Cyanide and almonds (Kind hearts and Coronets)

Alex Nanson (alec@norlex.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 04 Feb 1998 21:28:03 +0000

In message <34D76F73.2530@voyager.net>, Donald Cardwell
<cardwell@voyager.net> writes
>What can we suppose caused Alec Guiness, as the enthusiatic amateur
>photographer, to be blown up in Kind Hearts and Coronets ?
>
>Something suitable for Victorian gentry ...
>
>Don

How about Ether? It was I believe,used as a solvent in the wet collodian
process.

A little Ether vapour in the darkroom atmosphere, and a struck match
(to light the darkroom safe light. Mr Edison's new invention not having
reached the UK at that time, presumably) would produce a most
satisfactory explosion!

Alex.

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Alex Nanson
alec@norlex.demon.co.uk
Gloucester. UK