@jason9022 How dare you judge this man...you don't know his motives... He died early so who really knows what plans he had...a book...a movie...about his family..?
Congratulations on reaching the amount, I am glad to see that people still care and tries to save history as much as possible. Our petty governments clearly does not care anymore, the profit motive went through their heads and archiving history is not important for them a shame. But thanks to people like you we can still save some of it.
hellothisiskyle There is nothing wrong with profiting using labor. He's putting his labor and creating public interest and meaning in this type of work. That is the problem with "art": everything is so self-righteous.
It's really feels like the end of a steampunk era to me. Those old ways are dying out so fast. But the things we could see and learn would be amazing, no doubt. Seen 4/15/2020
This the second video I have seen and now I am subscribing. Have you completed your project. I will view the link you placed in the description. I enjoy your preservation work & preserve the lives of others' history & their place in life. I would always see my old family pictures and no names were written down, and seems sad to not know.
The only thing I can think of is that he wanted someone in the future to develop it, it would be pointless to wrap the film up nicely and date and label it if he was going to develop it right away. And even if that's not what he was doing, I'm glad he did. They would've been worthless to anyone except his family if he just processed them like normal. This adds something way more interesting to them.
Would be cool if there was a publishing house that caught your vision and was willing to publish these images in book form. i think they would be very insightful images of our past.
This is an amazing amount of film. Which developer process are you using? I have several old rolls that I hope to rescue but am holding off until I determine which chemicals are best to use on expired film from the 50s, 60s. Primarily black and white but some color. I've mailed a few rolls off and they didn't come out...unfortunately. I understand that how they were stored will impact the chances of survival. Thanks and keep up the outstanding work with these rescues.
Unbelievable and mind blowing at the same time. 1200 rolls of film! Right now I'm developing two very old films in my dark room. One is Kodak Verichrome Pan 116 i bought on eBay as exposed but underdeveloped and second one is old Orwo NP20 from Zeiss Ikonta 520/2 i bought on internet. Rodinal 1+100 semi stand, it'll be finished in few minutes.
@0:22 Looks like kilos of contraband stacked neatly at the DEA... Seriously...nice lot...I hope you're able to successfully develop the majority if not all of them... They should tell a great story...try to locate any family members who may still be around...
In reading the comments, I see that you know who the family is and have been in contact with them. But does any of them know WHY Paul never had these rolls developed? Also, the fact that the family hired someone to sell them on eBay seems pretty nauseating -- at least on the surface. Anyway, the "Rescued Film Project is amazing. You should be given a lot of credit for what you're doing. Much luck in the future.
What I do t understand is, how could someone purchase and shoot all those rolls of film, and not get them developed? I’d be interested in your theories. 📸
Yes, next moneymaker for someone. You do understand its scam? You cant edit someone's work and claim its their work. The pictures you choose, and how you crop & print them is one of the most important part of the process. And you can create totally different bodies of work, from the same material. Its a scam made often in art industry. All you need to do is promote a dead artists and make all the money out of their work.
@@Nobody-Nowhere This is just not true... absolutely completely wrong... Maybe in our digitalized society where everyone can " edit" their pictures by software you could make that point. We are talking film here. Nit editing yourselve is a common thing in photography because other people see your photography differently. They don't have any emotional attachment to your pictures and therefore can even edit your stuff better than you.
Reminds me of a bit of Garry Winogrand and his huge stock of unprocessed film, I believe some 2300 rolls. Garry, unlike 'Paul', was known and an accomplished photographer, so I suspect that he had made arrangements, I believe with the CCP (Center For Creative Photography) to take control of his work. As for 'Paul's' work, who knows what the quality is and as some have intimated, this could be a scam, though I am not getting that feeling, I believe that it is legit. This video was uploaded some 4 years ago, is there any sort of an update?
