Well, I tried to save this film, but it just wasn’t possible. The water damage had made the wettest section of the film fuse pretty hard. Every time I’d come around to that section on the reel, it would hang, then tear. Eventually, I couldn’t open up the tear to continue unwinding the film. It also had some mold growth (and we know where that leads). I also really wanted the reel to install on “Reel Wall” but I’ll have to live without it.
So here are some more images of the horrible beauty of water damage on film. The swirls and spots and dustings of emulsion fascinate me and I can’t resist taking pictures, even though I’m sorry to have to dispose of the film.
A beetle officiates at an insect wedding. As near as we can tell the bride is a dragonfly and the groom is a moth. One of the many anthropomorphic drawings in the satirical French work Scénes de la Vie Privée et Publique des Animaux (1842). An obscure work today, at least in the English=speaking world, this work by J.J. Grandville involved collaboration with some of the great French writers of the time, including Balzac and George Sand.
The Japanese emperor or great purple emperor(Sasakia charonda), is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is native to Japan, the Korean Peninsula, China, northern Taiwan and northern Vietnam.
The caterpillar of the species (above) feed on hackberries.
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