Services | Clio Associates Center for Recording Life Stories

The ARCHIVAL LIFE STORY, complete and unabridged, is available on digital audio/CD and video/DVD formats. Each oral history session lasts up to two hours and recorded in our comfortable studio or another location chosen by the client. Advance preparation includes a specially designed Life Review Guide completed by the client which contains basic information and provides a general framework for the interview. When the project is finished, the Life Review Guide is returned to the client to keep as a primary historical document. The specially designed booklet is available only to clients and is not sold separately.
Fee options: $975 - $1695

The EDITED HIGHLIGHTS video/DVD consists of selections from the Archival Life Story, plus music, titles and from 75 to 100 visuals (photographs, slides, news clippings, certificates) to create a lively half-hour documentary.
Fee options: $975-$2750
See sample here from the oral history of Dr. Harvey King McArthur (windows media player)

"We're simply delighted, ecstatic, overjoyed and thrilled - I'm running out of adjectives - with the videotapes you and Sal did for us. And the fact they were done in time for our 52nd anniversary was really the icing on the cake! Our children have viewed the tapes and are as thrilled as Jim and I - at times laughing aloud at the memories they can share, and at other places shedding a tear...It's been a fabulous experience...Again, our sincere thanks."
Kay Higgins
Southampton, MA

HOUSE & PROPERTY INVENTORY VIDEO includes house histories and videotaped inventories of art, antiques and treasured collections, with or without narration; plus video documentation of house restorations and architectural histories.
Fee options: $350-$1100
See sample here (windows media player)

"Thank you for the wonderful job you did on my husband's video. Absolutely everyone loved it and was riveted by it...My husband was so moved...Thank you from the bottom of my heart."
Caron Hobin
Longmeadow, MA
"It was delightful to learn of your operation in Northampton. Although Silicon Valley may have the technology to do, well, almost everything, I've never found such a creative and eminently sensible service as the one you offer... Thank you so much!"
Dr.Thomas Nagy
Palo Alto, CA

SOME RECENT PROJECTS:

We create customized personal documentaries to promote an organization, commemorate a milestone in its history, and for fund raising purposes. Please contact us today to discuss your group's needs.

"Who Was Fred L. Wilson?", a video narration by Jane W. Curran, presented to the Fred L. Wilson School, Kannapolis, NC in commemoration of her late father.

An oral history with Sr. Kathleen Keating, SSJ, president emerita, Sisters of St. Joseph and Elms College, Chicopee, MA

Grynn & Barrett: The Greniers Photographers, Holyoke, MA - a personal documentary celebrating the 60 year history of a family owned business founded by patriarch R. Robert Grenier

The Boston Athenaeum, Boston, MA - a collection of video oral histories in preparation for the library's 2006 bicentennial.

Short educational video explaining the programs and mission of The Garden: A Center for Grieving Children and Teens based at the Hampshire Regional YMCA, Northampton, MA.

Anniversary video for The Center of Hope at Noble Hospital, Westfield, MA to be shown at the annual fundraising dinner.

5th anniversary video for the Irish Cultural Center at Elms College, Chicopee, MA and featured at a retirement brunch for the college president and center's founding director.

Video history to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Auxiliary at the Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton, MA in 2004.

Oral histories with Holocaust survivors for a permanent installation and traveling exhibit, "Condemned to Die: The Annihilation of a Rural Jewish Community, Roth, Germany 1933-1942" at Hatikvah Holocaust Education and Resource Center, Springfield, MA.

Oral histories with long-time residents for an exhibit and documentary, "Preserving Our Past: A Popular History of Southbridge" organized by the Jacob Edwards Library and town of Southbridge, MA.

A video history commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Plainfield (MA) Volunteer Firefighters' Association, including a selection of oral histories, historic photographs and documents.

Participants in our oral history workshops have travelled from Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and Pennsylvania to join us.
Here's what one recent attendee wrote to us:
"The workshop was invaluable. My enthusiasm for oral history has grown as a result...While you did not use a formal evaluation as most seminars do, my overall rating would be excellent. The pace, tone, and thoroughness were better that I expected. Your knowledge of the field is obvious as is your enthusiasm. And Sal did a great job on the technical piece...The program could easily be expanded to two days, and, quite frankly, is worth much more than your fee..."
Bob Price, Boxford, MA

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