Digitize your home movies!

Chat with film and video experts from Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound (MIPoPS). They will answer your questions on how to protect these valuable memories.

• Digitize your home videos! Bring in your own homemade film and videotapes  and get them safely digitized. We will have all the equipment and the expertise at your disposal.*
• Ask an Audiovisual Archivist! Do you have a mystery tape? Or want to know the best way to store your VHS collection? MIPoPS experts can help with identification, basic preservation and conservation actions, and digitization options.
• Moving Image Discovery Station! Check out our collection of film and video formats from over 100 years of film and video history.
• Take home a swag bag! Including a Home Movie tote bag, zines on audiovisual and digital preservation, a list of local resources for film and videotape digitization, stickers, how-tos for home movie care and more!

*Time available for digitization will be limited and will depend on demand. KCLS and MIPoPS can digitize the following formats:

• 8mm film
• VHS +VHS-C
• SVHS
• MiniDV
• Betamax
• 8mm video/Video8/Hi8
• Audiocassette

Registration not required.

Reasonable accommodation for people with disabilities is available by request. Email access@kcls.org at least seven days before the event. Automated closed captioning is always available for online events.