Wow! home movies...

[DjDoornob]

Last night I found some old 8mm camcorder tapes of my youth. Many of the tapes had Wildwood scenes and they were awesome!

I didn't get to watch all of them yet, but I have boardwalk, hotel, and pier footage from 1990 -

Last night I watched 1991.

There was-

Midway pier- Riding the bumber boats behind castle drac., riding the bumper cars, great background shots...

*** a COMPLETE ride through the dungeon ride (!!!!!) (I hope to put this part on DVD so I can send it to anyone that would want it- I mean, you'd have to put up with me and my father's stupid comments and my obnoxious early 90's 11 year old haircut, but besides that this is golden!). Shots outside the castle on line.

Hunts (probably Conkos at this point)-
Riding some train coaster (Log Flume and Hunt's Horror in the background), the Golden Nugget, and some random funhouse with moving animals (looked pretty cool, anyone know what this was???).

Boardwalk- "shoot the geek" paintball game, what I think is a Hot Spot, and the Coke-a-Cola sign in the background....

...all around good stuff.

I can't wait to check out the other years.

[FlyinGN]

wow cool find!!

[Robert]

DjDoornob, I really want a copy of those tapes! I have some video myself taken in 1998 of all the piers, plus ride throughs of the Chamber of Checkers, Casa Macabra dark ride, Dark River, Golden Nugget, Dante's. The outside of the castle at night for 10 minutes. I also have audio tape recordings of the dark rides including a few walks through the castle and one time on the dungeon. I failed to video inside the castle even though I had my video camera with me, I was afraid some monster would see me taping and tell me to stop or something. Please PM me about those videos inside the dungeon and Hunt's. Thanks, Wildwood fan since 1980 (my first time there I think), Robert K.

[crazyaboutwildwood]

I would love to see them!

[bikerchik]

robert said:

I was afraid some monster would see me taping and tell me to stop or something.

haha.....Robert, you're too much.

[DjDoornob]

Robert and anyone else that's interested-

I'm going to edit them nicely and transfer them to DVD (just the stuff you'd be interested in, certainly not my whole family vacation), at which point i'd be more than happy to get copies out.

However, it might be a little while before they are ready. The tapes are from my father's old 8MM camcorder, which is pretty much broken. I'm working on fixing the situation (namely buying a new 8MM camcorder), but it's also mid-summer and I'd rather spend my money on Slappy Frog on the boardwalk. So unless I can fix the old camera (which is still very possible), I might wait until the summer is over to transfer the tapes.