Found Film Anyone???

[Wayne R. Scott]

Have any of you bought a camera at a swap meet, junk store, thrift store, auction etc. and found a roll of film in it? Then developed the film to see who or what as been sleeping inside the camera for all of these years?

I received my Olympus RC in the mail today and in it was a roll of Kodak 400 color film. Not all that old of film, but I developed it any way and now I wonder what the story is that it is telling me.

Did this lovely young girl ask Santa for a Puppy? Did she set out milk and cookies for Santa. Did she get her puppy and is this her puppy's birthday party? Is she all grown up now with babes of her own?

I can see that I need to replace the light seals as there is evidence of light leaks on the film. 1/2 hour fix at most.

Any one else have mystery film that they have developed? I have a couple of other rolls from cameras that I have yet to develop. Kodachrome 25 and some verichrome I think.

Any way here are some of the shots from this roll.

Wayne

 

[afaceinthecrowd]

I've found a few rolls and had them processed but don't have much to show for it. One old roll of 127 with a few faint images. It's kind of like a treasure hunt. I buy 35mm slides in thrift stores when I see them .... kind of fun to see where people went on their vacations 😉 The last set I found was taken by an awful photograher ... I pity the friends and relatives that had to sit through them year after year.

dan

 

[cp_ste.croix]

i've had two cameras so far that came with a film canister inside, and no luck on any images. boy was i ever excited though...it is sort of the photographic equivilant of found poetry.

I remember seeing a thing about a guy who used other people's random photos (unclaimed from a walmart) as the basis for his art...

 

[Doug]

I bought a Canon ELPH on eBay last year from a gent in New England, and it arrived with half a roll exposed. Shots were of him and his wife, and at the school where he teaches. I emailed him the scans of his pics...

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

Doug,

I wish I knew who this camera belonged to in the past, as I would e-mail the photos to them. I bought at auction from Goodwill in Florida and have no idea who they are. 😕

Wayne

 

[Doug]

I'm sure they'd appreicate it too, Wayne... But Good Will seems a barrier to that. Even if someone requests a receipt I don't think they record a name. Too bad. It was really easy for me, given the direct contact for the purchase.

 

[Nick R.]

I have a couple of shots from film I found in a camera from the FSU in my gallery. It's kind of exciting finding old film; it's like photographic archeology. I was lucky that the film I found was black and white so I could develop it myself.

There's a website whose URL I can't recall right now with lots of found film shots. Maybe someone will post it.

 

[Wayne R. Scott]

Here is one link:

http://www.bighappyfunhouse.com/


Wayne

 

[Krasnaya_Zvezda]

A few years back my sister in law went on a trip to Maine, and brought me a Herco Imperial 620. It sat around the house for the longest time, and one day I opened it up, and discovered film inside, which I had processed.
Well, I got these photos back (plus a few more) and I was puzzled... who are these people? You see, I had forgotten where the camera came from. I thought it was one of a collection I had received from a deceased relative. I emailed these photos around to my relatives, no one knew who this guy and girl were. Then one day, my sister in law said, "Do you still have that little old camera I brought you from Maine?" Mystery solved. I still don't know the story behind these photos, but at least I know I shouldn't know.
The time frame of these shots has to be early 60s, looking at the hair and clothes styles. I didn't have this stuff processed until 2003.

 

[JoeFriday]

based on the fashion and housewares shown in the photos, I'd guess they're from the late 70s or very early 80s

 

[Nick R.]

I finally found the link to the site with found film shots:
Found film
It's a nice collection with good commentary.

 

[furcafe]

A roll of C41 film came was inside a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye I bought in an antique/knick-knack store here in DC many years ago. The camera was the French version, judging from the markings, & from the 2 or 2 pictures that survived, my guess is that the owner was in the military or gov't service somewhere in SE Asia in the mid to late 1960s.

FYI, there have been threads on found film on the photo.net "Classic Cameras" forum (http://www.photo.net/bboard/forum?topic_id=1903).