In a documentary they said that he just made the contact sheets to see if he " got it". If so he was satisfied and didn't edit for whatever reasons. Probably he knew, like you said, that someone will take care
Unfortunately I know the photographer’s feelings about the rolls remaining undeveloped. I myself, shooting and developing film for 35 years (has it really been that long?☺️) have always found the most pleasure in actuality taking the images. Developing, besides being drudgery, can never be thought to be done properly unless you do it (B&w that is) yourself, plus the added costs of commercial developing. However I usually at least get around I processing the film, though it sometimes takes a few years, but there’s zero time to print medium format film. Yes I’m working on scanning it, though that too is a pain. I currently only have a backlog of maybe 20-30 rolls. While I feel bad for this photographer, never getting to see his images, I do recall actually shooting most of what I shot when I see them again. Just don’t condemn the guy “too much” for not processing them. At least he preserved them well.☺️
Film itself isn't cheap. But I can't understand not having some of the film developed along the way. To shoot that many rolls of film and just pack them away is just mind boggling. Why Is the question we will never know?
rb67mustang yeah he obviously planned it since he packed it all in foil to block background radiation fog which would accumulate over time. I’ve developed a few highly pushed processed rolls, which I’d misplaced and forgotten about that were over 20 years old, and I didn’t notice any fog, so the guy musta been planning for his film to survive the apocalypse 😎 I had a great time finding and developing my list rolls btw, having “no idea what could be on them”. Like finding buried treasure ☺️, which of course is what this groups project is all about!🙃
@@rb67mustang most likely money, or lack of, processing has never been cheap. I got into photography as a kid in the mid 60's. Using an old box camera then a twin lens reflex, eventually a decent SLR that I used until I could afford a good digital not more than five years as. As a kid I had to choose between more film or processing, which some my dad taught me how to do. With no dedicated dark room this didn't happen to often. I've got about a dozen rolls of old 120 and 420 that I shot that is now at least 50 years old, I'd sure like to see what's on them, they would be of no interest really to any one but me. And now of cource the cost is much higher and who do you find that you can trust to do it. And then there's the money issue, there's always something that seems more necessary.
@@stickassholio3163 you never know who your talking to and where they live with you tube, they could be across the street or the other side of the planet. Presently I'm on the west coast of Canada and about a 5 hour drive north of the U S border.
I watching this video on 2021. Have you saved this rolls? I had tears from my eyes when I watched it. This is so unfair to make so many photos and never see them. And even worst never be seen by anybody. I really hope that more people will start to do what you do and give the opportunity to the found photos to be seen.
I'd like to give something, but I really try to avoid having anything auto-withdraw by the month from my bank account. What a great deed you are doing bringing this man's works to life. It's so sad he couldn't afford to develop his own masterworks. It reminds me of Vivian Maier.
would love to see those pictures. I was born in East Chicago on the Harbor side. We lived across the street from the the library. We moved to Gary, then Merillville. They had a zoo in the park across from the Hospital. I worked at Youngstown sheet and Tube. Also there was Marx town which was across the street. Did you know the photographers last name?
I'm a Floridian "of a certain age". I see people's belongings thrown out when they pass away or they're put in nursing homes, especially if they don't have next of kin nearby. Including photos, albums, & digital too. I hate to see this. Does anyone have alternatives or ideas? Maybe I'm making too much of losing the history of average people. The people I see losing their pics are in their 80's & 90's. Born in the 1920's & 30's. Info & ideas please. Thanks
We are nothing but specks of dust. I like your thinking and have same sentiments but nobody will be interested in my memories after I pass away. I don't know if it's sad but it's just how it is. Makes you appreciate the moment more, I think.
I'm not saying I have rolls off film WWII, but if I obtained unexposed films of what life was like for soldiers in Sweden during WWII... would that be if interest? I guess there would be at least Some undeveloped rolls from occupied Norway and Denmark and from the winterwar in Finland... No it's not Omaha beach pictures but still interesting in the wider picture of the war. Brittons must be sutting on a treasure trove of old undeveloped film.
