Do they exist, or no? The "lost" photos from season 1's "Running"

['80sSitcoms]

Something which would have made a fantastic tangible "extra" for the FOL season 1 & 2 DVD set would be physical copies of all of the photos taken with Molly's camera in season 1's "Running"!

Or even a gallery of them on the DVD set as an "extra", even if not physically reproduced.

But the question is, do they exist? Was there even film in the camera? Since Mrs. Garrett took the photo "Buddies Forever" as a real photo, one could assume there was indeed film in Molly's camera; unless, a crew member took that photo "off camera" and that was used instead of any photo Charlotte would have taken (but I like to think it's the photo Mrs. Garrett actually took).

If there was indeed film in the camera for the whole episode, here are the photos taken during that show:

• 1 of Mr. Bradley with the trophy
• 9 of Blair modeling
• 1 "Buddies Forever"
• 6 of the Cindy vs Sue Ann fight

Sadly, the camera was never clicked in time for "Two Champs", and we don't know if it was actually clicked for "Three Champs" (the video freeze frames for the first end credits before we can see any camera flash).

But from the above inventory, we can assume that, if film was indeed in the camera the whole time, there were at least 16 photos taken during the taping of "Running".

What wonderful "extras" those would make!!

[RetroGuy2000]

I think the photos they showed were taken ahead of time. Those photos in Mrs. G's camera would have had to have been developed, and there's no way they would have halted a production in order to develop some pictures.

All props are gathered ahead of the television production.

Still, some of the photos made should be out there somewhere. They'd make a cool souvenir!

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

I think the photos they showed were taken ahead of time. Those photos in Mrs. G's camera would have had to have been developed, and there's no way they would have halted a production in order to develop some pictures.

All props are gathered ahead of the television production.

OMG where was my mind?? Of course props are all gathered before the taping of a TV show, and of course "Buddies Forever" would had to have been taken ahead of time; because back in the archaic 1980s film had to be developed, hahaha. I was multi-tasking when coming up with this thread so I didn't even think of that.

But yeah, my point question still stands in asking though, if the pics "taken" during the show existed at all---did they even ever get developed?? lol

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

OMG where was my mind?? Of course props are all gathered before the taping of a TV show, and of course "Buddies Forever" would had to have been taken ahead of time; because back in the archaic 1980s film had to be developed, hahaha. I was multi-tasking when coming up with this thread so I didn't even think of that.

It's easy to forget how old-fashioned everything was back then.

But yeah, my point question still stands in asking though, if the pics "taken" during the show existed at all---did they even ever get developed?? lol

Why would they load film in the camera? It's not like they needed the photos for anything. But because episodes are taped twice (and one episode of the first season was taped four times), I doubt they would have even put film in the camera.

There definitely was a photographer on set taking photos: many of the Getty images seem to come from this photographer, who presumably was hired for the Spring 1980 episodes, since there appear to have been very few photos taken during the first four episodes.

['80sSitcoms]

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

Why would they load film in the camera?

Just for authenticity; like, was that camera one that could even make the flash go off without film in it? I don't know! It's so old-fashioned! And they did keep manually doing the "winding" of the film. I want there to have been film in the camera, please do not take away my "Facts" fantasy.

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

Just for authenticity; like, was that camera one that could even make the flash go off without film in it? I don't know! It's so old-fashioned! And they did keep manually doing the "winding" of the film. I want there to have been film in the camera, please do not take away my "Facts" fantasy.

Oh, heh heh, sorry.

I'm sure there was film in the camera, then. Those photos will one day surface on Ebay.

['80sSitcoms]

This make me want to ask a camera expert: 1) Can you "flash" a camera without film, and 2) can you "wind" a camera's "wind" button without film? lol

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

This make me want to ask a camera expert: 1) Can you "flash" a camera without film, and 2) can you "wind" a camera's "wind" button without film? lol

Definitely depends on the camera. In some cameras, the "winding" sound wouldn't sound very authentic without actual film in the camera.

['80sSitcoms]

Oo, I forgot one! Molly also takes a photo of Mr. Bradley proudly beaming with "his" trophy

I've amended my original post to include that.

['80sSitcoms]

Here's the old discussion on this since this subject has come up again.

[Lorimar Television]

Im sure Julie Pie has them in a scrapbook somewhere

[RetroGuy2000]

Originally Posted by Lorimar Television

Im sure Julie Pie has them in a scrapbook somewhere

I don't doubt if they exist, they are indeed in Julie Pie's scrapbook!

...which means they don't exist, because we just saw the photos from Julie Pie's scrapbook, in the Reelz documentary.

[80s Dude]

When Molly was taking pictures of Blair, she positioned herself as classes in photography teach. She took both landscape and portrait shots. She must have had some training somewhere. We seen her years later holding a large lens and camera for a safari. When Tootie became the Eastland photographer after Molly disappeared, she looked like some random person taking a picture.

[80s Dude]

Originally Posted by RetroGuy2000

I don't doubt if they exist, they are indeed in Julie Pie's scrapbook!

...which means they don't exist, because we just saw the photos from Julie Pie's scrapbook, in the Reelz documentary.

But I don't think we saw every picture that Julie Pie had from the show. I imagine she had a lot more than what she showed in the documentary.

[80s Dude]

Originally Posted by '80sSitcoms

This make me want to ask a camera expert: 1) Can you "flash" a camera without film, and 2) can you "wind" a camera's "wind" button without film? lol

Yes, you can. I still have my Pentax K-1000 that I had from that era and you can wind the film without film as long as you have the shutter. Cameras back then didn't have the technology to know whether film was in them or not.