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Instructional Movies For Slide Preparation

Watch these short movies for clear instructions on how to orient slides, stack them in the proper order, prep carousels, and organize your collection for smooth, accurate digitizing. PLEASE NOTE: CLICK THE PICTURES TO PLAY THE MOVIES!

Identify Fronts and Backs

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Movie thumbnail: how to determine the front and back of slides
Determine Front vs. Back

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Example showing the fronts of slides with logos facing the correct direction
Slide Fronts
Example showing the backs of slides, opposite side of the mount
Slide Backs

Slide Orientation & Stacking

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Movie thumbnail: which side faces the screen for correct slide orientation
This Side Faces the Screen

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Organizing Slides & Carousel Preparation

Waxed Paper Box Organizing Movie
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Movie thumbnail: using a waxed paper box to organize slides
Use a Waxed Paper Box to Organize

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Carousel Preparation Movie
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Movie thumbnail: preparing your Kodak or Sawyer carousel
Prep Your Carousel Correctly

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Paper Photo Prep Instructions
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Movie thumbnail: how to prepare paper photos for scanning
How to Prep Paper Photos

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Bell and Howell Slide Cube Movie
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Movie thumbnail: organizing Bell & Howell slide cubes
Organizing Bell & Howell Cubes

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Examples of slide storage containers that make scanning difficult
See Containers That Make Scanning Harder

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You Don’t Always Get What You Think You Are Paying For

250 Slides Scanned to Images

Price Comparison — May 1st 2026
Item
Legacy Box
10 items = 250 slides
⚠ “Sale” every single day of the year
Affordable Scanning
250 slides, flat rate
✓ One real price. No games.
Digitizing Kit
250 slides (10 items)
$319.98 regular
$112.00 “Mothersday”
These “sales” have been running every day for years. The “regular” price is fake.
$122.50
250 slides @ 49¢ each
Disc Set
Physical media with your images
$19.99
Add-on cost
FREE
DVD data disc included with every order
Cloud / Online Viewing
FREE* for 30 days
*Then $4.99 every month — AUTO-BILLED. You signed up for this whether you realized it or not.
FREE — 6 months
No subscription. No auto-billing. Ever.
Processing / Editing
What happens to your images?
FREE
Automated batch scanning @ 2,400 PPI. No individual editing. No color correction. No Photoshop. What you get is what the machine produces.
FREE — Expert Photoshop
Every 4,000 PPI scan individually color-corrected, exposure-adjusted, and cropped by a real person.
Scanning Resolution
Higher = more detail
2,400 ppi
Who scans at this low of a resolution these days?.
4,000 ppi
Our resolution is at almost twice as many pixels.
Shipping
Round trip
$15.95
One-way (their prepaid label — they are the shipper, not you)
$33.90
$16.95 to us + $16.95 back to you. USPS Priority Mail with tracking.
Estimated Taxes
$11.84
Wisconsin residents ONLY. (5.5%)
Discount Code
MOTHERSDAY
This code — or one just like it — is always available. The “regular” price without it is simply a made-up number.
No code needed.
Our current price is always our real price.
TOTAL
Legacy Box "regular price"
$367.76
($319.98 kit + $19.99 disc + $15.95 ship + $11.84 tax)
Nobody actually pays this — it exists only to make the “sale” look impressive.
$156.40
Always. No games.
TOTAL
Legacy Box “sale” price
$159.78
This is actually not a bad price if you can live with low resolution scanning and NO PHOTOSHOP editing. But, why would you?
Plus $4.99/month cloud subscription — auto-billed until you cancel.
That is $59.88 more per year if you forget to cancel.
Total: $156.40
You get scanning at 4,000 PPI PLUS FREE Photoshop editing of every scan and we are still $3.30 less expensive than their biggest sale of the year.
You save $211.36 vs their “regular price which they never charge.”

Legacy Box Checkout Screenshot — Updated Periodically

This is what their checkout actually looks like. Notice the auto-billing subscription buried in the fine print.

⚠ Legacy Box Actual Checkout — 250 Slides — Updated Periodically
Legacy Box pricing comparison showing hidden fees and auto-billing subscription
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