Selle's Pictures

Joseph Selle - Fox Movie Flash

Sequence of Rolls Scanned 2003-2011

Part I

With support from Mr. Irv Schankman, on September 11, 2003, 12 rolls of film selected at random were digitized at Postworks in New York City. Over 19,000 digital images resulted from one morning's scanning. This material has been subsequently analyzed and utilized in a variety of creative and research projects by Chris Burnett, Dave Mount, Rennie Pritikin, Jack Tillmany, Elisabeth Tonnard, and myself. Some rolls have yielded their riches more easily than others. Some are just frankly more interesting than others. We seldom know much about the "who, what, when, where, why, how" differences from one roll to another. Does a roll that is mostly fuzzy, people out of synch and generally muddy imply something about the skill of the photographer, the mental state of the photographer, the prevailing mood owing to the weather, other factors, all of the above? Discoveries continue to emerge - often by surprise.

Part I - Roll A - Market St., Pix Theatre - ca 1960 Introduction

Part I - Roll B - Market St., Pix Theatre - ca 1960 Introduction ca April-June 1961 date per Tillmany "Never on Sunday"

Part I - Roll C - Union Square Introduction Zoomable Mosaic Thumbnail pages 3-11 from Cliff House - no date

Part I - Roll D - Market St., Union Square, ca 1961 Introduction Zoomable Mosaic

Part I - Roll E - Market St., Union Square, ca Fall 1956 Introduction

Part I - Roll F - Market St., Union Square, September 28, 1956 Date per newspaper headline.

Part I - Roll G - Market St., Union Square

Part I - Roll H - Market St. - Pix Theatre at Night - Fall 1963 Notes & Analysis

Part I - Roll I - Market St.

Part I - Roll J - Market St.

Part I - Roll K - Market St.

Part I - Roll L - Market St.

Part II

With support from Mr. Phil Kates, beginning in March 2009 an even larger selection of rolls have been digitized. In the intervening six years, digital scanning technology has become more available such that we can now do the scanning right here in Rochester at the Eastman Kodak Company. We benefit now from better/faster/cheaper to the extent that the resources currently available may well allow us to digitize about 20-25% of this enormous collection. Part I accomplished less than 1%.

Part II - Roll A - Union Square, some Cliff House (pg 13-15) - ca 1950s

Part II - Roll B - California State Fair Sacramento - ca 1950s **

Part II - Roll C - Union Square - June 1955 Notes & Analysis **

Part II - Roll D - Union Square, some Cliff House (pg 5-9) - ca 1950s **

Part III - Scanned April 2009 (These rolls were spliced together "tails out" rendering the sequencing within each roll chronologically backwards.)

Part III - Roll A - Union Square, January 1955 per Jack Tillmany's identification of "Silver Chalice" at St. Francis Theatre.

Part III - Roll B - Union Square, date waiting for Jack

Part III - Roll CD - Union Square, December 1959 per Jack Tillmany's identification of "Never So Few" at Loew's.

Part III - Roll E - Union Square, some Cliff House (pg 5-9) - Fall 1960 per JFK campaign poster JFK campaign worker Nixon voter

Part III - Roll F - Union Square - Summer 1955 per Jack Tillmany's identification of "To Catch a Thief" at St. Francis Theatre marquee.

Part III - Roll G - Union Square - Powell & Geary - April 14, 1954 per newspaper headline: (Carl Bobo Ols)on Floors (Joey) Maxim in ...Easy Win The boxing match took place at San Francisco's Cow Palace April 13, 1954. Very shaky photography on much of this roll.

Part III - Roll H - Union Square - October 1955 - tentative date. When was the Lani shipwreck and the ousting of Viet Emperor?