Kodak brought this camera to market, at a cost of about $25, right at the time I was born.  Exposure was set with a dial around a fixed focus lens meaning that focus was not adjustable, and you had to choose the distance between the nearest and farthest objects as you filmed so that a “sharp enough” focus was produced. The learning curve must have been interesting!

Each 3-inch reel held about 3 minutes of entertainment. On occasion, we got the projector out and made a family evening out of it. It took time to thread the film through the guides, then rewind it at the end, and it was a real downer if the projector lamp blew without a replacement on hand, but we loved those evenings. With each new child (and ultimately there were five of us) it brought more amusement.

As a young adult I decided to collect all of those reels and splice them into larger ones. I spent hours viewing, editing, and splicing snippets of our lives. I then had it professionally formatted for a VHS video, the go-to technology of the time. It has since been reformatted for computer use but I imagine its days in that realm are numbered as well.