Picture the scene, if you will: This thread has now been on Photrio for 40 years. llford had completely forgotten to give us an answer but a British Court of Inquiry, more powerful than that which investigated a former U.S. president's alleged campaign links to the Kremlin, called senior but contrite Ilford executives to its presence.
As a form of restitution stemming from Court of Inquiry, Ilford has agreed to call all Photrio parties to its headquarters at Mobberley at its expense. As many are from the U.S. and are fascinated by British tradition, Ilford has hired the head "Town Crier" from "The Ancient Order of Town Criers" to read out the announcement.
A few ancient and infirm Photrio members have made their way from the U.S. These were the youngsters of 40 years previously who had taken up film and eventually persuaded Kodak to re-introduce Kodachrome with PE at the helm but against his wishes. Old Kodak employees are often re-employed out of kindness but in PE's case at 105 years old the re-employment was clearly out of cruelty
Accompanying the "Ancient Photrioers" there is load of coffins consisting of most of today's current "protagonists" They are arranged in two sets called the "believers" and "non believers" or the "70s and 250s" as they came to be known .
The Town Crier reads the Ilford Proclamation and there are various sighs of both contentment and dissidence but a general reconciliation takes places as befits the end of 40 years of strife. He then says: "Will all those in the coffins now please indicate their acceptance of the Ilford Proclamation by knocking.
A hush envelopes the crowd. All eyes turn to the coffins, especially two coffins - one from Southern California.and the other from the South Midlands of England .........
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