Exclusive 31 Rolls of Film during World War II.

The Rescued Film Project heeft een korte film documentatie vrijgegeven waarin Levi Bettweiser 31 unieke rolletjes uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog ontwikkelt. Ieder van de rolletjes werd geschoten door een soldaat in de periode ’40-’45. Sommige van de filmrolletjes waren zelfs gewikkeld in briefjes met persoonlijk geschreven – en getypte – brieven. Een historische vondst.

“When I pull the film that I just developed out my developing tank, I am the very first person who has ever seen that picture. They’ve never been enjoyed, they’ve never been remembered and so it almost increases the weight of the importance of that photo because it has never had those moments before. And that’s the goal of the rescued film project.

We really look at every roll of film as if its the photographer’s mark in history … as them kind of saying, Hey, I exist and these moments in time were important to me! And even if the photographer is not around to remember them, we want to reveal the images to the world because those moments in time that were captured on these forgotten rolls film were important to someone at some point.

A huge hurdle when it comes to developing old film it that it has been rolled up on those rolls tightly for a long, long time. Anything that’s been wound up tight that long, really doesn’t want to be unwound … There is a large possibility that I might not recover a single image from any of these rolls of film.”