Frank Arthur wrote:
>
> "Blinky the Shark" <no.spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> news:pan.2008.03.18.05.05.13.18612@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Tonight I was going through some boxes of slides, prints and negs (oh,
>> and
>> some 8mm and Super8, as well) from my parents' home (they passed away
>> eight years ago), and among the stuff I found were three (possibly
four)
>> unshot rolls of film, still boxed. Two are in unopened boxes. I was
>> astonished to see this fresh date on on one of the unopened ones.
>>
>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/verichrome.jpg
>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/verichrome2.jpg
>> http://blinkynet.net/stuff/verichrome3.jpg
>>
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> If your parents expired in 2000 and the film expired in 1945 your
parents
> must have saved the unopened film for at least 55 years.
It just got stuck in a box that nobody opened for many years.
The box, which was 99.9% family and vacation photographs and old home
movies, has a small box of glossy b/w souvenir cards - smaller than
playing cards - of scenes from the Chicago World's Fair of 1933.
http://blinkynet.net/stuff/chicago33.jpg
(Funky shadows in my image: that's a quick'n'dirty scan, as were the three
images, above, of the box of Verichrome.)
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