Hey I'm Ryan and I was born in East Chicago In, as were my parents and their parents. As soon as I seen this video I immediately knew there is a picture of atleast one of my family members in that collection. I have a burning desire to see these pictures is there any way to see them?
Hi Ryan! Look below the video window in the discription. He has a link to a Patreon site where you can join at $10, or $15, or $20 I think it is a month. I wanted to donate once, but no option to do that.
Blue Moon Camera is processing the film for us at a discounted rate. In order to not completely bog down their daily operations, they are just going to process a few batches daily. Then the scanning will be done by other volunteers to keep costs down. Since we haven't started the process yet, we doing know how many images we will have weekly.
Natural environmental radiation is the primary cause of the "fading" with unprocessed film creating a foggy look to most films. The radiation creates excessive density in non-exposed (light) areas of negative film well above the normal filmbase+fog levels. Once film is processed, it's is no longer an accumulative factor. You need to tailor your processing for the film to minimize the fog levels with a developer that incorporates a restrainer (Benzotriazole is the usual anti-fog additive). It may be a Search Engine task - Donald Quall website, Photographer's Formulary, etc. Edwal was a past favorite, HC-110 in certain dilutions. May need to do clips tests on individual rolls if description notes indicate an important subject. It has been years for me since any wet-lab work. Best wishes.
Dude I love the project, but if the films have survived more than 60 years, I don't think that they are going to get bad anytime soon. At least not worse than they are now. Are you planning to make public some videos afterwards? That would be cool
Morning Sebastian! Once all the film is processed the plan is to make the images publicly available and then find a way to tell the story of the photographer. thanks for the support!
do you have a facebook page or something for film lovers to follow the details and all it would be awesome im thrilled by this project. i would love to be a part of it but 1.i live in turkey 2.i dont know how to develop a film
Yes yes--we all enjoy hearing about how these guys are into film and their fascination with photography. But where do we see the pictures from 1200 rolls of old film? Have any historians looked over these pictures? Or commented on their significance? Or how they might provide a window into American middle-class life in the 1950's? Who shot them? And why? Why were they never processed? This video was posted four years ago. Lots of teasers. But nothing substantial yet.
This video is beyond me and my imagination. Why can't that the original photographer immediately develop all his exposed films after taken his pictures to the end of each rolls ?!??
where did these photos come from? surely the kids in the photgraphs are still alive? Have you tried to trace them down to share their family photos with them?
Goat seems to know his STUFF. You can always develop the negatives only and wait on processing the prints/slides. Diff makes of film might degrade faster/slower. A few years now wont make any difference after 60 have passed. This might be an opportunity for the film maker to do a commercial saying its film still lasts fairly well. Contact Kodak and or manufacturer. I ALWAYS WAS TOLD in photo class- film is best stored in a water tight container in a refrigerator. It is cheap to develop the film negs your self in a light tight plastic container. You only need a darkroom to load the film on the film dev holder and put in a dev container. MORE---......
When I was young I liked to take photos, but developing was very expensive. I wasn't a serious photographer, like this man was, so I gradually developed my film. My mother was the same way. She took many rolls and for years kept them in the freezer in our refridgerator. I took care of my mother. After she transcended I kept the rolls in ziploc bags and gave them to my sister who had more money than I do. She later said it was ridiculous I saved the rolls as they would all be blank and she tossed probably around 75 rolls. I was very saddened, but things happen the way one wished not at times. I think he wrapped them best he could to keep out moisture. I think the aluminum foil was maybe because if they were ever somehow exposed to radiation or x-rays, then they would be destroyed.
Its Not really about rescuing film, You have copyrighted every single Image you have been able to process. That shows Its really about a photographer trying to make some money using history.
