Category Archives: history

Portraits of a Digital Canada

Posted on April 3, 2019 by Robert

Toronto. On April 24th, an exhibit opens at York University featuring photographs from the IBM Canada Archives which were donated to the university by IBM Canada, incorporated back in 1917.  The images illustrate the technological and social landscape of our … Continue reading →

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do you remember when colour prints were an option?

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Robert

Toronto. The year was 1955 and in the May 30th issue of LIFE on page 45, Kodak boldly promoted the use of its color print film for those special occasions! Colour prints had a big plus and many minuses… Colour … Continue reading →

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before we had Google for news

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Robert

Toronto. These are the presses that printed my favourite newspaper in 1939. The image is from the Globe archives and details are from an article in Monday’s Globe by Shelby Blackly. The Presses (and the Globe and Mail) were located … Continue reading →

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Photographs of Minna Keene and her daughter Violet Perinchief

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Robert

Toronto. The Stephen Bulger Gallery is holding an exhibition of early 20th century photographs by these two women called MINNA KEENE & VIOLET KEENE PERINCHIEF Two Generations of Photography. The exhibition runs from March 9th to April 20th with the … Continue reading →

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the charm of 3D for kids

Posted on February 11, 2019 by Robert

Toronto. My wife had a View-Master and light source and reels when she was little down in New Toronto. A few years later this ad appeared on page 58 of the January 17th, 1955 issue of LIFE magazine. The charm … Continue reading →

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sliding into focus

Posted on January 29, 2019 by Robert

Toronto. As we casually view the colour images on front of our smartphones, we may forget the long torturous route taken from crude monochrome glass slides projected on a sheet or screen in a darkened room to 35mm or 2×2 … Continue reading →

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blossoms without petals

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Robert

Toronto. I am truly blessed having so many post ideas sent to me. This one came in Thursday from Goldie. In November 1954, two manufacturers took out ads in LIFE magazine but neither company used cameras in their ad. On … Continue reading →

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lighting up history

Posted on January 22, 2019 by Robert

Toronto. Around a century ago and earlier, cameras used glass plates to hold the sensitive media. Since the luminance values were reversed, the image on the plate was a negative. To view the image you needed an educated eye, and … Continue reading →

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lighting the way

Posted on January 17, 2019 by Robert

Toronto. Tom Edison’s company got into the blossoming flashbulb era of the 1950s and 60s as shown in a September 6, 1954 LIFE magazine two page spread (pp30, 31). One of our society’s presidents and founders, the late Larry Boccioletti, shown … Continue reading →

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you do remember movies, don’t you?

Posted on December 23, 2018 by Robert

Toronto. In 1922 Europe, a French company developed a home projector to show copies of commercial 35mm movies at home in a new format called 9.5mm. Shortly after their projectors retailed, Pathé introduced a companion movie camera using the same standard. … Continue reading →

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