Do you have any images that might be of interest to visitors to Salisbury museum in a hundred years time? Here is one image from the daughter of a founder member of the Fordingbridge camera club, from the 1960s.
The lady’s father was employed by Reed and Mallik (a Salisbury company) and was an unofficial photographer for them. The image here shows the Fordingbridge camera club, which is still going, making a “movie”.
The image is full of items and methods that have passed into history. For example, the gentleman crouching down is using a cine camera. This camera uses an 8mm wide film giving several minutes of filming. The cine camera has to be accurately focused, especially for indoors filming with reduced lighting. Hence the tape measure in inches stretched across from the camera to the far left gentleman, and the light source of two powerful tungsten lights on a tripod. The cine camera is also on a tripod to keep it steady – no hand shaking removal software. Like silent movies; simultaneous recording of sound came later.
There is a predominance of men and the wearing of ties and the start of the polo neck fashion.
In addition, on the desk, beside the glass tomato ketchup sauce bottle, there is a recyclable glass pint milk bottle.
What else can you spot and identify in the image that people in 100 years time might puzzle over?
Thank you Alan, for another enjoyably thought-provoking photo commentary. And wouldn’t it make a super family game at Christmas – pouring over family photos, not to spot the relatives, but to spot what has changed!