Grass caught in a fence on Dartmoor. We parked behind the Plume of Feathers pub in Princetown and walked towards South Hessary Tor. It was bitterly cold, Kayla carrying her heavy Bolex. I filmed with the weighty Canon 1014, using its lap-dissolve facility. The dried grass looked beautiful in the wind – it’s molinia and a real nuisance on the moorland.
What year was this? I’ve no idea. Maybe there is metadata with the film strip – not date and time, but implied metadata such as the film type. Perhaps shots before or after on the roll would give a clue. The lap-dissolves on the the grass tells me that it was filmed with the 1014 because its predecessor, in the sense that I traded one camera for the other, a Canon 814 didn’t have that facility. Now when did I buy the camera? Lees Cameras in London, and I remember using the 1014 at Beaumont Avenue before we moved out in 1994. So it could be any time after 1989…