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    Recorded History is a digital media production company that facilitates oral history projects for families, businesses and non-profit organizations. What can Recorded History do for you? Time will tell.
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Early spring baseball

It’s too nice to stay inside today…perfect for a ride along the bluff to catch the start of a three-game series between Air Force and the University of Portland.

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Laurelhurst Elementary House Party

Without the involved parents of Laurelhurst Elementary School students, there wouldn’t be enough funding to support art, PE, music, technology and library programs, Spanish, and the K/1 teaching assistant positions. Thanks to Laurelhurst Foundation house parties like this one at Kama Simonds’ childhood home (worth noting, earlier the McMenamin brothers!) and the generosity of the Laurelhurst community, the budget gap is closing … Read more

Recorded History gets an upgrade

Great news in Recorded History’s Creative Department: UPGRADE TIME! Thanks to a very happy client, at this very moment I am installing a brand new Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Production Premium, which comes with so many new programs, I can’t even name them off the top of my head (so I posted a photo ==>) It’s … Read more

2012 Slough Celebration Award Winners

Slough Celebration!

2011 Slough Gala, a set on Flickr. Thanks to Jane Van Dyke and the rest of the Columbia Slough Watershed Council staff, volunteers and donors for a wonderful gala event at the Melody Ballroom. Recorded History was proud to play a part as producer for the award winners’ films and as photographer for the event. … Read more

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Moving Family Portraits

  Your stories are valuable. This is why I flew all the way to Maryland to interview the parents-in-law of a client interested in family history. The subjects, the youngest 70′s-ish people I’ve ever met, said, “oh hun, no one wants to hear our story. Why are we doing this?” For the next two hours … Read more

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When Pam Met Curtis

It’s official. This is how Pam met Curtis as told by the people who were there: Pam and Curtis…edited a bit for timing. No doubt the vignettes in the movie When Harry Met Sally were a little neater, cleaner and didn’t cause anyone tears (those were actors, by the way), but this is real life in all … Read more

Recorded History makes history

Recently I traveled to Los Angeles to interview Pamela and Curtis Reis, a wise and wonderful couple who have lived exciting lives full of accomplishments and travel.  They shared memories of their childhoods, as kids growing up in Pennsylvania and New York, their education, careers, and 30+-year marriage. Excelling in school at Penn and Cornell, both wound … Read more

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Recorded History is Open for Business

You know you need a video for your site, right?  But you are worried about balancing time and quality? Recorded History is Portland’s newest mini-media production house, specializing in the production of customer testimonials, product information and executive interview videos that are just the right size for your business needs with exceptional quality that’s affordable. … Read more

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