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Some of the boys at the Smiths Falls Malleable Casting Company. Click to see the full panoramic photo\/<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Group photos were often taken over the years to show the team players in a school, plant, or factory for a given year. Smiths Falls pre-WW2 was a very active Canadian factory town with \u00a0a number of impressive industries. Here are the boys at the “Smiths Falls Malleable Castings Company<\/a>” in 1944.<\/p>\n

It was popular to use a panoramic photograph like the one here. Such extra wide photos were taken by a special camera like the Cirkut<\/a>. The patent was taken out by William Johnston, buried here in Toronto. NB. Parks Canada have a brief story<\/a> about ‘Malleable’; its founding and its demise (see pages 313\/4 and look at the index near the beginning for other notes and<\/em> pictures).<\/p>\n

The PHSC journal, Photographic Canadiana<\/em>, has many articles on panoramic photos such as this one titled, “Monster Panoramic Photographs Found Beneath (Ontario) Legislature Floor<\/em>” found in issue 31-1 on page 20 (members get\/can request a free searchable CD index of the first FORTY issues of the Journal and copies of those issues as well). The index is also available on Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n

George Dunbar spotted this interesting photo in the Smiths Falls Public Library<\/a> and sent it along for all of us to enjoy. Photographs by Cirkut camera were in vogue for a few decades. And yes, there is NO apostrophe in Smiths Falls as far as I can tell.<\/p>\n

My mother and her sister are in a c1930 school photo by Cirkut, while years later I was in a non-panoramic (group was small) plant photo (late 1950s). Our late editor Bob Lansdale often took group photos with a regular camera. I saw one case where he used a stairway to good advantage.<\/p>\n

Long forgotten, these extra wide group photos are often collected by members and a few have popped up on our show and tell sessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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