Feel free to enter the market place and do the same, I would honestly encourage you to do so. Not only do I NOT have a problem with this, I applaud him for doing this. The alternative is to allow the film to disappear to history. This arrangement I see as a win win arrangement.
i have stored in an old steamer trunk in my house more than 100yrs of family pictures and movie film, and this is where this generation will fail, with a dependency on digital medium created by smart phone and digital camera co. , they will the first generation since the 19th century not to have a photographic film record of family life, and it will to bad. and future generations will be the less for it.
this packages look like package from Mexican cartel ar you sour that packages of old filmes bundles ???? of cores i am joking escuse my french god help you >>>> LOVE- ( :)
this needs a documentary
This needs an update
This is March 2020. I just found your videos. I hope that you were able to complete these rolls of film??? Amazing!!!
still working through them! you can find what we've rescued so far here, www.rescuedfilm.com/rescuedpaul
@@RescuedFilmProject Is 01/2021 this comment should be pinned so everyone can find these pictures they are super interesting! great work!!! \o/
It’s just been dick pics so far. I don’t know how many more I’m willing to process.
@@RescuedFilmProject I'm guessing the Website was hacked
The work you are doing is incredible. You deserve a larger following for all of this dedication, possibly even a documentary!
..today its 2023, ...such a lucky guy......i wish to find such treasure....greets BM
How does someone shoot so much and not develop it?
He packaged the film in layers of news paper and tinfoil, so it sounds like he was a tad eccentric.
because he love shooting films
a time capsule
@jason9022 How dare you judge this man...you don't know his motives...
He died early so who really knows what plans he had...a book...a movie...about his family..?
Matthew Thomas
I have rolls. Maybe twenty, maybe more, they haunt me.
Congratulations on reaching the amount, I am glad to see that people still care and tries to save history as much as possible.
Our petty governments clearly does not care anymore, the profit motive went through their heads and archiving history is not important for them a shame.
But thanks to people like you we can still save some of it.
SMGJohn if you think he's not profiting off of this you're kidding yourself.
+hellothisiskyle
I think you should first take a class in basic English, and then read my comment a third time
hellothisiskyle
There is nothing wrong with profiting using labor. He's putting his labor and creating public interest and meaning in this type of work. That is the problem with "art": everything is so self-righteous.
Amazing job you're doing very important that we keep all these images as a reminder of a fast changing world. Keep Up The Good Work.
This is Amazing. To find such treasures. You do amazing work.
, I hope you are able to rescue this film. Can't wait to see the archive when the project is complete.
Thank you! You can see what we've rescued so far here, www.rescuedfilm.com/rescuedpaul
Just...wow! this deserves a documentary, it realy does.
There isnt much time left before those rolls of film degrades into nothingness.
It's really feels like the end of a steampunk era to me. Those old ways are dying out so fast. But the things we could see and learn would be amazing, no doubt. Seen 4/15/2020
This the second video I have seen and now I am subscribing. Have you completed your project. I will view the link you placed in the description. I enjoy your preservation work & preserve the lives of others' history & their place in life. I would always see my old family pictures and no names were written down, and seems sad to not know.
0:19 that doesn’t look like film to me 👀
Its some white powder😃
May of 2022....how is this going? Did you finish?
Who shoots so much film, goes through the trouble of labelling and packing it all up and then never looks at the pictures???
Agree. It would have taken less time and cash to get them developed. Then to do it 1200 times? That is totally weird.
The only thing I can think of is that he wanted someone in the future to develop it, it would be pointless to wrap the film up nicely and date and label it if he was going to develop it right away. And even if that's not what he was doing, I'm glad he did. They would've been worthless to anyone except his family if he just processed them like normal. This adds something way more interesting to them.
Incredible how everything was carefully labeled and stored.
What a cool undertaking; best of luck to you.
Would be cool if there was a publishing house that caught your vision and was willing to publish these images in book form. i think they would be very insightful images of our past.
This is an amazing amount of film. Which developer process are you using? I have several old rolls that I hope to rescue but am holding off until I determine which chemicals are best to use on expired film from the 50s, 60s. Primarily black and white but some color. I've mailed a few rolls off and they didn't come out...unfortunately. I understand that how they were stored will impact the chances of survival. Thanks and keep up the outstanding work with these rescues.
