The identity of the boy appearing on the film found from the Soviet camera 27 years ago was found out and the photograph was handed over to the hand of the person himself photographed

When a camera collector purchased a used camera in Russia, I found a used film from inside. I asked for information through SNS and photographic magazine about "Who is the boy on the developed film?" Finally, I found out that I was able to find the person himself and pass the photograph, and various photographs and images around the world Archive large quantitiesFlashbakThe collector himself reports on.

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Elisabeth Blanche, who lives in France in July 2017 and hobbies cameras, traveled to Moscow on vacation to find a camera in Moscow's flea market. In that flea market, Mr. Blanche bought a camera "Elikon 35 C" manufactured in the Soviet Union in the 1980s at about 15 pounds (about 2200 yen) as a souvenir for her sister.


Returning to France, I checked the camera to teach Elikon 35 C's film exchange method to my sister, which means that there was already a film in the camera. Blanche rolled up the film in Elikon 35 C and collected it. Blanche who thought that it might be something on the film maybe, he brought it to a photographer who always uses the film found from Elikon 35 C and developed it. There was no serious damage to the film, and when I looked at the monochrome photos baked safely, I saw a boy and family members that were seen as 6 to 7 years old.



Mr. Blancy thought "I want to find a boy in the photo", but Elikon 35 C where the film was in was acquired at the flea market in Russia and it does not make it at all what exactly it is from did. So Blanche enthuses "Find the Russian boy" (Find Russian boy) on his Instagram and Facebook and looks for a boy on the film.


At SNS, many people thought about seeing pictures and getting clues, but from judging from the uniform of a boy, it is only a picture of the Soviet Union era, apparently that it seems to be an entrance ceremony or a graduation ceremony It was. Mr. Blanche is a Russian photographic magazine "RosphotoPlease also contact me and I would like you to cooperate in finding a boy. " The Rosphoto editorial department who likes this story seems to have responded to cooperation by posting photos of boys in magazines and asking for information with their own SNS account.


Thanks to Rosphoto spreading on the Internet, about six weeks after finding out, and to Mr. Blanche "Hello, my name is Dmitry, I am a Russian boy you are looking for" A contact will arrive. Mr. Blanche, who was looking for it while saying "I can not find it anyhow", seemed to be surprised, thinking that he could find himself in only one and a half months.

Mr. Dmitry seems to have received a message from his father's friend, "I think you are in this picture is you." It is true that when you actually checked the pictures, you are yourself 27 years ago, I also checked by my father and grandmother that I was given a grudge if I could make a mistake in Mr. Dmitry's picture as well. Mr. Blanc got a message from Mr. Dmitry and two days later he contacted Mr. Dmitry with Skype and discussed it for more than two hours and it got excited.


This episode deployed at the end of 2017 was also talked about in Russia and France, and it seems that it has been introduced in many overseas media, but Blanche was sick of doing the same story repeatedly whenever it is treated on television And that. In order to put a kelly on this story, Mr. Blanche headed to Moscow with her daughter in the New Year of 2018 to give Mr. Dmitry photos and films.

Mr. Blanche who arrived in Moscow 34-year-old Dmitry and his family who greeted parents and children


It is the grandmother of Dmitry who sees the picture of Mr. Dmitry.


The scenery reflected in the photograph compares the landscape of 2018


The school Dmitriy attended 27 years ago


The person sitting on the left in the following image is Jacob's who took a series of photos. Mr. Yakov is a uncle of Mr. Dmitry, who photographed Mr. Dmitry's entrance ceremony 27 years ago and then left the camera on the shelf and forgot it as it was. After that, I completely forgot about the film, I handed over the camera to my friend. By the way, about friends who sold their own camera in a flea market easily, Mr. Yakov said that he is not a friend anymore.


At the Domodedovo Airport where the return flight from Moscow comes out, Dmitry is for Blanche's parent and childFrançoise ArdiIt says that "Comment te dire adieu (teaching goodbye)" was sung. Blanche says, "Thanks to the lost photographs found, a strange friendship was born, both myself and I think that this friendship will last forever."

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