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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jun 26, 2011 19:31:58 GMT -5
Someone just posted this photo today on Facebook, captioned exactly as follows: "Here's a photo of my Dad... the little blond boy watching the tug of war with the baseball bat... this is a photo still from one of the Our Gang episodes. I'm not sure which episode: Anyone know?" It doesn't look familiar to me, but I've found that it's not uncommon for still shots from Our Gang to be hard for me to positively identify. Does anyone here recognize the scene as pictured? Attachments:
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Post by ymymeatemup on Jun 29, 2011 1:35:09 GMT -5
Definitely not Our Gang. Not sure it's from one of the rival series, either, as none of the kids look familiar.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 1, 2011 22:11:54 GMT -5
That was what I was thinking, but I still haven't seen all of the Our Gang silents, so I couldn't be sure that this wasn't a scene from one of them. I don't even recognize the characters in the foreground of this picture, though, so I can only guess at what the film series might be.
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Post by fourlittlerascals on Jul 10, 2011 17:36:52 GMT -5
Something from this doesn't look old enough to be a silent-the way the kids hair styles are and how they're dressed; it almost looks 50's -- maybe 40's with those knickers --
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Post by rhapsody on Jul 10, 2011 18:14:28 GMT -5
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 10, 2011 18:33:13 GMT -5
My first thought when looking at the picture had been that the image quality was surprisingly good for a film from the silent era. If it is from a silent movie, then I think it's definitely a print of higher quality than your average screen shot. A photo that had been handed down by the actor pictured in the scene to his descendants as a memento of his cinema experience would likely meet that standard of quality.
By the way, I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. Demoss, and evidently Mickey Gubitosi was as well, if in a somewhat morose state at the moment the image was captured. ;-) I like the new avatar, though I think I'll miss the Bobby Hutchins one. That was my favorite picture of him! :-)
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Post by ymymeatemup on Jul 10, 2011 18:54:06 GMT -5
My first thought when looking at the picture had been that the image quality was surprisingly good for a film from the silent era. If it is from a silent movie, then I think it's definitely a print of higher quality than your average screen shot. A photo that had been handed down by the actor pictured in the scene to his descendants as a memento of his cinema experience would likely meet that standard of quality. If I'm understanding you correctly, you seem to be implying that the still photos used to advertise films actually derived from the motion picture footage. If so, then this was not the case - there was always a still photographer present to snap the publicity photos, and the cameras generally used very large negatives, so the images were routinely very sharp and crisp. By the way, I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. Demoss, and evidently Mickey Gubitosi was as well, if in a somewhat morose state at the moment the image was captured. ;-) I like the new avatar, though I think I'll miss the Bobby Hutchins one. That was my favorite picture of him! :-) Just a temporary gag. Wheezer will be back after awhile - that's my favorite shot of him as well. |
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 10, 2011 19:10:15 GMT -5
If I'm understanding you correctly, you seem to be implying that the still photos used to advertise films actually derived from the motion picture footage. If so, then this was not the case - there was always a still photographer present to snap the publicity photos, and the cameras generally used very large negatives, so the images were routinely very sharp and crisp. I think that I may not have been quite clear in my meaning. I only meant that the picture she was showing of her father in his movie role was probably a photo that she personally owned, rather than a screen shot lifted from a recording of the film. If the latter had been the case—and if it was, in fact, a silent film in which her father appeared—then the quality of the picture she was showing would probably be grainier, and the actors' features harder to discern. |
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Post by ymymeatemup on Jul 10, 2011 19:16:01 GMT -5
I think that I may not have been quite clear in my meaning. I only meant that the picture she was showing of her father in his movie role was probably a photo that she personally owned, rather than a screen shot lifted from a recording of the film. If the latter had been the case—and if it was, in fact, a silent film in which her father appeared—then the quality of the picture she was showing would probably be grainier, and the actors' features harder to discern. Okay, now that you've said that and I re-read the previous message, it makes sense. As Emily Litella would say, "Never mind." |
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Post by zootmoney on Jul 11, 2011 0:36:27 GMT -5
Am I the only one who finds it creepy that those 3 boys in the front row have their hands on each others knees? |
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Post by ymymeatemup on Jul 11, 2011 1:56:57 GMT -5
Am I the only one who finds it creepy that those 3 boys in the front row have their hands on each others knees? I'm thinking it was the middle one's idea. |
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Post by littlerascal4891 on Jul 11, 2011 18:50:48 GMT -5
Haha, I laughed at the kids in the front row. Did anyone notice the smug kid in the back row... no one is standing by him lol. Must be the trouble maker.
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Post by mickeygubitosifan on Jul 11, 2011 21:04:55 GMT -5
Another new Mickey Gubitosi picture. :-) It's a subtle change, but noticeable.
I find it somewhat interesting that the class photos were taken of the class as an entire unit, rather than having photographed the students individually. Nowadays, official class pictures are usually done with the kids isolated, and then the solo snapshots are all put together alphabetically on a single photo sheet to make the official picture.
I wonder if the slowness of the original daguerreotype photo process, which patently caused it to be much easier and more efficient to capture a single image than a bunch of solitary ones, helped make the "big group" class photos an established practice. As time went along, then, and the picture development process continued to become faster and cheaper, eventually schools switched to creating class pictures on a person-by-person basis, since that would make it easier to order the class alphabetically without variations in personal height complicating matters.
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Post by ymymeatemup on Jul 11, 2011 21:07:19 GMT -5
Did anyone notice the smug kid in the back row... no one is standing by him lol. Must be the trouble maker. Something tells me he's been wearing those same clothes everyday and hasn't washed them since last summer. |
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Post by mtw12055 on Jul 11, 2011 21:17:13 GMT -5
Out of the 'leg-touching' boys in the front middle of the photo, the one on the far right looks most disturbed by the whole situation.
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