Exploding film and Olan Mills

<p>Wrestling with a snake in the dark etc.<br>

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<p>The mattress was probably a casualty of a kid's sleeping "accident", then too smelly to be near the tents. That's why it's abandoned, where it will annoy the chipmunks. I've seen/smelled worse in Scout camps. Ain't it great when a roll of film is like a Slinky in the dark? Gene, you showed heroic patience getting it on the reel. </p>

<p>There are eight million stories in The Naked City. This has been one of them.</p>

<p>Many more here.<br>

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<p>Did you notice that the last image (owen mills labeled) was still in a printing frame?</p>

<p>It's the 8,000,001st story that keeps us coming back.</p>

<p>Thanks for braving the darkroom snake.</p>

Thanks for a great post. I just love your comments they are often so poignant. I imagine whothe owners

were and why the film was forgotten. Here is a bautiful little Girl and Olan Mills did good workthat was

dutifully copied ...to no avail. This lady must be over 60 now? Probably still good looking!

<p>The Olan Mills picture appears to be in an enlarging easel. Looks like someone was trying to make a copy negative off of it, which would be consistent with a serious photographer. But shooting 10 identical frames sounds more like an amateur who wants 10 copies and doesn't know enough to shoot once, print 10 times.</p>

<p>Aah yes, we have all wrestled that snake....kudos for taming it. Fascinating to see a time when people made an eight exposure film last for a full year. I have processed film that has had two Christmases on it!<br>

People just don't seem to treasure images like they used to, much like cars, they are just another throw away commodity. Old man rant is over :)</p>

 

<p>You would think that people would take pictures of their cars if only to identify it in a sea of like looking cars in the mall parking lot. </p>

<p>I think that is why so many people opt for the alarm system in their new cars. They aren't afraid of having it stolen. They want to push the remote button and have the lights flash and the horn blare.</p>

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<p>I agree with all of you old bastards.</p>

<p>Another nice series, Gene. When I looked through some old family photo albums I found a fair number of pictures when people posed with their cars. When I was in high school my dad sent me to his brothers Chevy dealership to pick up a 1972 Caprice. When I got home I took a "selfie" with my Konica Auto S2 on a roll of High Speed Ektachrome.</p>

<p>So that was what "Camp Granada" was like. When I was in the Scouts, it was two man pup tents, no floor and no mattresses. We also cooked over a camp fire. - Meanwhile over at the adults tents, there were army cots and a two burner Coleman stove.</p>

<p>Thanks <strong>Gene</strong>, another fascinating post. That camp looks a little more primitive that the ones I grew up with... Usually pretty basic bunk houses were the norm, down here.</p>

I tray developed a roll of VP122 from 1957 not so long ago. The curl was a little tricky

at first.

 

The car reminds me of a picture of my grandmother in a car that my father doesn't

remember.

<p>You haven't been to a BMW Forum lately. People still take pictures of their cars...;-)</p>

<p>Great post.</p>