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The ) OAKVILLE SYMDHONY ORCHESTRA n?klsm make mmfi 8?(; 323 Church St. (in Miller Mews) call 844â€"7984 § Church Reynolds 845â€"1010 By KATHY YANCHUS Oakville Beaver Staff released book A Family Remembers focuses on the howâ€"to of taping and video recording family memoirs, the If you can press the record button _ 20th century answer to written memâ€" on a camcorder, you can make the oirs. past come alive. "It‘s not surprising people use camâ€" A living portrait is how Paul corders to capture the same events McLaughlin describes what he created _ they traditionally photograph," writes when he captured his 74â€"yearâ€"old _ McLaughlin."A lifetime‘s inundation father on video as he recounted stories of Kodak commercials do have their from his boyhood in Scotland. More effect. If camcorder manufacturers than this, however, the footage is a promoted their product as the perfect priceless heirloom, which _ means of producing family memories, McLaughlin treasures, and is thankful you can bet your pension plan that he took the opportunity to record . family memoir production would skyâ€" before his storyteller was gone forevâ€" _ rocket." er. By memoirs McLaughlin is referâ€" McLaughlin, an awardâ€"winning _ ring to the planned recording or taping writer and Ryerson Polytechnical _ of a conversation with a loved one, an Institute journalism instructor, feels event which can, in its simplest form, this alternative use of the camcorder _ be an informal chat on the livingroom will become more prevalent if people _ couch or an elaborate creation, suppleâ€" alter their thinking. mented with special lighting effects Instead of grabbing the video camâ€" and musical backdrop. era to record specific events like birthâ€" Imagine, says the author, if we had days and anniversaries, why not use it taped memoirs of people who lived to create a story, to interview older 300 years or 500 or even 1,000 years family members about their lives, ago. their hopes and dreams, even their "Imagine if we had native elders tragedies and failures. Or how about telling us what it was like on the marking the growth of children by Canadian plains in the17th or 18th McLaughlin says he was "obliviâ€" â€" two words â€" we had a tape or movie, _ own. preserving their thoughts about century..It would be priceless," says â€" ous" to the absence of much audioviâ€" something more ‘alive‘ so to Somewhat renewed with a sense of friends, school and other interests on _ McLaughlin who conceived the idea _ sual memorabilia of his family, particâ€" â€" speak....How sad, I thought, to have â€" having preserved an invaluable piece tape or video? for his compact but comprehensive _ ularly of his mother who passed away _ had the simple technology within our _ of family history for his children and We aren‘t told we can do this...," _ book after a series of events, beginâ€" in 1971, until his daughter Arianna _ grasp and not employed it." for himself, McLaughlin launched THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Friday, Nov. 12, 1993 â€" 14 Author Paul McLaughlin with the technology that allows you to make the past come alive. McLaughlin‘s new book, A Family Remembers, is a howâ€"to guide to creating audioâ€"visual family memoirs (Photo by Peter McCusker) says McLaughlin, whose recently ning with the birth of his daughter. came into the world. "I suddenly realized my daughter would never know my mother beyond a scattering of poorly taken phoâ€" tographs and the stories told by me and the few others still around who knew her well. If only â€" those famous When his father came to visit in 1987, McLaughlin felt an "urgent sense" to interview him. He mounted his camera on a tripod and discovered things about his father he never knew, providing him with a greater underâ€" standing of this life that preceded his Video Recorded Memories to help others do the same, a business he eventually closed in favor of writing the book. 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