{"id":3657,"date":"2015-05-16T09:35:22","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T08:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2025-10-16T14:46:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:46:40","slug":"found-film-the-happiest-place-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/?p=3657","title":{"rendered":"Found Film: The Happiest Place on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been some time since the last time I wrote a “normal” found film post – i.e., one which hadn’t yet been developed. \u00a0In fact, since October, I have been sharing a box of already-developed found film shot by the late Raymond Albert.<\/a>\u00a0 I had a bunch of film piling up, and I have developed a bunch of them, but most have come out blank. \u00a0So this hobby is getting expensive. \u00a0But I did finally get something from a roll of 127 film:\"DSC03704\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This roll likely dates from the 1960s, when 127 film had its heyday in cheap plastic cameras with star\/rocket\/flash\/fun\/magic in their names. After that, the Instamatics took over, with their 126 cartridges. \u00a0This particular roll has a clue, in the form of a car and a hairstyle. \u00a0Both say 1960s.<\/p>\n

\"Posing<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s a 1961 Cadillac in the background.<\/p>\n

But then the other photos were a bit confusing. \u00a0There’s this one here, with something in the water:<\/p>\n

\"Disney<\/a><\/p>\n

And then there’s this odd elephant:<\/p>\n

\"Elephant\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And, as far as I can make out, a pile of human skulls:<\/p>\n

\"Faint<\/a><\/p>\n

And finally the mystery is solved, when this photo makes its way from the scanner to my screen:<\/p>\n

\"Disneyland!\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s the Happiest Place on Earth!<\/p>\n

Once I figured that out, I was able to sort out that this was one of the rides:<\/p>\n

\"Scary<\/a><\/p>\n

And even this very difficult-to-make-out photo made sense once I figured out which way it was oriented correctly:<\/p>\n

\"Disney<\/a><\/p>\n

That’s right – it’s the riverboat ride!<\/p>\n

See more “found film” at this link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It has been some time since the last time I wrote a “normal” found film post – i.e., one which hadn’t yet been developed. \u00a0In fact, since October, I have been sharing a box of already-developed found film shot by the late Raymond Albert.\u00a0 I had a bunch of film piling up, and I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[856],"tags":[1663,1662,885,1664,1661,842],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-film-vintage-cameras","tag-1663","tag-1662","tag-ansco","tag-cadillac","tag-disneyland","tag-found-film"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6897,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions\/6897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tazmpictures.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}