About 70 years ago, an unknown soldier
in WWII shot 31 rolls of film documenting his experiences during his
service. Now, Levi Bettweiser, a collector and restorer of old and
historical film, has discovered these photos and rescued them from being
lost forever.
Bettweiser, who works with the Rescued
Film Project, discovered the undeveloped film at an auction in Ohio.
Some had been damaged by water and rust, so he wasn’t sure what to
expect; “There is a large possibility that I might not recover a single image from any of these rolls of film;” he said. But the processing work, which he did in his own kitchen, paid off: “When
I pulled the film that I had just developed out of my film development
tank and look at them, I’m the very first person that has ever seen that
picture.”
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