Jersey Band From 1980
Turns Up In Lost Photos
By Gary Wien
Nowadays, your favorite camera
is probably in your pocket, but
decades ago you used to have
a 35mm with film that needed
to be developed. Sometimes
people forgot to develop a roll,
which may have found itself lost
over time or stuck in a camera
and eventually tossed aside.
Azriel Knight from Calgary
seeks out undeveloped film and
tries to learn the story behind
the pictures at his website
MysteriousDevelopments.com.
Knight finds undeveloped film
at places like garage sales, estate
sales, and local thrift stores. Sometimes he develops photos that
intrigue him enough to try discovering who the people on film
were. Earlier this year, he learned
who the musicians in a set of old
New Jersey Stage
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pictures taken around 1980 were
thanks to the power of social media. And, of course, they were
from Jersey.
After developing an old roll of
film, Knight first tries to piece together as many clues as he can
from the photo. “Dating the film
September 2014
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