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".

Comments

[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!