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dunric@yahoo.com - 28 Oct 2005 09:59 GMT
Hey all,

I stumbled upon a really interesting website that I ended up spending a
couple of hours viewing. A man near Boston has been developing ancient
film on old cameras he has purchased over the years, some film locked
inside the cameras for as long as 65 years!

These are truly remarkable snapshots of time and space. Many of the
people in the photographs on the following webpage are long past:

http://westfordcomp.com/updated/found.htm

The most engaging pictures are in the "Soldier's Camera", which appears
to show several dozen snapshots of American life just days after World
War II ended.

It's like walking into a movie, or a dream...or both.

Paul
Bobcat - 28 Oct 2005 18:28 GMT
> Hey all,
>
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> It's like walking into a movie, or a dream...or both.
> Paul

Or like walking into your past. I found photos by the camera I had as a
kid - the Kodak Baby Brownie Special. A perfect, indestructible, cheap
little camera, ideal for dropping, misplacing and all the other things a kid
does to a camera. This led me to another website where I printed off the
same manual of  instructions I got with my Baby Brownie, containing the
instructions I largely ignored. I still have 2" X 3" photos I took with my
childhood camera of my friends, my dog, my parents, and everything else of
interest around me while growing up in a Canada far different from today  -
and yet in some ways, still the same.
Bobcat - 29 Oct 2005 18:16 GMT
>> Hey all,
>>
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
>> It's like walking into a movie, or a dream...or both.
>> Paul

>  I still have 2" X 3" photos I took with my childhood camera...

Actually, I see in a website that the photos were even smaller - 1 5/8" X 2
1/2"!
Diverse Art - 28 Oct 2005 22:02 GMT
> It's like walking into a movie, or a dream...or both.

Fascinating site, but someone should explain to the guy how to make
thumbnails for those of us without broadband ... jeez, that page took a
long time to load... maybe I'll drop him an email.

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