click image to view in Flash | Quicktime | MPEG-2 (soon) Nolan Pelletier of Connecticut, USA, has one of my favorite streams on Flickr, the owls go. It s a collection of found photos and slides picked up at estate and garage sales - odd, poignant, charming, and adorable images of strangers from eras past. Here, Nolan offers a few home movies his picked up in his collecting travels. Because they re found films, details can often be hard to come by, but Nolan offers a description of this particular gem: This film is from the estate of a family who lived only 2 or 3 minutes from my house. It s very odd to see the neighborhood they lived in 50 years ago. From what I can gather, this film was taken by the mother. She worked for the American School for the Deaf, and these were taken there. There are several reels of footage of all the children gathered for different occasions. They were all taken in the mid to late 1960s. I would love to know where these kids are today. They re all pretty adorable. The American School for the Deaf was founded in 1817 and is based in West Hartford, Connecticut. Students there also made this quite interesting website, Deaf is . This post is among the last new entries Lost in Light will be making, as we prepare to retire the project. It s been a wonderful year and a half, but our lives beckon us toward other projects. The site will remain up and complete as an archive of all these wonderful films we have collected. thanks to everyone who has participated in this labor of love.
