Found Film

Old film rolls from flea markets, scanned and put online. Someone's vacations, birthdays, random Tuesdays — forgotten in a drawer for decades. I don't know where or when these were taken. Help me figure it out.

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Photos we can't place yet. Look for clues — street signs, car models, architecture — and help figure out where and when they were taken.

Identified — thanks to investigators

Real frames cracked by people who spotted what nobody else did.

San Francisco — Kearny St (marquee, '76 Firebird, Fotomat booth)
Was: Unidentified American street scene
Identified: San Francisco — Kearny St (marquee, '76 Firebird, Fotomat booth)
Prague — Old Town Hall, Tatra T603 in frame
Was: Unknown European old town
Identified: Prague — Old Town Hall, Tatra T603 in frame
Lower Manhattan — World Trade Center
Was: Unknown city skyline
Identified: Lower Manhattan — World Trade Center

These are the photos nobody thought were worth keeping — and they're the most honest record of how people actually lived. A roll of Agfa from 1968 could only be from 1968. Putting these online is the only shot at getting a photo back to the people in it.

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Hundreds of rolls. Thousands of frames. Most of them unidentified.

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