Posted on 09/09/2007 6:17:54 AM PDT by decimon
I received these in an email. They are said to be from some film found in a Brownie camera in a footlocker.
I paged you for not being sure this post is acceptable.
I’ve seen some of those in books. Especially the one with the two destroyers in dry dock.
I’ve seen most of these before, myself.
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That appears to have been taken with a wide-angle lens, which rules out a Brownie.
The photos are great though. I recall when they made the rounds and was amazed. ;-D
I’ve seen a couple of those, but not all. THANKS!
LOL.
These pictures are great!
Since they just recently have made their debut, I will refrain from insisting Ive seen the photos before.
So typical around here.
So, thanks again.
The pictures do not appear to be from the same camera. Since I got them in an email, through a Yahoo Group, I figured they would be making the rounds so I posted them for reactions. Didn’t have to wait long for reactions. :-)
The story behind the pictures doesn’t add up but I thought the pictures might be new. Guess not.
As I looked at them here I thought to myself, “Boy whoever took all those photos with his Brownie sure got around to a lot of places that day” and then became suspicious.
That appears to have been taken with a wide-angle lens, which rules out a Brownie.
The destroyers are the Cassin (DD-372) and Downes (DD-375) and the battleship astern is the Pennsylvania (BB-38). They were all in drydock, which flooded. The two destroyers were damaged beyond repair, the the Pennsylvania lived to fight again.
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http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/brownieCam/Brownie (original model)
OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
FABRICATOR: Brownell Manufacturing Co.
DESIGNER: Brownell, Frank A.
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
INTRODUCTION DATE: Feb. 1900
PRODUCTION DATES: Feb. 1900-Oct. 1901
PATENT DATE: Apr. 11, 1899
FILM TYPE: 117 rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 2¼ x 2¼in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $1.00
APPROXIMATE MANUFACTURED QUANTITY: 260,000
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: box
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: meniscus
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes
NOTES:
Leatherette covered card box camera. Earliest models (about 15,000)
have slide-off back; improved version introduced March 15, 1900 have
bottom hinged card back with sliding metal latch. Camera uses 'V'
sighting frame, waist level add-on finder available August 1900.
Detachable winding key. Most of this first batch was sent to
Kodak Limited.
US patent numbers: 622,955 (04/11/99), 662,762 (11/27/00), 725,034
(04/14/03)
The Feb. 1900 Trade Circular lists a 6 exposure roll of transparent
film at 15¢ paper-negative film at 10¢, 40¢ for processing (6 exp1901)
The first cameras were shipped on Feb. 8, 1900, according to the EKC
camera production manuscript.
The Brownie character box is first announced in the June 1901 EKC
Trade Circular.
OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E130.00034
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 215
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gibson, Dave & Ryon, Don. --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984.//
Coe, Brian. --Kodak Cameras: The First Hundred Years.-- Hove, East Sussex: Hove Foto Books, 1988. pp. 34.//
It’s amazing how long film will keep in an undeveloped state. A friend recently (18 months ago) developed some 8mm movie film he shot while in Viet Nam. Half of it had gone bad, but the rest looked like it was shot last week.
Color stuff is not as good as the B&W, at least a third of the Ektacrome slides I took in VN have lost all the colors except red.
I have great photos from my childhood taken in the late 30's-early 40's with the Brownie Box Camera - and photos at the same time of my mother WITH the box camera in her hands. They took great quality photos - and they'd already been around a few decades by then
#12 has a clock face superimposed in the right-hand corner. Pro job.
The Brownie camera I’m referring to was relatively small with the view finder on top and dark brown in color ... the camera shown, although evidently called a Brownie was also referred to as a box camera.
I used to work for Kodak. The company newsletter would sometimes have stories of people sending in decades old undeveloped film. Kodak took pride in developing those films and the quality of the pictures was at times amazing for film 'stored' in some dresser drawer or attic trunk.
Yes, who did that had above average skills.
It’s a great collection of photos (and hijacked to my hard drive!).
BUT...at least for the drydock photo, it appears to be the same as
one already listed with the navy.
Now, if that’s not to say that the dry dock photo (and others)
didn’t originate from film in a Brownie found sometime after the
great day’s events.
Here’s URLs for the Navy photo and main index for the Navy’s online
photo collection:
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g10000/g19943.jpg
http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/org11-2.htm
Check the link in post #7 before you LOL.
WHere’s the irrefutable evidence of Pearl Harbor being BUSH’S FAULT?
His father was a WWII Naval Aviator. Tom Cruise played a Naval Aviator. Connect the dots.
My thoughts exactly. Seen these before.
Picutre 15 appears to have a bit of color in the smoke plume plus some faded color on the right side border. Is this a B&W pix that was “colorized” and which has faded?
Those are remarkable pictures and a historical treasure.
And picture #3 has a bit of color in the clouds. I think that's just the odd effect that light can have on film.
It may appear that all colors have been lost except red, but there may be some small amount of the other colors left. You might be quite impressed with restoration technology. Many old commercial movies have been restored using knowledge of the deterioration mechanisms to restore the original detail.
There are scanners made specifically to scan photographic slides. Once scanned, the color balance can probably be adjusted for each individual slide.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sure there were several photographers on the scene and many snapped similar photos in many locations.
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