When I saw the theme for this weeks Sepia Saturday was film, I wanted to post a photo from a movie I remember wandering into one evening when I was about 4. We lived in St. John’s Congregational Church parsonage/community house in Springfield, Massachusetts where my father was pastor. Unfortunately, I don’t remember the name of the movie. I remember waking up from my nap and going down the hall to a big room where the movie was being shown. There I saw a larger then life, green genie coming horrifyingly out of a bottle. Perhaps it was “The Thief of Bagdad“, released in 1940. By 1950 it could have been available for showing in darkened rooms full of folding chairs to community groups. I did not stick around after the Genie started coming out of the bottle.
However, this movie is not sepia and it’s not from my family photo stash, so I kept looking. Finally I remembered finding an envelope of negatives (film) of me, my bear, Beatrice, and my grandfather, Dr. Albert B. Cleage Sr. They were taken in the Summer of 1948 in our backyard.
It was the giant foot that scared me!
I don’t think I stayed around to see the foot the first time ;-P
Using your negatives is a clever idea.
That is a scary movie, especially for a young child!
I can imagine that being very scary. I’m rather fond of Sabu, maybe his Jungle Book would have been a better choice.
That’s still pretty scary for a child these days! Clever stuff though.
Film in the truest sense of the word. Wish I’d thought of that.
Your negatives are great….I enjoyed your clip too! It sure brings attention to you at first glance right!
The genie made me jump for sure. Now I’m off to look out for all those negatives hidden at the back of a drawer. Showing your’s the way you have was a great idea.
I found the film theme to be a challenging one but I was satisfied with my final result. I’m glad you all enjoyed it too.
A green genie coming out of a bottle would be sure to scare a child. I can remember being scared of a puppet show.
Your negatives are excellent!
That genie would have scared me too. Love those negatives though.
My mom was a fan of Sabu. Those family film strips are precious.
A great effect putting the negative and positives together. My dad is a photographer who often made similar contact prints like this to see which photo were worth printing. I have my own scary movie too. Those first startling images stick in the memory for a lifetime.
I was going to put a third row with copies of the printed photographs but I couldn’t find copies for all of them.
I think I saw that movie [in full],
in some church basement…
Lovely pics though.
Big pram for such a tiny girl…
😉
HUGZ
Wonder why it was popular with church groups.
I have the devil of a time scanning negatives these days. My scanner is older and no longer supported, what a pain. I love your negatives. Makes me wonder what ever happened to mine.
Your 5 negatives look like a movie. You could make a “flip book” out of them.
Barbara
Who – I found another box of negatives today. I rig up a light box over the scanner bed to get enough light to get a good copy. It works if the negative is good to begin with.
Barbara – I may even have more negatives from that same day. I might try making a “flip book”.
You could make animated gif images!!
🙂
HUGZ
Someone showed me how to do that once but I do not remember how. Guess I could ask her again…
you could use Adobe, or an online free service:
http://gifninja.com/
they let you use 10 pictures at the time.
:)~
HUGZ
Ok! I am going to try it. I’ll let you know what happens. Thanks 😉
U R welcome!!