{"id":12032,"date":"2022-06-13T07:50:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T06:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/?p=12032"},"modified":"2022-06-13T07:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T06:50:13","slug":"c-s-forester-digitising-negatives-and-i-was-cicero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tikit.net\/panfans\/2022\/06\/13\/c-s-forester-digitising-negatives-and-i-was-cicero\/","title":{"rendered":"C. S. Forester, Digitising Negatives and ‘I Was Cicero’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I recently featured several ‘Hornblower’<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a> titles by C. S. Forester so I thought I’d put a few more of the later ones on a page HERE<\/span><\/strong><\/a>. I’m not sure why PAN felt the need to change the covers so often but I’m happy as it makes the search for them more interesting.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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After struggling to see what was on the several hundred negatives Kathy Ford kindly gave me by holding them up to the light I bit the bullet and bought a negative\/slide digitiser. It was not the cheapest of items but as the negatives were in 120 format with sizes from 6×6 to 6×9 there wasn’t too much choice. It will also mean it will be a lot easier to digitize all the hundreds of 35mm slides we took in the 70’s when you had a family get together in the dark to subject them to what seemed like a never end show. The negative shown is of Kitty Peffer in a pose but for what cover? She is facing forward but on the cover backwards but same dress, gun and stance. Click on the photo for the answer.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n

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Funnily enough the second strip of negatives I picked up to use with the digitiser proved to be of a cover of a book I already had but not identified previously from the negative. Although not PAN it still gets a place in the collection!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n