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Tommy Hawkins Film Collection Preservation

Sponsored Project

  • Dean Prator, Director/Producer
Roughly 1000 16mm color film reels of various sizes in stacked containers.

About the Project

I have been tasked to have roughly 1,000 16mm Southern California sports films preserved and restored to HD digital video from the Tommy Hawkins Film Collection. Mr. Hawkins himself had stored this unseen footage for over 50 years and began having the footage transferred to video before his unexpected death in 2017 at age 80.

These color films with audio are a sports time capsule of yesteryear's legendary sports figures and teams at the high school, college, and professional levels. If you can think of a sport from the 1970s, it's probably in this collection.