In Cape Town just after the war there was a company called Movie Snaps. They may still be there for all I know. They employed half a dozen men with Leicas (with 50ft magazines) who took your picture as you walked along and handed you a card with a number. The next day you could go to the shop and get a print. After a few weeks the rack (a huge array of pigeon holes behind the counter) was cleared of unclaimed photos. A smart chap used to collect these. He stationed himself on the street (far from the other photographers) probably with an empty camera and after clicking the shutter handed out a card and collected, in advance, a fee of half a crown. The difference was that he guaranteed to post the picture to the victim the very same day. He did, one chosen at random, from the unclaimed ones he'd got from Movie Snaps. I don't know whether he stole them, got them from the garbage, or bought them. I have no more details -- but presume that if there had been a complaint he'd have mailed a refund without hesitation. How many would bother I wonder?
Don -- Dr E D F Williams www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ 41660 TOIVAKKA – Finland - +358400706616 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
