From Kiplinger's Retirement Report:
As their parents age, baby boomers are turning to video biographies to preserve their family history. [C]ompanies intersperse newsreel footage and historical photographs with family pictures, home movies, period music and interviews. They pan and zoom in on still photographs to bring them to life. The result is a cross between producer Ken Burns' Baseball and all those mementos in the attic.
"Families have boxes of memorabilia, but they don't have the capacity to make something other than an archive," says Jim Naylor, co-owner of Biographica. "We help the family turn all this into a story that can be passed along."
The cost ranges from $2,000 to $10,000, and the length of the piece can run from ten minutes to an hour.
