Heh - I've seen the Col. Crichton icons - love that one with the Brig and Crichton looking over his shoulder.
The guy on the left I assume to be Douglas - I probably wrote him as a bit younger than the guy in the photo, actually, but the spurious fluff on the website claimed he lived til 1957, so he can't have been too old in 1918. He reminds me of Ray Stubbs, who used to present Soccer Saturday on BBC1, but with an enormous moustache...
But yeah, the idea that people in the late 19th, early 20th century automatically adopted this terrified "it's going to steal my soul!" sort of attitude when confronted with a camera, any camera, is a bit ridiculous, really. As you say, it comes from seeing those painfully posed studio photos and assuming those were the only sort of photo being taken in those days.
And of course, it begs the question who was taking it? The obvious candidate would be Jack, but my timeline has him off dogfighting with the Red Baron and pals at the time that was supposedly taken...
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The guy on the left I assume to be Douglas - I probably wrote him as a bit younger than the guy in the photo, actually, but the spurious fluff on the website claimed he lived til 1957, so he can't have been too old in 1918. He reminds me of Ray Stubbs, who used to present Soccer Saturday on BBC1, but with an enormous moustache...
But yeah, the idea that people in the late 19th, early 20th century automatically adopted this terrified "it's going to steal my soul!" sort of attitude when confronted with a camera, any camera, is a bit ridiculous, really. As you say, it comes from seeing those painfully posed studio photos and assuming those were the only sort of photo being taken in those days.
And of course, it begs the question who was taking it? The obvious candidate would be Jack, but my timeline has him off dogfighting with the Red Baron and pals at the time that was supposedly taken...
hmm...