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Every birthday they get things. This year, give them the years.

Their whole life, in the photographs that recorded it — restored, coloured and set in motion to music. Played once at the table, remembered for a long time after.

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An old family birthday photograph, restored, coloured and brought to life

Why it lands better than another present

Because it is about them, and nothing else on the table is.

01
You can still make it tonight
Thirty to ninety minutes from paying to watching. Nothing to ship, nothing to arrive late. The gift you can still get right at eleven the night before.
02
Their oldest photographs come back best
The school portrait, the wedding photo, the faded one from a holiday nobody can date. Repaired, coloured, sharpened and gently brought to life — often the first time anyone has seen those faces in colour.
03
You choose the length and the price
$25.00 for 20 photographs up to $60.00 for 48. Priced per photo, paid once. A bigger life is welcome to a longer film.

The best birthday present is already on top of their wardrobe.

Every house has the album nobody opens — on the top shelf, gathering dust, brought down once a decade when someone visits. A whole life sitting in the dark. This is the one day of the year that genuinely deserves opening it, and the film hands it back in an order that makes sense.

The same photograph before and after restoration

Who this is for

Milestone birthdays most of all, but no birthday is too ordinary for it.

A 60th, 70th, 80th or 90th, where a speech is expected and nobody wants to give one.
A parent who says every year that they do not want anything.
A grandparent whose oldest photographs nobody has ever seen in colour.
Someone far away, who can be sent their own life instead of a parcel.

What you do

Choose the photographs. That is genuinely the whole job.

1
Raid the albums
Photograph the old prints with your phone if they were never scanned — that works perfectly. Then drag 20 to 48 of them into the order the years actually ran.
2
Choose the song and write the dedication
Pick from the library or upload the song from the year they were born. A few words open the film with their name on it.
3
Play it after the cake
It arrives by email within 30 to 90 minutes, ready for a phone, a laptop or the television.

What one looks like

Ordinary family photographs — some damaged, some black and white — as they come back.

Questions

How far ahead do I need to order?

You do not. Thirty to ninety minutes from paying, at any hour. Most people find this page the evening before.

Our photographs are prints in a shoebox.

Photograph them with your phone, straight out of the album. That is how most people do it. Imperfect light and a little glare are fine — the restoration handles far worse.

Can I use a song from the year they were born?

Yes. Upload it and it becomes the soundtrack, or choose from the library if you would rather not decide.

What does it cost?

Per photograph: $25.00 for 20, up to $60.00 for 48. Every film gets the same quality and the same features — more photographs simply means a longer one. Pay once, no subscription.

Give them the years.

Choose the photographs tonight and play it tomorrow.

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