Found film Nazi mystery...

Nikon Bob said:
It does not look like a bear to me. Just some famous historical figure wearing a tricorne hat riding Pegasus. A quick google showed that those hats were popular in the 18th century.

Bob
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Yeah, you're right :eek:

I just clicked the link to view at full-size and it's just some bloke wearing a hat and striking a strange pose (unless he's supposed to be pulling back on the reins with his left hand)

Oh well!

Scott
 
It's Vienna alright. Its the Opera house, the facade facing what is now the inner city ring road.

This would make it post 1938, Anschluss was March 12 1938. I doubt that Nazi sentinents rose high enough to fly the NSDAP banners prior to the "annexation".
 
It's the Vienna opera house alright...

http://www.tpiworldwide.com/pic_library/6313/IMG_1101.jpg


These shots may have been taken on April 2nd, 1938 when Hitler visited Vienna to proclaim the Austrian 'Anschluss' or annexation in to Germany.

(Hitler actually was born in Austria, not German... It a long story to say the least...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anschluss#February_1938

Kind of a strange coincidence that you are possibly posting these shots 74 years and 5 days after the day they may have been taken on...

Now imagine if those images had been stored on an SD card, instead of film...
 
So, it is definitely Vienna some time on or after April 2, 1938. I am pretty sure I bought the FILCA cassettes from someone in Austria. The third frame is in fact only half a frame as the film was torn at that point. It shows a stocky man in jackboots and plus fours talking to an equally stocky woman leaning on a charabanc in a cobbled street. I haven't posted it because the neg is badly scratched and their heads and shoulders are cropped out of the picture. On closer inspection it looks like the exposed roll of negatives was being used to practice film loading as the images extend into the tongue that fed into the spool. This explains the scratches. Thanks for all your interest, it's just a shame there wasn't more left on the roll! Simon
 
I have one of those Kodak daylight loading tanks, but I hear they were horrible in operation....but made swell targets out on the range...

Interesting find Simon. Thanks for sharing
 
There is no problem with carrying an inversion tank and using that to develop film away from a darkroom. The only part requiring darkness is the loading of the film on to the reel(s) and a simple changing-bag, or maybe even a clothes-cupboard in a nighttime hotel-room, is sufficient.

The inversion tank would likely be more efficient in use too - there are good reasons why we aren't all using the various other styles of tank these days . . .
 
Way cool indeed.

Here is something to think about.

So if it's pre-war (1939) that would make it nearly 71~ years old. Having said that, you were able to recover something that is nearly 71 years old with little effort. If it were a digital file, would the format still be accessible 71 years from now? Could you even read a file in whatever media the digital was stored in 71 years from when you found it? Just something to think about :)
 
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