over and over again due to some flaws in the restoration process. Thank you so much for watching. This may be uploaded again while I try to figure out the jitter aspect of the transfer.

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@lydiam972 8 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing these and bringing back my childhood Cedar Point memories! The train ride, the stagecoach ride(!), and beautiful shots of the double Ferris wheel, Skyride, and the flowers! So grateful that your grandfather was such a good cameraman! Wonderful!

@stevekov6740 Жыл бұрын

The Mill Race was THE ride in 1963 when my parents went to Cedar Point for the first time. In 1993 I went for the first time at age 10 and that was one of the first rides we went on in it's last season. I last went in 2019 and rode all of the new roller coasters. Though I am a HUGE coaster fan, it's cool to see how The Point once was before that era.

@abinormal1410 3 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1960. My parents had a boat at the marina. We would go to Cedar Point on the weekends in the summer. The horses on the merry-go- round had real horse hair tails. The monorail was so much fun until someone fell out and it was removed. Most importantly to me is the fact the no one believes me that they had a stagecoach ride. By golly there it was. I remember riding that as a young kid and every once in awhile a kid would get picked to ride up with the driver. Which I got to do. They eventually removed that as well after a wheel came off. Thank you for this wonderful home movie. You certainly made me very happy by sharing this. I still love and go to Cedar Point every year. Even worked there in 1978. Thank you!!!!

@stevebiesiada6338 3 жыл бұрын

Brings back so many memories, l remember all these rides back then we went every year, thank you, means a lot

@MeMyselfAndUs903 4 ай бұрын

18:04 double-decker horse and buggy ride. I had heard this existed in “the old days” of the park.

@jayducharme 5 ай бұрын

Remarkable restoration!

@cdjeeyore 11 ай бұрын

Great movies and memories. Looks like grandpa had a eye for the bathing beauties.😃

@karenjohnson9690 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing! I was a train girl in 1989. I saw Maude L carrying her passengers and had to say, "Maude!" She was a favorite. And some of those skeletons and buildings I got the pleasure of deepening and sweeping out, and then had to hide when a train came by. Ah, memories. I remember the flume as a kid (70's and '80's) and was sad when that was pulled. I had heard those fully cars had gone back further into the park, even though I must have been too young. My family would have ridden the carousel, old cars, bumper cars, flume ride and paddle wheel. A big surprise was that automobiles drove right onto the midway! We are taking my kids to Cedar Point in a few days, for the first time.

@ottodetroit 4 жыл бұрын

Nice reset. Found out last year the pinball and arcade games all gone. ✝️☹️

@MeMyselfAndUs903 4 ай бұрын

You did a great job producing this video. I like the audio you selected as well

@PatrickRyan150 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful times, great memories!

@Dwurban64 Жыл бұрын

This is AMAZING. I love Cedar Point and more specifically the CP&LE so to be able to see footage of it back when it first opened is just absolutely incredible. Thank you for posting this!

@jallenphotoart1369 3 жыл бұрын

Well done! These are awesome. Very fortunate that some back then took video footage. So cool to see how it all looked back then!

@danieljackett4193 Ай бұрын

Cedar Point without The Blue Streak? A place does not exist

@watchout361 4 жыл бұрын

I LOVED THE LOG RIDE! GREAT FILM.

@jamesslick4790 Жыл бұрын

Awesome footage! (Seeing a man light himself on fire and high dive into a pool is not something you see every day!😲) 1963 was the last year before the "Blue Streak" kicked off Cedar Point's rise to overtake Kennywood Park as the of "Roller Coaster Capitol of the World". As a Pittsburgher, I don't hold any grudge, Cedar Point DESRVES the title! Forget Disney! Get to the Point! 👍😊👍

@MeMyselfAndUs903 4 ай бұрын

17:33 OMG! There are people laying next to the train tracks. LOL

@Mikey90210 2 жыл бұрын

In 2022. This cable ride still scary to me. I go to cedar point but afraid of heights 😂 everytime I get in a ride I ask now u know u scared y the hell are you even on this 😅

@MeMyselfAndUs903 4 ай бұрын

A young kid at that time would be aged in their mid sixties as of 2024.

@MeMyselfAndUs903 4 ай бұрын

12:39 I wonder if those boats glided on a track.

@scott9752 4 жыл бұрын

This is amazing. Thank you for sharing!

@amusement420 5 жыл бұрын

Great shots. They saturated the colors. An old west hanging in boneville lol and large metal slides in the hot sun on the beach. we used to have those by our house. man were they scorching hot lol I have some 8mm on my channel.

@leskobruce 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you !

@RailroadStreet 5 жыл бұрын

Would it be possible to use some of your CP&LE R.R. footage in a video I'm working on?

@goofbaugh 5 жыл бұрын

Yes you may. Thank you for asking and I look forward to watching your video.

@mattyantha 4 жыл бұрын

Do you have a short description as to what tools you used to achieve this? Both hardware and software? Thanks.

@goofbaugh 4 жыл бұрын

I used the Wolverine 8mm & Super 8mm Reels to Digital MovieMaker Pro Film Digitizer, Film Scanner for the film. It's available for purchase on Amazon. It requires some trial and error runs and keeping the viewfinder clean of debris. For the video editing, titles and such, I use Pinnacle Studio 22 software. Hope that helps.

@mattyantha 4 жыл бұрын

@@goofbaugh thank you! I use a Magnasonic equivalent to the Wolverine (I swear they're the exact same). I'm fooling around with PowerDirector for the finalization, but I'm always open to other programs. I was impressed with your results and had to ask. Thanks again.