I Found a Mystery Film in a 60-Year-Old Camera

I bought an old Lubitel on a Flea market and i discovered some undeveloped film inside.
let's investigate and try to see what is on this very old film.

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[Jerbod]

I bought a camera online, found a film inside. Developed it, found pictures of people smoking, in their bamboo chairs, with vintage cars in the background, and a vintage TV. Emailed the seller, her mom was in those pictures, she barely had any pictures of her, so she was really happy with those as her mom died not long after. It was from 1964 I believe.

[richsackett]

The level of resolution you were able to discern from a 35 year-old roll of 120 Kodacolor II truly boggled my mind. It looked like magic. That software is really something else.

[johnps]

No picture of the Eiffel Tower, must had lived in Paris.

[CyrilViXP]

Imagine, how awkward it could be, if you’re taking some extreme porn photos and forgetting about it, and after 35 years some random guy is bringing these photos back to you

[pablopicaro]

Kodak film has production run codes along the edges, those can be used to find when film produced.

[Matt_The_Hugenot]

The shot of them eating outside has come out wonderfully, I love the colours the film has acquired over the years.

[marccolten]

It's amazing what can be recovered. My late mother-in-law had a 16 mm film taken by a family member 50 years earlier. It was too brittle to run through a projector and you could barely see an image if you held it up to the light. But a lab transferred it frame by frame to video tape and we were able to watch it (in black and white) as if it was just taken. I could even recognize her as a teen. Living history.

[tonyzs]

Ingenious! I would really like to see the family’s reaction when you return the film.

[davidschmidt]

"They have all the tools to develop film.." technician opens film with screwdriver...

[moomoo]

I lost a roll of 35mm B&W film at the OuterBanks in NC in 1980. The pics were all taken on a moonlit night, looking over the shore with surf casters and waves. I always hoped someone found it and developed the photos cuz I think they were really pretty. hope you find these kids, they will be thrilled!

[TheSFMCreators]

*We need to get these negatives back to the original family, and if they're up for it, interview them about their family and the story behind these photos!!*

[shinyprimer]

I love how you investigated and found the location of that subway train. Almost like a treasure hunt. Nice video!

[bcgrittner]

Magnifique, mon ami. I recognized the film as 120 immediately. Kodak had 620 film years ago, but it only worked in Kodak cameras. It looked like 120, but the reels were different. Everything is digital today. I’ll keep my Canon AE-1 Program. There is one place near me that can process film.

[RSpudieD]

I can't believe you found out so much information about these. Good detective work!

[theboredprogrammer]

Even though it's just a laundry detergent ad, it still sounds fancy when it's in French

[SsoUuLl]

3:07 First clue: they're having lunch, therefore most probably photos weren't taken in the USSR

[LeeBlaske]

Is it possible that Gama used a similar box for a number of years? I know the Tide detergent box looked the same for a long time. It just looks to me like the photos you have are from before 1986.

My wife's father worked for the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, and they lived in Pakistan and South Africa for a number of year. The pictures you have really remind me of the shots her father took of them, growing up. One thing to keep in mind is that a lot of U.S. business people working in foreign offices around the world did a fair amount of travel back and forth to the U.S., and they would often visit other parts of the world on vacations (it was often a perquisite for that type of employment). So, it's possible that the family whose pictures you have wasn't living in France, and was just there on a visit.

[inthestudy]

How nostalgic. I did this for a customer (roll of Kodacolor II, 120, 6x6, found in an old camera) for a customer of my lab on Wednesday. Slightly fogged (but very well exposed) aerial photography. Good fun find.


For the record, the film you developed was only released in 1974 - so it couldn't have been from the 60's!

[djolley]

Brings back memories. Great detective work by the way. Reminds me when I worked in a photo lab and a thirty-ish year old woman came in with some older film. Probably had been stored in a glove box because the color was way off. Spent a lot of time adjusting the color as good as we could get it, then she didn't even want them!

[tomdchi]

The baguettes on the table aren't the proof that it's a French family, it was la salade de carottes râpées!