Time capsule : a roll of film exposed inside a FED

Hi,

Just received a Fed 1 NKVD and while checking it I found a roll of film inside...

Here's some pictures, enjoy ;)

Pictures from the 60's or 70's ?

That one shows the building of a monument with the red star on it :

No information about the brand name of the film. It was inside a reloadable cassette. I processed the film with Ilford Microphen (50 minutes)

Great find, Jed!

By the car, which should be a Jiguli (a Soviet version of the Italian Fiat 124, known as "Lada" in France), it could be the 1970/80 years.
I owned a Fiat 124, then a 125 in the 65/75 years. Rather impressive and nervous for that time!

Funny and interesting to find that in a prewar Fed...

Amitiйs. Jacques.

Jed,

nice pictures. I seldom have developed a film I have found inside a camera. The most of them were color films, about 10 or 20 years old. Once there was an Ilford PAN F that I developed in Rodinal but it was mostly blank.

Your pictures are interesting. Because of the cars (Lada?) I think it is 70ies or 80ies.

Ulrich

http://fotos.cconin.de

The shutter has an issue with one curtain you can see in the pictures. Will send it to repair.

The negative is 36 exposures - it shows a trip with friend (Lada car), family reunion, process of building a Soviet ensemble and a wedding (I think - there's a woman in white, see following picture)

This "basic" VAZ-Lada-Zhiguli was made from 1970 onwards, so not very likely to be early 70ies in USSR where the queue for cars was terribly long (several years).
And if I see correctly, there is a Miscga flag hanging from rear view mirror?
The 2nd car is most likely Izh-2715, produced from 1973 on. Not sure if Moskvitsch made the van version at all?

Best regards,
Juhani

Very cool! Yeah the Zhuguli looks like a 01 or 11 model. Hard to tell by the quality of pictures . Pictures definitely taken somewhere in Ukraine, even though I can't find that particular monument anywhere...

"YCCP" on the second photo. So, it's in Ukraine?
But probably this sigla was no more used in the eighties... So, do we have two different periods for these photos?

Sure, somebody will find the names of the persons, Jed!

I've sent a message to the seller. If asked I'll send back the negatives.
I've bought many cameras over the years and seldom found film inside. Only half a dozen. A couple of years I bought a 6/6 Zeiss Ikonta with very old film inside in a flea market in Paris. Once I found it I returned the film to the woman who sold the camera to me - she told me the camera was a family item. Later I meet her again only to discover she never processed the film - she wasn't interested... That's sad !

Please look closer or enlarge the rear view mirror flag: is it Mishka, mascot for Moscow Olympics?

Best regards,
Juhani

Hi Juhani !

I just have email to you a better file ;)

What do you say, I would say it is Mishka, so around 1980

Congratulations Juhani !!!

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Originally posted by cedricfan

... so around 1980

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Yes. Not earlier 1978.

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Originally posted by cedricfan

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This is better:

Excellent, thank you Zoom :)

Best regards,
Juhani

Juhani, how could you notice Mishka on this photo ? Was you specially trained in recognizing details ?

Jacques, so you bought 125 in 1965. Could you show a photo of your car. I know this is forum of Russian cameras not Italian cars so ... you can write the photo was made with Jupiter 8.
I'm asking because in 1965 I had no chance to buy anything. I was not borned yet but I had 125p 30 years later.

I collect Mishka's also

Best regards,
Juhani

PS: I even collect cars & bikes, so this picture was a huge pleasure to my eyes

Thanks for this is good explanation. I had thought I'm half-blind. Half because I have noticed a car, even 2 cars. Now I can be cool, there is nothing wrong with my eyes.

Hello to everyone.

This is my first post here.

Anyway, It's an interesting find you made jed. Just think of the stories that could be hiding on that film. What if there's a photo of someone who went missing some time after the pics were taken? What if someone could've proved their innocence of a crtime because these pics show that they were not at a the crime scene when the crime was done but no-one remembered about the pics?

Hi Sean !
Welcome here ;)
I wish every used camera I buy came with exposed film inside. A couple of weeks ago I found another film inside a FSU camera, sadly it was blank :(