/internal/media/dispatcher/15934/fullImage of a camera misfire11/22/196315/16 x 1 7/16 in. (2.4 x 3.6 cm)FilmDallas Times Herald Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza1989.100.0042.00040Original 35mm black and white negative taken by an unidentified Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image shows an underexposed image. Details of the image are impossible to discern.
The negative is on Kodak Tri-X Pan Film. This image is labeled #7 on section 1 of negative strip 42.Photographs636453.60000000002.40000000004072Negative (b&w)Original 35mm black and white negative taken by an unidentified Dallas Times Herald staff photographer. The image is underexposed; shadowy figures are visible but details are impossible to discern.
Photographers would sometimes snap a photo of nothing in particular just to make sure that the film was advancing through the camera properly. It is not known whether this misfire was deliberate or accidental.
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