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Think of these people:


flightcaptain Albert

Pit

Jane with two hair colours

a Burt Reynolds look-alike

a Apugger

a talking parrot



What do they make of?
 
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Totally off.


It is a german matter. And the choice of this forum is a hint to.
 
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What is bindi?

Think of a teaching aid instead.
 

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bindi is the red dot on Hindu women and priests. Wrong red dot it seems. The only teaching aid I remember is a dunce hat.
 

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flight captain Albert = Albert Ball, the WWI flying ace?
 
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The cast officially includes an enlarger. I have even more problems in counting it in by "people" than this talking parrot.
 
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In Germany those years (and seemingly today too) Koko was a name typically given to Parrots.
Though Jane was not not common if used at for a girl. One of those enigmas of that cast.
 
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OK, I shall unravel that mystery:



In the 70s Leitz published a guide "Self-Enlarging Made Easy" in German.

The weird thing though was that it was not in text-book style but made up as cartoon. With all that cast I listed above, with the then new Focomat V35 being central. Unique. And Leitz then was the last company I expected such.

I got it in hand when I used a brand new Focomat V35 back then. I thought it had been delivered with the enlarger. May be. But it has a protective charge imprint, thus must have been available loose.

All those years from memory I thought it was the enlarger manual in cartoon form. But meanwhile I got a sample in hand again and as said it is an enlarging (and paper processing) guide.

The idea and text is by Günter Spitzing, photo all-rounder and renown photo-author back then. The graphics are by a lesser known graphic artist.

Weird.

Even more as Jane as acting person got yello-blond hair. But in the photo said to show her she is brunette. A matter of the author, who brought in all photos to be inserted into the graphics not communicating withb the graphic artist.
Not a good idea in a guide about photography.

And that unnerving talking parrot tops it all.



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