# The Grandpa Tapes - A Tribute to Charles Schwartz (1908-1993)

Working for clients is fun and typically pays very well but some projects provide a level of satisfaction that exceed the wildest of incomes. In this case, I'm talking about a tribute DVD I cobbled together for relatives as part of a Christmas Holiday present. Analog Tape Way Back When In 1992, I borrowed a VHS camera from my girlfriend's brother and filmed my grandfather. That girl is now my wife and her brother Don is my brother-in-law. Almost 17 years later, I rediscovered my VHS recording, digitized it, then while the parents were away on vacation, I went through their house and collected all the photos of my grandfather, Charles Schwartz - my mom's father. I scanned in old pictures from the 1930s, wedding pictures from 1961, and even found my very first photos in old scrapbooks from 1970. With pictures and video in hand, I then created a Vegas project and started assembling the story. This was not a video project that was going to have lots of cuts and fancy effects as the goal was really to capture the feel of the man and what it was like to visit my grandfather on a Sunday afternoon. Enter Charles Schwartz (1908-1993) - 85 Years of Wisdom At the time I filmed Charles at his home at 518 Mile Square Road in Yonkers, New York, he was 84 years old. In the resulting hour long DVD we covered all the big topics - from sex, first dates, jobs, goals, dreams, education, global warming, crime, immigration, discrimination, World War 2, guns, capital punishment, prostitution,…

- Kind: Short
- Year: 2008
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: ChuckScott.com
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ChuckingIt.com-18)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/ChuckingIt.com-18?play=1)