Posted on 01/09/2019 10:25:06 AM PST by C19fan
I've never seen Hudsucker. Tim Robbins makes me puke.
There was a program, in the old days, to send a rocket above the atmosphere. The rocket carried a camera and film, intending to shoot astronomical objects from above the distorting air.
After the exposures were made, the camera was ejected from the rocket and parachuted back to earth. They retrieved the camera without incident, but when the black and white film was developed, it was discovered, too late, that the camera lens was stopped down, underexposing the film drastically.
They wrote the mission off, and gave the film to a woman who worked at the facility as they had no use for it.
The woman took the film and irradiated it, making the image-forming metallic silver radioactive. Then she contact printed the negatives using only radiation for a light source. It worked. She rescued the mission.
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