"I decided that I should have the family films digitized, so that we'll always have a copy in the event of a catastrophe, he said. One had a label that stood out from the others: Martin Luther King. Ipock had heard stories about this film for years from his aunt and grandmother, Mary Ipock, and decided to digitize it first by going to a film store in Philadelphia. The result was an MP4 file, a 13-minute film in color."
"The first eight minutes of the film show footage of the Ipock family Jason Ipock's grandmother, aunt and father at the Philadelphia zoo in May 1950. The man behind the camera was Garrison Durham Ipock, Jason's grandfather. Garrison Ipock was a divinity student at Crozer Theological Seminary, in Upland, Pennsylvania, one year ahead of Martin Luther King. The last five minutes of the film show footage of 9 May 1950, the day of Garrison's graduation ceremony."
A family home film from 1950 was digitized into a 13-minute MP4 after an aunt decided to downsize and preserve the films. The film opens with eight minutes of Ipock family footage at the Philadelphia zoo in May 1950 and closes with five minutes of footage from 9 May 1950, the day of a graduation ceremony. The cameraman, Garrison Durham Ipock, was a Crozer Theological Seminary divinity student a year ahead of Martin Luther King and a World War II communications officer. Garrison owned one of the area's first televisions, and family stories say Martin Luther King, known as ML at the time, frequently visited to watch broadcasts.
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