Images and footage of weddings, holidays and pieces of Santa Barbara history are being preserved thanks to the Santa Barbara community archives project that digitizes film rolls belonging to local families.
The project, initiated by the UCSB Library and Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society, has already led to the digitization and preservation of 4,000 feet of film spanning from the 1940s to the 1980s from 23 local families.
Thanks to the project, Cameron Foss got to see footage of her grandparents, Santa Barbara High School sweethearts, getting married. She also saw images of her dad as a toddler…