https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ed3400ce-f06b-47e6-927b-28de6abcfa50 Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com View our Amazon store here: https://amzn.to/3XQHsVD “The Cameracade” is a silent, color 40s-era promotional film by the Master Photo Finishers of America (f.1924). The film promotes the art and hobby of panchromatic and black and white photography, “America’s fastest growing hobby” at the time, and presents wonderful vintage images of people using analog cameras to document their everyday lives. Film opens, seal for Master Photo Finishers of America, title page (0:07). Man holds up what appears to be Vokar Model B 120mm camera (0:42). Covers of popular magazines highlighting photography: LIFE, Popular Photography, Photo Art Monthly, Photographic Digest (0:58). Family keepsakes and the family album: Nuclear family poses for camera on lake-side family summer trip, young women and mom wear examples of 1940s summer fashion (1:18). Kodak Retina II (type 122) camera (2:01). Capturing family: Young girl in bathing suit at summer cabin, little boy in red coat sits in field (2:05). Capturing changing seasons: Montage various vibrant flora and fauna i.e. tigridia pavonia, water lilies, changing fall foliage, birch trees (2:59). Winter scenes: Snow blankets either side of path through alpine forest; Developed stills of winter scenes (4:38). Documenting travel by plane, train etc: Douglas DC-3 takes off from tarmac, camera captures arid landscape from speeding train, what appears to be 1940 Cadillac Sixty Special Sedan pulls trailer through wooded area (5:10). Union Pacific EMC E2 locomotive (6:26). Documenting trips to national parks: Chittenden Memorial Bridge (Rainbow Bridge) at Yellowstone National Park (6:32). Snow-covered mountainous terrain, smoke billows from diesel locomotive as it passes through valley (7:35). Various scenic captures of Grand Canyon (8:30). Man uses what appears to be 1930s-era medium-format plate-folding camera, shots of Niagara Falls, developed stills of Niagara Falls scenes (9:09). Camera that appears similar to British Agilux Agiflex II (9:59). Camera pans scenic views of somewhere likely in Pacific Northwest, snow-covered mountain peaks overlook deep blue body of water (10:14). McNary Dam in Oregon (10:34). San Francisco Area: Golden Gate Bridge, fresh caught shellfish at Fisherman's Wharf (10:55). Washington Monument and cherry blossom trees in bloom (11:25). Vibrant LED-light display advertisement for Wrigley’s Spearmint gum in Times Square, NYC (11:46). Agfa Ansco B-2 Shur-Shot (12:05). Montage serene footage of waves rolling into shore at various beaches, ocean at sunset (12:07). Master photo finishing laboratory, look at journey from camera to final finished prints (12:49). 1940s photo shop on commercial street of town, cameras and Kodak film advertised in window; Two women go into store to develop rolls of 120mm medium format film (13:24). Two female employees at photo development lab in store sit at desk and prepare film roll for development, sort and organize by various emulsions needed for development (14:06). Film development process using modern film developing machine, entire process of making prints on an industrial scale (14:32). After drying, exposures cut and placed into envelopes (15:59). Skilled operators use mechanically timed printers, prints made on special paper (six types) to account for contrast in film (16:15). Conveyor belt carries exposed prints into temperature controlled developing solution (16:59). Skilled developer oversees development process and ensures prints developed with full, even tones before tossing print into acid bath (to stop development), “hypo fixing solution” (17:24). Woman sets prints in modern dyer where they are dried and finished with lustrous high gloss (18:29). Final development stage: Print straightening, trimming, sorting (18:59). Happy customers look at their developed photos for the first time (19:47). Enlargement process (20:08). Person sifts through enlarged prints of many landscape shots (22:16). Family gathers in living room and looks through developed photos, happily look back at fond memories (22:42). Step-by-step how-to for getting beautiful pictures from camera: Keeping camera clean, interesting poses and subjects, setting shutter speed and aperture (23:01). Man cleans dust from lens of Agfa Isolette camera (23:18). Film ends (24:48). This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpNrVecT9so Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:29:47 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ed3400ce-f06b-47e6-927b-28de6abcfa50 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.