WATCH: Wyoming Family Vacation From The 1940s

There was a time when Dad would bring out the old movie projector when we wanted to remember our favorite family vacations.

But we don't "film" anything anymore. Nor do we use videotape.

Today we record with digital devices and post online.

A new twist is taking those old family memories, preserved on film, and posting them to the internet.

"Summer in Wyoming" is a silent, color home movie.

Some background music was added to it in place of the old sound of a home movie projector.

The travelogue-style film likely dates to the mid to late 1940s and takes the viewer around Wyoming.

The film features footage beginning on the University of Wyoming Science Summer Camp campus before following a group of students and professors from the camp’s botany class through the rugged Wyoming wilderness.

The film also features footage of Navajo Indians in the town of Cheyenne working on traditional jewelry, as well as shots from the famous Cheyenne Rodeo.

While the film is silent, it does feature text cue cards that explain what the viewer is seeing.

It opens, with a title page written in a drawn outline of a bucking horse (0:08).

View of the Rockies from lookout point (0:16).

Timber sign along the highway that reads “University of Wyoming Science Summer Camp” (0:28).

Various camp personnel walk out of the cabin towards the camera (0:40).

Green contrasts the deep blue of the lake, patches of snow dot the rocky landscape, and camp botany class traverses “the gap” between the Laramie Range and the Bighorn Mountains (0:55).

Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed.

For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan, and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm, and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction.

If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, they would love to hear from you. Contact them at this link.