Shannon here...  Color photographs do fade. Unfortunately, the color dyes used in the image irreversibly decay with time. Light increases fading. Fading increases with the brightness of the light and the length of time in the light. When displayed, photos should be kept away from direct sunlight or bright lamps that are left on constantly. Heat also increases fading, even at moderate temperatures, such as 70-75F, found in homes. At these temperatures, fading always occurs, even in the dark! Color photos will last longer if stored in the dark, in a cool dry location. Ususally it's the blue hues in photos that go 1st - it gives them a orange hue. Thankfully with programs like Photoshop you can digitally enhance the blue hues to bring the photograph almost back to the original. |
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Faded photographs
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Here we have another example of a fine photo, but not a chance to identify the wagon number behind the Beattys. What would anyone guess about the year--late 1940s rail show?
I cropped down the picture for the Blog Site but now looking at it in full form the wagon has half doors at the top and the bottom half lowers down into a tail gate with steps.
The left door bears the number nine but the right door is folded back out of sight. So it is either wagon #9 or
#9?
On the back of the picture is says: Huntington, Indiana Aug. 1950.
Message for Roger S.
You probably know all this. In fact, you may have been there. But at least two major films were shot on the Clyde Beatty Circus. "Ring of Fear" (a kind of Micky Spillane mystery/adventure)released in 1954. And Martin & Lewis' "3 Ring Circus" also out in 1954. (The web site www.imdb.com has lots of details on each film.) In the latter film, I remember all the wagons were cleverly repainted to read: Clyde Brent. The Clyde Beatty railroad circus never came to where I lived as a kid. And so I was thrilled to watch these films. These films were, for me, the best pictures, the best record of what the tents, wagons (many of them, former Sparks wagons built in the middle to late 1940s), trains, animals,and people on the Clyde Beatty show were like. In fact, the films are probably a terrific historical record of Clyde Beatty's railroad circus in the 1950s.
ToddR
Re: The date August, 1950. Mrs. Beatty died only two months later.
Re: ToddR's entry. I wasn't quite there yet. My time with Mr. Beatty was 1964, ten years after he filmed RING OF FEAR. His Hollywood pal, John Wayne, produced it for him with partner Bob Fellows, out of Warner Bros. Spillane shared co-star billing. Paramount used the Beatty show for THREE RING CIRCUS, but wouldn't spring for the Beatty name, thus the Clyde Brent title. We had a few of the Brent wagons at Jungleland. Both pictures' circus scenes were shot in Phoenix, and on TRC, Martin & Lewis had the major conflict that led to their break-up.
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