Unbelievable and mind blowing at the same time. 1200 rolls of film! Right now I'm developing two very old films in my dark room. One is Kodak Verichrome Pan 116 i bought on eBay as exposed but underdeveloped and second one is old Orwo NP20 from Zeiss Ikonta 520/2 i bought on internet. Rodinal 1+100 semi stand, it'll be finished in few minutes.
Absolutely fantastic
Thank you for your service to saving history. Its ccx 2021 now how is the project going ? Is it finished
@0:22 Looks like kilos of contraband stacked neatly at the DEA...
Seriously...nice lot...I hope you're able to successfully develop the majority if not all of them...
They should tell a great story...try to locate any family members who may still be around...
In reading the comments, I see that you know who the family is and have been in contact with them. But does any of them know WHY Paul never had these rolls developed? Also, the fact that the family hired someone to sell them on eBay seems pretty nauseating -- at least on the surface. Anyway, the "Rescued Film Project is amazing. You should be given a lot of credit for what you're doing. Much luck in the future.
What I do t understand is, how could someone purchase and shoot all those rolls of film, and not get them developed? I’d be interested in your theories. 📸
DUDE! this could be the next Vivian Maier!!!
Yes, next moneymaker for someone. You do understand its scam? You cant edit someone's work and claim its their work. The pictures you choose, and how you crop & print them is one of the most important part of the process. And you can create totally different bodies of work, from the same material.
Its a scam made often in art industry. All you need to do is promote a dead artists and make all the money out of their work.
@@Nobody-Nowhere if Paul had developed and printed his work he could have been a Fred Lyons instead of a Vivian Maier.
@@Nobody-Nowhere This is just not true... absolutely completely wrong...
Maybe in our digitalized society where everyone can " edit" their pictures by software you could make that point.
We are talking film here.
Nit editing yourselve is a common thing in photography because other people see your photography differently. They don't have any emotional attachment to your pictures and therefore can even edit your stuff better than you.
Wow..just found this...it is so cool!
Interesting! An update or documentary would be nice.
still working through the film. What we've rescued so far can be found here, www.rescuedfilm.com/rescuedpaul
Reminds me of a bit of Garry Winogrand and his huge stock of unprocessed film, I believe some 2300 rolls. Garry, unlike 'Paul', was known and an accomplished photographer, so I suspect that he had made arrangements, I believe with the CCP (Center For Creative Photography) to take control of his work. As for 'Paul's' work, who knows what the quality is and as some have intimated, this could be a scam, though I am not getting that feeling, I believe that it is legit. This video was uploaded some 4 years ago, is there any sort of an update?
In a documentary they said that he just made the contact sheets to see if he " got it". If so he was satisfied and didn't edit for whatever reasons. Probably he knew, like you said, that someone will take care
Unfortunately I know the photographer’s feelings about the rolls remaining undeveloped. I myself, shooting and developing film for 35 years (has it really been that long?☺️) have always found the most pleasure in actuality taking the images. Developing, besides being drudgery, can never be thought to be done properly unless you do it (B&w that is) yourself, plus the added costs of commercial developing. However I usually at least get around I processing the film, though it sometimes takes a few years, but there’s zero time to print medium format film. Yes I’m working on scanning it, though that too is a pain. I currently only have a backlog of maybe 20-30 rolls. While I feel bad for this photographer, never getting to see his images, I do recall actually shooting most of what I shot when I see them again. Just don’t condemn the guy “too much” for not processing them. At least he preserved them well.☺️
Film itself isn't cheap. But I can't understand not having some of the film developed along the way. To shoot that many rolls of film and just pack them away is just mind boggling. Why Is the question we will never know?
rb67mustang yeah he obviously planned it since he packed it all in foil to block background radiation fog which would accumulate over time.
