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The image above is the 573rd frame on this roll. Selle and the other Fox Movie Flash photographers normally took 1500 pictures on each 100 ft roll of film. Each frame is associated with a ticket number. This is how, after developing the film, the correct image could be located for each purchaser. Handing out numbered tickets as they shot controlled how many exposures were made on each roll. Thus, by the 573rd frame, a little more than 1/3 of the roll has been shot. The headlines on the San Francisco News and the San Francisco Chronicle are hardly legible. However, UC Davis student Patrick Hector successfully matched this image to the headline appearing in the Chronicle on June 16, 1955 which reads, "San Jose State Coeds' Housemother is Slain".
This image appears 378 frames later - the 951st frame out of 1500. It is the same newstand - but the headlines are much more legible. The front pages are clearly different - perhaps a day or two later. Indeed, the headlines, "Peron Mobs Fire Churches" and "Anti Peron Revolt ..." refer unmistakably to events taking place in Argentina June 18, 1955. See, for example, this article from the June 18, 1955 New York Times.
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