two 3 minutes 1944 8mm films developed just lately

[Diapositivo]

An interesting finding. 6 minutes of 8mm amateur film shot in northern Italy during WWII by a German doctor, and left in the freezer since, were developed and shown to the public.
Not particularly exceptional as content - just normal amateur film with people smiling and ordinary everyday scenes - but it is very interesting that they have emerged after so many years, and have been developed and they are useable.

http://bologna.repubblica.it/cronac...lia-179679855/?ref=RHPPBT-BH-I0-C4-P3-S1.4-T1

As usual in these cases, the old same flow of rethoric was vented: the eye of the occupier, the "smiling children in the massacred country" and so on. People seem just not to understand that making a 8mm film is a normal activity and there is not a propaganda reason behind it (certainly not for a film in 8mm).

 

[twelvetone12]

I find it interesting that the lab forgot them on the bottom of a refrigerator for 70 (!) years. I would love to hear more of the story behind this.

 

[Born2Late]

I'd like to find out what kind of refrigerator lasted for 70 years!

 

[AgX]

Well, in that article both terms are stated, "frozen" and "refrigerated". I wonder who in 1944 or 1945 would have put a film in refridgeration. Such was not usual. Not even at a commercial lab.
As the OP already hinted at, the article is questionable it its commenting, likely it is so in its stating too.