LOOKIN’ FOR A HOME: I was recently gifted this box of 1920s/1930s glass transparency slides, which appear to be from an old Los Angeles Theater. These are the slides they would show before and during intermissions for films.
They are pretty incredible, not only theater instructions: “ONE MINUTE INTERMISSION—for change of reel” but also photos of Los Angeles in the 1920s, photos of notable Angelenos from the same time period, random Los Angeles houses, Rotary Club meetings, etc. etc.
I’m not sure what this process was called, but these images were printed onto glass slides and then preserved with a thick tape around the edges for handling. Some of them are hand colored. I’m sure they are one-of-a-kind images, or the last surviving examples of these photos. Some of them have a few different Los Angeles film processing labs name and address on the edges.
There are about fifty slides in the box I have. I’d like to sell them very reasonably, or give them away to a proper film or photo library, university, etc. that might have interest in preserving and digitizing these images.
I love them but I have no idea what I’d do with them, and they’re too neat to just sit in a drawer for years, ignored.
Let me know if someone out there is interested!
See more photos at Deke’s original Facebook post!
