This was a bit of fun – it’s supposed to be an illustration of all the things that used to go wrong when you took a photo on film – you know, before the digital era.
In those days it cost good money if your shot went awry. Loading the film wrongly, not winding on between shots so you got double exposures, putting your thumb over the lens…these things were all disasters. Nowadays we just take ten shots of the same thing.
Myfanwy Tristram 