Somewhere in your building there’s a box. Photographs from the early years. Film nobody has threaded in decades. The record of how all this was built. We’re historians for family businesses: we bring that record back into the light, as short documentary films your customers see every month.
Made from material that was sitting in a box.
There’s a photograph of the founder hanging somewhere in your building. Customers ask about it. New hires ask about it. At some point every week, somebody says “how did this place get started?” and one of you tells the story again.
That story is why people trust you over the company that opened last year. It’s why customers stay, why good people want to work for you, why your name means something in this town.
And right now, the proof of it is in a shoebox.
Meanwhile the internet fills up with content nobody made and nobody will remember. Generated ads. Stock faces. The same templates wearing different logos. Against all of that, one photograph of your founder in 1974 carries more weight than anything a computer will ever produce, for the simplest reason there is: it happened, and you can prove it.
Your competitors can copy your prices. They can copy your look. They cannot copy your fifty years.
Every month we go into your archive, the photographs, the film and tapes, the news clippings, the home video, and bring out two true stories, restored and told cinematically as short documentary films.
Your customers watch them on social media. They also belong on your website, in your emails, at your front counter, and in your hiring. A record this good shouldn’t live in one place.
And the voice telling those stories is yours. We sit down with your founder and your family the way historians always have, in recorded conversation, so the narration over those old photographs is Dad actually telling it. Not a script. Not an actor. Testimony.
$1,500
Two films a month
Two films a month: $1,500.
$3,000
Four films a month
Four films a month: $3,000.
Plus a one time intake where we digitize, restore, and catalog everything you have into a Story Library your family owns forever. Whether we work together for one year or twenty, the record is yours.
We are not a marketing agency, and we don’t make ads. That’s written into every agreement. If you have marketing people, they keep their job. We do the one thing they can’t do for you: we keep the record.
And no, this isn’t a job for the youngest person in the office who’s good with computers.
That’s a craft, and it’s the only one we practice.
Most of our clients don’t. That’s fine. Every film arrives ready to post, and either we handle the posting with you, or we hand you a rhythm so simple your office manager runs it in ten minutes a month.
And if the feed never takes off, the films still work: on the website, in the lobby, at the trade show booth, in front of every person you’re trying to hire.
Your history is not a social media strategy. It’s an asset that will outlast every platform. The feed is just the first place it’s seen.
The Archive Review. Don’t organize anything. Don’t dig through the boxes. Take a few photographs of what you have, even just the boxes themselves, and send them over. We’ll tell you what you’re sitting on.
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A written assessment of what your archive holds.
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The stories inside it.
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What your first three months of films would look like.
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Exactly what it costs. All of it before you commit to a thing.
The Archive Review is $500, and every dollar credits toward your intake if we work together. Think of it as a deposit on your own history.
One honest warning, because it’s our field and we’d be negligent not to give it: archives don’t wait. Film fades. Tape degrades. And the people who remember what’s in the photographs won’t be here for every anniversary. Whatever you decide about us, get the boxes out of the garage. That advice is free.
We’re brothers. We started this company after losing our father before we ever filmed him. We have his voice on an old recording. We never got the conversation.
So when your family hands us the box, we treat it the way we wish someone had treated ours. Not as content. As the record of who you are.
Dickens Brothers. Your historian.
Soren or Eriksen will call you within two business days to talk through what you have. If you didn’t upload photos, no problem. When we talk, we’ll tell you the easiest way to get them to us. In the meantime: get the boxes somewhere cool and dry.
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