Seventy five year old photographs ... amazing!

Keith

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Images from the first roll scanned of a collection of seventy five year old film, sixteen rolls in all ... described in this thread:


I've selected twelve images from the first roll scanned which was Kodak Panatomic and very difficult to scan. The film was still very tight and the density of the negatives made scanning extremely slow but it's a hell of film image wise IMO. I know very little detail about the photos but do know that this roll was shot in the USA.

Please enjoy ... comments and opinions welcome. :)


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Keith, I logged in under a couple of different browsers, and the photos are whited-out, with a message of "Content Protected By Owner". Any suggestions?
 
Same here.... only "contents protected by owner" ...

EDIT: visible now .... that is impressive !!! Wow !!!
 
dexdog said:
Keith, I logged in under a couple of different browsers, and the photos are whited-out, with a message of "Content Protected By Owner". Any suggestions?
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I think that should be ok now ... I had them password protected on my site. I didn't realise it would have that affect here! Silly me! :eek:
 
Boy do I like that first shot!

Those closed eyes because of the slow burning flash bulb, the cars in the background, the guy on the left who stealthily put his hand on his girlfriends breast, the lorry with luggage and the 'night phone' # printed on the side.

Brilliant! Sure hope there will be more shots like that!

Keep up the good work Keith! Good luck on the remainder of your task!
 
If I had to guess, faking it from the landscapes, I would say that these shots were taken in California. Thanks for posting, the pictures look pretty good given the age and the tightly coiled condition of the film.
 
What jumped out at me was that the second one shows a world before shipping containers. The washing line shot is great, too. It must be startling for you to see these come to life. I wonder how many people thought about throwing them away during the last 75 years.
 
Great Keith, I'm amazed at the quality of the artificial lighting in the first one. Maybe it is just under a spot lamp but the source looks lower. It is wide an very well done. Also the girl with the horse on the hillside, the photographer used a fill flash and it is perfect. If this is in the US it is probably somewhere near Santa Barbara, CA. As you can see we 'stole' Eucalyptus from you. There is a horse, girl, sand scene that looks like I can see the Channel Islands in the distance.
 
Well done Keith - thanks for sharing! Some interesting images, and perhaps old memories for the family.. I also like the first one especially, though they are all quite good!
 
Thank you so much for sharing those photos. Looking at those images is like a brief trip in a time machine. But what is more striking to me is the human element. The first image, for example -- such a pleasant gathering of young men and women, with hopes, dreams, lusts, failures, ambitions etc. ... obviously those people are all familiar to each other and enjoying that evening as a group. It's striking to think that each of those individuals is probably long dead by now.
 
BTW, I also have to salute the photographer, whoever he or she was. Using the technology of the day, I would imagine it wasn't easy to consistently get good photos. The person who took these photos obviously had an eye for composition, and they must have had decent equipment to get these shots.
 
So much for all of the warnings to "Process promptly". Film is a lot tougher than we think. Great project! Keep going!
 
Regarding the locations these were taken at: in Keith's original RFF post, the film canisters are all labeled with locations in the Pacific and Asia, including Australia. But there's also a couple canisters labeled "Amerika".

The eucalyptus trees could mean Australia. But then again, it could be SoCal.
 
I have seen lots of eucalyptus trees in Peru, NZ, Bolivia and Ecuador, as well as Australia and USA. Widely used species for reforestation efforts.


bobby_novatron said:
Regarding the locations these were taken at: in Keith's original RFF post, the film canisters are all labeled with locations in the Pacific and Asia, including Australia. But there's also a couple canisters labeled "Amerika".

The eucalyptus trees could mean Australia. But then again, it could be SoCal.
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