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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 4337961, member: 56"]The backdrop is strange. The foreground is an indoor scene - carpets, tables, chairs - yet the background is open sky (from the photo, stormy open sky). That combined with the almost photographic quality of the people, possibly due to the intense and even lighting of the foreground, are what make it odd.</p><p><br /></p><p>Family movies in period costume were being made post war (Life with Father -1947, Cheaper by the dozen - 1950). That might be the period on which to concentrate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 4337961, member: 56"]The backdrop is strange. The foreground is an indoor scene - carpets, tables, chairs - yet the background is open sky (from the photo, stormy open sky). That combined with the almost photographic quality of the people, possibly due to the intense and even lighting of the foreground, are what make it odd. Family movies in period costume were being made post war (Life with Father -1947, Cheaper by the dozen - 1950). That might be the period on which to concentrate.[/QUOTE]
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