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Undeveloped Film Rolls Spark mysteries
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The Man Who Resurrects Thousands of Rolls of Undeveloped Film
"The Rescued Film Project is like one of those earnest, artistic ambitions you make at 2 AM in the kitchen at a house party only to wake up the next morning with no recollection of it. But 28-year-old Levi Bettwieser from Boise, Idaho, actually stuck with the idea and has spent the last few years hunting for forgotten, undeveloped rolls of film in Treasure Valley thrift stores and garage sales, developing them, and, eventually, posting them online."
"Bettwieser—a photographer himself—has developed 5,500 images (only a fraction of which have made it to the online archive so far), with a backlog of 1,000 undeveloped film rolls in the vault. The Rescued Film Project started to get real traction after Bettwieser shot a video developing a batch of films he’d got hold of from an Ohio dealer—it turned out they were a collection of negatives from World War II."
"As affecting as those images are, with the weight of their historical value, the real glory is in the poetic mundanity of the rest of the archive: a turkey defrosting in a kitchen sink, a smashed windscreen, family hangouts, a day at the beach, an anonymous funeral. The people who took the snapshots may have died or, if they’re still alive, forgotten them entirely—we have no idea—but, in being developed this way, they come alive again." READ MORE
Mystery Solved: Footage From a Long-Lost Silent Sherlock Holmes Is Found
"William Gillette is responsible for how we see Sherlock Holmes—but the loss of his single silent film was an unsolved mystery!"
William Gillette's lost Sherlock Holmes film was an unsolved mystery—until now. Bettmann/CORBIS
"He fiddles with a curved pipe, hangs out in a stunning dressing gown and solves mysteries with an air of unflappable cool. If all three of these characteristics evoke literature’s most famous sleuth, you might want to thank a man named William Gillette instead of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle."
"Gillette, a star of stage and later the silent screen, was the first actor who captured the public imagination as Sherlock Holmes—and Gillette’s portrayal of the detective created a template for the actors who followed. But until recently, the movie that made him famous presented an intriguing mystery of its own."
"Film archivists have rediscovered a lost silent Sherlock Holmes film starring Gillette, reports Tom de Castella for BBC News. The missing movie has a long history of vexing Sherlock Holmes enthusiasts desperate for a glimpse of Gillette in mystery-solving action. For decades, its whereabouts were unknown—until it was found safe and sound in the archive of the Cinematheque Française in Paris." (READ MORE)
