See them walking hand in hand across the bridge at midnight

[venta]

A conversation, between three slightly hipsterish young gentlemen on making lo-fi music, overheard last night:

- The first one was just made in the bedroom. Tom had this single bongo drum he kept hitting...
- It was a snare drum.
- ... And I just had a camera roll full of rice. You know, a camera roll. One of those black plastic things camera rolls used to come in.

O, children of the iPhone generation. The word you are looking for is "film".

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[sammason.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling old now! When I were a lass, films came in little square frames made, I think, of cardboard. Or maybe they didn't.

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

Slides. Or, if you're even older, magic lantern...

[sammason.livejournal.com]

Not that old but perhaps I missed a treat! http://www.magiclantern.org.uk/index.php

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

My mother used to tell me about the magic lantern shows from when she was a girl. They were generally stories from the Bible, or else evangelistic stories about lives being transformed.
"When they turned to the Lord, you knew it was nearly time to come home."

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

I have a friend-of-a-friend who keeps magic lanterns and got to see a show a couple of times. They're great fun.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Would that be after they were developed?

I don't remember film coming in anything other than little plastic drums (black, grey lid). Although they came in cardboard boxes.

[zotz]

35mm film comes on rolls in plastic canisters. 110 and 126 came in plastic packages.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Good point!

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

That would be...Girls on that black plastic camera roll...probably the sound effect at the beginning of said song is also a mystery to them.

[venta.livejournal.com]

One kudo to you for the girls.

I was listening to Emma Conquest the other day, and one of their songs opens with the sound of a dial-up modem. It sounded so futuristic at the time! Now... err... less so.

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

You don't really keep a record of kudos, do you?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Goodness no, I expect people to keep their own records :)

[ringbark.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought. It's only because I keep so many records that I am able to get a kudo from time to time, of course.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

Today's kids don't have film canisters so they can't form a club for people who own film canisters with the aim of filling them with water and throwing them at people. A club called 'The Terror of the Waterbomb'. Poor deprived little things.

[exspelunca.livejournal.com]

... or, as Venta will tell you, for keeping your matches dry at scout camp/DofE award hikes.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Film canisters have a million uses! They're nearly as good as Gold Block tins!

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

I still keep sewing needles in one. Perfect size, and secure.

[lnr]

Sewing needles in one, pins in another, easily distinguished as the needles one usually has a thread dangling from it.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Two fairly old-looking "young people" (er, 22+? But not over 30) were on my bus yesterday earnestly discussing an "amazing" film that one of them had just watched and was urging the other to view at his earliest convenience, although there were some bits of the plot that just didn't make any sense. I listened to the (rather detailed) plot explanation for a couple of minutes before realising that the film was "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" and the biggest problem the speaker had with the plot was "if anyone had just rung his mobile they'd have caught him". Bless.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Errr... Oh dear. Ferris Bueller, period drama. Right.