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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 07:54 PM
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Do you know who lost this film in Brooklyn's Prospect Park
Edited on Wed Jan-19-11 07:59 PM by intheflow
during the last blizzard? This is a story of passing on a random act of kindness. Maybe you can be part of the kindness chain.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmop7EAY1Zg

Here's the YouTube content description:

I was skiing in Brooklyn's Prospect Park and I found a roll of film. I had the film developed and this is what I found.

Please contact me if you recognize the people in the photos. brooklynfoundfilm@gmail.com

Thanks everyone for the support! Your emails and messages have been amazing. As of Wednesday Jan 19th at 1AM -- I have NOT found the owners of the film. I'll keep you updated.

By the way -- This story is 100% true. Cross my heart. I didn't realize that would even be an issue for some people. haha. Just interested in telling my story and finding the owners.


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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 08:04 PM
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1. Nice story... I saw this yesterday on Americablog...
Seems like it is at least getting some attention.
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-19-11 11:01 PM
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2. It'd be nice if it went viral.
It's a nice gesture this guy's making.
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-11 01:05 AM
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3. Kick before bed.
:kick:
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Shanti Mama Donating Member (625 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-11 06:28 AM
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4. Random acts of kindness...
I'd like to support this one. Have posted to my FB profile.
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-11 11:11 AM
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6. I found this on FB.
So it's very karmic that you posted it there, too. :thumbsup:
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-11 06:37 AM
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5. There's a cool website about this very thing..
A guy who buys cameras often finds film (undeveloped) in them and started developing them & posting them with captions & musings about the people in the pics..

http://westfordcomp.com/updated/found.htm

here's one

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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-11 12:46 PM
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7. I hope this shot was a reenactment
and that whoever posted this didn't find some lost film of Honest Abe himself. :silly:
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-11 01:05 PM
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8. I think it was from some celebration..
Edited on Thu Jan-20-11 01:06 PM by SoCalDem
some of the shots at that site are quite sad.. Pictures of people, long gone & their relatives don't even know those pics exist,..


Life is short, and when it's over few people remember us.
After a generation, it's as if we never lived at all.
The places we lived are home to others.
The things we owned fail and are thrown away.
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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-20-11 05:54 PM
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9. I found a whole bunch of photos after Katrina
walking around the ruins of homes along the Mississippi Coast. I still have a few. I collected them thinking I might be able to track down the people who they belonged to - obviously family photos that someone, somewhere is missing. But who would that be? Where might they be? The photos could have come from that particular housing ruin or another home two miles down the coast. You couldn't even identify what the original address of those ruins were, and there was no system in place to track where those families had gone. Tragic and sad, indeed.
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