I’ve developed a few highly pushed processed rolls, which I’d misplaced and forgotten about that were over 20 years old, and I didn’t notice any fog, so the guy musta been planning for his film to survive the apocalypse 😎 I had a great time finding and developing my list rolls btw, having “no idea what could be on them”. Like finding buried treasure ☺️, which of course is what this groups project is all about!🙃
@@rb67mustang most likely money, or lack of, processing has never been cheap. I got into photography as a kid in the mid 60's. Using an old box camera then a twin lens reflex, eventually a decent SLR that I used until I could afford a good digital not more than five years as. As a kid I had to choose between more film or processing, which some my dad taught me how to do. With no dedicated dark room this didn't happen to often.
I've got about a dozen rolls of old 120 and 420 that I shot that is now at least 50 years old, I'd sure like to see what's on them, they would be of no interest really to any one but me. And now of cource the cost is much higher and who do you find that you can trust to do it. And then there's the money issue, there's always something that seems more necessary.
bipedalbob 50 years old, that’s cool! If we were nearby I’d process them for you just to see what fun could be had exploring what might be on them!😎
@@stickassholio3163 you never know who your talking to and where they live with you tube, they could be across the street or the other side of the planet.
Presently I'm on the west coast of Canada and about a 5 hour drive north of the U S border.
I watching this video on 2021. Have you saved this rolls? I had tears from my eyes when I watched it. This is so unfair to make so many photos and never see them. And even worst never be seen by anybody. I really hope that more people will start to do what you do and give the opportunity to the found photos to be seen.
How has this project goone, is there anywhere we can view the images from Paul's film yet? Thank you for the work you do.
it's going well! you can view what we've rescued so far on our website here: www.rescuedfilm.com/rescuedpaul
That, ah. That's a lot of photos of children.
@@SirYenner It's film from a suburban father, what else would he take pictures of but his children & area?
This is something my grandfather would have done if he was into photography also kind of looks like his handwriting. Really cool story
I'd like to give something, but I really try to avoid having anything auto-withdraw by the month from my bank account. What a great deed you are doing bringing this man's works to life. It's so sad he couldn't afford to develop his own masterworks. It reminds me of Vivian Maier.
It is now four years later. Any update?
would love to see those pictures. I was born in East Chicago on the Harbor side. We lived across the street from the the library. We moved to Gary, then Merillville. They had a zoo in the park across from the Hospital. I worked at Youngstown sheet and Tube. Also there was Marx town which was across the street. Did you know the photographers last name?
Most pictures are mainly children as subject!
Is your website funcational, the header is overlapping but I love the batches, timeless
Wow, incredible
Can you tell me where to get old 8mm developed?
I'm a Floridian "of a certain age". I see people's belongings thrown out when they pass away or they're put in nursing homes, especially if they don't have next of kin nearby. Including photos, albums, & digital too. I hate to see this. Does anyone have alternatives or ideas? Maybe I'm making too much of losing the history of average people. The people I see losing their pics are in their 80's & 90's. Born in the 1920's & 30's. Info & ideas please. Thanks
Hi m 66. Memories. So many more than grains of sand on a beach.
We are nothing but specks of dust. I like your thinking and have same sentiments but nobody will be interested in my memories after I pass away. I don't know if it's sad but it's just how it is. Makes you appreciate the moment more, I think.
I'm not saying I have rolls off film WWII, but if I obtained unexposed films of what life was like for soldiers in Sweden during WWII... would that be if interest? I guess there would be at least Some undeveloped rolls from occupied Norway and Denmark and from the winterwar in Finland... No it's not Omaha beach pictures but still interesting in the wider picture of the war.
Brittons must be sutting on a treasure trove of old undeveloped film.
Good morning Tom. We process film that needs rescuing no matter what the context. You can find details here, www.rescuedfilm.com/contribute-film
As I opened the 1,199th roll I remembered I forgot to turn the lights out 💡💡⬛️◾️▪️................
Wish you saved all the wrapping and put it all in one big bundle on display.
AMAZING!!!
Si just found this project, I would like to know the progress of those 1,200 rolls
Me too.
