The Anne Frank museum has publicized the only existing film footage showing Anne Frank. In this film you can see her leaning out of the window.

War is such a waste.

July 22 1941. The girl next door is getting married. Anne Frank is leaning out of the window of her house in Amsterdam to get a good look at the bride and groom. It is the only time Anne Frank has ever been captured on film. At the time of her wedding, the bride lived on the second floor at Merwedeplein 39. The Frank family lived at number 37, also on the second floor.

Anne Frank Museum home page. (via)

One thing I do and will miss when editing video/digital film are those flash frames. The few frames that are exposed when the camera gets up to speed, and when it stops again, the gate is checked, the mag is changed, the film is laced.

As a side line, we do conversions of 8mm films and videos. The other day I transferred a roll that consisted almost entirely of flash frames. Add some Mussorgsky to it (via Q-Music) and we have my very first YouTube upload:

And if you need that video in full quality, drop me a line…

Another thing of the past are burned frames – sometimes the film would get stuck in the projector, and the projector´s lamp being quite strong, would burn the film. Here are two examples from the past: