Picture This

In today's digital age, it's a lot harder to lose pictures than it was when cameras weren't attached to our cell phones and required actual film. Many photographs have been lost to time because owners lost the film or the actual cameras.

Enter The Rescued Film Project. This is an online archive of images that were captured on film from the 1930's through the 1990's. Every photo was taken with an intent to eventually be seen, and the Levi Bettweiser, founder and film technician for the Project, can help these photos come to life.

Bettwieser at work. Photo courtesy of hayo.com

Recently, the project develped 31 rolls of film from WWII, and the photographs are incredible. Check out this awesome short film about the process and the results, and be sure to check out http://www.rescuedfilm.com/ to see more photos. National Geographic interviewed Bettwieser about the origins of the project, read that here.