Hey I'm Ryan and I was born in East Chicago In, as were my parents and their parents. As soon as I seen this video I immediately knew there is a picture of atleast one of my family members in that collection. I have a burning desire to see these pictures is there any way to see them?
Hi Ryan! Look below the video window in the discription. He has a link to a Patreon site where you can join at $10, or $15, or $20 I think it is a month. I wanted to donate once, but no option to do that.
Sorry if I missed it in the video but how what will be the process rate be, say in frames per week?
Blue Moon Camera is processing the film for us at a discounted rate. In order to not completely bog down their daily operations, they are just going to process a few batches daily. Then the scanning will be done by other volunteers to keep costs down. Since we haven't started the process yet, we doing know how many images we will have weekly.
Where can we see the rest of the already processed roll/s in full resolution?
we just posted them on our Facebook page.
I am 10 min from east Chicago. Where did you happen to find the film? Garage sale?
We purchased it online from someone who was hired by the family to sell it.
Thanks for the reply.
@@RescuedFilmProject boggles my mind that the family had no interest.
Status of this fascinating effort?
still working through the film. What we've rescued so far can be found here, www.rescuedfilm.com/rescuedpaul
omeletto brought me here. keep up the amazing work!
Natural environmental radiation is the primary cause of the "fading" with unprocessed film creating a foggy look to most films. The radiation creates excessive density in non-exposed (light) areas of negative film well above the normal filmbase+fog levels. Once film is processed, it's is no longer an accumulative factor. You need to tailor your processing for the film to minimize the fog levels with a developer that incorporates a restrainer (Benzotriazole is the usual anti-fog additive). It may be a Search Engine task - Donald Quall website, Photographer's Formulary, etc. Edwal was a past favorite, HC-110 in certain dilutions. May need to do clips tests on individual rolls if description notes indicate an important subject. It has been years for me since any wet-lab work. Best wishes.
01:48 3917 Catalpa St
that's in East Chicago
Dude I love the project, but if the films have survived more than 60 years, I don't think that they are going to get bad anytime soon. At least not worse than they are now. Are you planning to make public some videos afterwards? That would be cool
Morning Sebastian! Once all the film is processed the plan is to make the images publicly available and then find a way to tell the story of the photographer. thanks for the support!
do you have a facebook page or something for film lovers to follow the details and all it would be awesome im thrilled by this project. i would love to be a part of it but 1.i live in turkey 2.i dont know how to develop a film
facebook.com/rescuedfilmproject/?fref=ts
here you go Sezen! facebook.com/rescuedfilmproject We will also be updating the blog on the indiegogo page as well.
Sorry I can't help but wish you the best of luck!
well worth a show on the discovery channel.
Is there an update to this ?
still working through the film. What we've rescued so far can be found here, www.rescuedfilm.com/rescuedpaul
hello will you please more videos? thank you
Hi, ive come to this in 2020, did you manage to process them all
We're still working through it! You can see what we've rescued so far here, www.rescuedfilm.com/rescuedpaul
First song used in intro?
April 2020. Still processing or you saved them all now?
what a valuable business!
So it's the year of Corona 2020 where can I find the images?
www.rescuedfilm.com/rescuedpaul
It’s almost March 2021, what’s the status?
what do you plan to do with the images once they're processed?
First step is to find the best way to showcase the images. Then we would love to produce a film to tell the story of the photographer.
Rescued Film Project Hi any film of Seychelles please?
Yes yes--we all enjoy hearing about how these guys are into film and their fascination with photography. But where do we see the pictures from 1200 rolls of old film? Have any historians looked over these pictures? Or commented on their significance? Or how they might provide a window into American middle-class life in the 1950's? Who shot them? And why? Why were they never processed? This video was posted four years ago. Lots of teasers. But nothing substantial yet.
Where in Indiana was this? becuase i think i recognize someone in the picture.
3917 Catalpa St. East Chicago, Indiana
Before I went begging for money I'd most likely have processed more than 12 exposures, but that could just be me.
The date on the video is 2016. Is the project completed?
still going! you can see what we've rescued so far here www.rescuedfilm.com/rescuedpaul
Very cool
This video is beyond me and my imagination. Why can't that the original photographer immediately develop all his exposed films after taken his pictures to the end of each rolls ?!??
Incredible how much money you will need to develop for all this ..... You should ask government funding you or local state
Wow amazing
Would the life of the film be extended if stored in a vacuum or nitrogen?
We aren't sure. We feel the best course of action is to process it as soon as possible.
where did these photos come from? surely the kids in the photgraphs are still alive? Have you tried to trace them down to share their family photos with them?
East Chicago Indiana. We are in contact with the family!
Goat seems to know his STUFF. You can always develop the negatives only and wait on processing the prints/slides. Diff makes of film might degrade faster/slower. A few years now wont make any difference after 60 have passed. This might be an opportunity for the film maker to do a commercial saying its film still lasts fairly well. Contact Kodak and or manufacturer. I ALWAYS WAS TOLD in photo class- film is best stored in a water tight container in a refrigerator. It is cheap to develop the film negs your self in a light tight plastic container. You only need a darkroom to load the film on the film dev holder and put in a dev container. MORE---......
and 600 rolls in, the camera broke and the rest are blank. :(
I thought this was going to be about vivian maier (spelled wrong) but its not and im excited.
Reminds me of Vivian Meier.
This is crazy! Photograph a lot of film, but then not develop it ? What's the point?
Legend.
Would havebeen easier to develope the film than wrap them up ...that is a mystery in itself
When I was young I liked to take photos, but developing was very expensive. I wasn't a serious photographer, like this man was, so I gradually developed my film. My mother was the same way. She took many rolls and for years kept them in the freezer in our refridgerator. I took care of my mother. After she transcended I kept the rolls in ziploc bags and gave them to my sister who had more money than I do. She later said it was ridiculous I saved the rolls as they would all be blank and she tossed probably around 75 rolls. I was very saddened, but things happen the way one wished not at times. I think he wrapped them best he could to keep out moisture. I think the aluminum foil was maybe because if they were ever somehow exposed to radiation or x-rays, then they would be destroyed.
Follow-up! Follow-up!
Paul seems to have been a bit OCD. Why did he not develop his film?
Paul must have smoked a LOT of cigars
1200 rolls, 1 photographer, and about 10 keepers. 😂
he gonna be a next Vivian Maier```!!!
I HOPE YOU ARE DOING A GREAT STORY FOR A BOOK
I would have kept all the wrapping and boxes.
Hey how are you",still around????????????
Its Not really about rescuing film, You have copyrighted every single Image you have been able to process. That shows Its really about a photographer trying to make some money using history.
Awful lot of work to process. Maybe you can do it for free Compilation Extraordinaire?
Compilation Extraordinaire
And by the way, Compilation Extraordinaire, you are an ass.
Feel free to enter the market place and do the same, I would honestly encourage you to do so.
Not only do I NOT have a problem with this, I applaud him for doing this. The alternative is to allow the film to disappear to history. This arrangement I see as a win win arrangement.
Copyright is to protect the images. Otherwise they'd fall into public domain and could be used for any sordid purpose. This prevents that.
Why did you even open them if your not ready to develope someone did all that for a reason
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This must have been a weird guy
Wish i lived in the usa i would love to help!
What eve happend to this channel?
i have stored in an old steamer trunk in my house more than 100yrs of family pictures and movie film, and this is where this generation will fail, with a dependency on digital medium created by smart phone and digital camera co. , they will the first generation since the 19th century not to have a photographic film record of family life, and it will to bad. and future generations will be the less for it.
Thought it was a drug bust
this packages look like package from Mexican cartel ar you sour that packages of old filmes bundles ????
of cores i am joking escuse my french god help you >>>> LOVE- ( :)
memories that looks like cocaine bags?
thats awesome!