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Wing D · Department of Suspicious Statistics

Research Findings

Dr. von Bustier's team has analysed every slide aboard the Lab. The results are conclusive. Nobody knows what they conclude.

35slides developed
76.3megapixels used
14 minin the darkroom
23.7saverage developing time
28.8average model age
0vital sign readings

Confirmed Gus sightings: 0 · Denied by Gus: 0

Where Our Models Hail From

35 models photographed, from 25 of the Ladies' Auxiliary's state chapters · tap a state to see them

fewermore models

The Expedition Map

Where the staff have been on assignment →
Afghanistan Albania Algeria Angola Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bangladesh Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herz. Botswana Brazil Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Central African Rep. Chad Chile China Colombia Congo Costa Rica Croatia Cuba Cyprus Czechia Côte d'Ivoire Dem. Rep. Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominican Rep. Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Eq. Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Is. Fiji Finland Fr. S. Antarctic Lands France Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Greece Greenland Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kosovo Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Mali Mauritania Mexico Moldova Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Mozambique Myanmar N. Cyprus Namibia Nepal Netherlands New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Norway Oman Pakistan Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Romania Russia Rwanda S. Sudan Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Sierra Leone Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Is. Somalia Somaliland South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America: 1 expedition(s) Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam W. Sahara Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe eSwatini Hallowe'en Hop 1962 Hallowe'en Hop 1962

Fastest Hands in the Lab

pixels placed per second on the Mk. II tensor arms

Behind six inches of leaded glass in the Placement Room, the nurses work the tensor placement arms: every pixel is sent up from its Supply Room bin by pneumatic tube, picked up with micro-tweezers and set into the slide, one at a time. Here's who has the quickest hands.

  1. 1 Nurse Dolores PixleyArm TPA-57-01 · 4 slides · personal best 105,269/s on FP-000798 104,137 px/s
  2. 2 Orderly GusArm TPA-57-06 · 10 slides · personal best 105,269/s on FP-000729 99,049 px/s
  3. 3 Nurse Bettie VoltzArm TPA-57-02 · 3 slides · personal best 103,765/s on FP-000807 95,295 px/s
  4. 4 Dr. Helga von BustierArm TPA-57-04 · 7 slides · personal best 105,269/s on FP-000827 86,032 px/s
  5. 5 Nurse Marguerite LaRouxArm TPA-57-03 · 6 slides · personal best 104,763/s on FP-000775 85,790 px/s
  6. 6 Nurse Trixie MoonbeamArm TPA-57-05 · 5 slides · personal best 104,763/s on FP-000883 85,454 px/s
98pixels dropped under the table · Orderly Gus is sweeping them up

The Ladies' Auxiliary

the Membership Register →

Every model on file is a volunteer from the Ladies' Auxiliary: she took the Course, signed Form 18-B and wears the pin.

The Supply Room Report

inventory taken across 35 slides

Every pixel in every slide is drawn from the Supply Room: 16,777,216 labelled bins, one for every color, shelved in 4,096 aisles of similar shades. Stock arrives four ways: freshly lab-grown in culture medium, reclaimed from recycled pictures (the worn-out blacks and whites), filtered out of the air (the greys: smog, the dust of forty star systems and the occasional passing nebula), and melted down from the plastic nobody on Earth will take: bottle caps, cling film, those little clamshell boxes. That's where our brightest colors come from.

77,037bins opened per slide, on average
157,473bins opened by the busiest slide, FP-000883
1,497of 4,096 aisles visited
2,599aisles never visited (still shrink-wrapped)

Where the pixels came from

Most-requested aisles always running low

Aisle 0-0-0Midnight black21.4% of all pixels
Aisle 2-1-1Shadow brown1.6% of all pixels
Aisle 3-3-3Taupe0.8% of all pixels
Aisle D-D-DDust grey0.8% of all pixels
Aisle 2-1-2Night shade0.7% of all pixels
Aisle 4-3-2Cocoa brown0.6% of all pixels
Aisle 3-1-0Deep orange0.6% of all pixels
Aisle E-D-CFlesh tone, light0.5% of all pixels
Aisle 8-6-5Flesh tone, medium0.4% of all pixels
Aisle F-F-FBleach white0.4% of all pixels
Aisle 6-6-6Smog grey0.4% of all pixels
Aisle D-D-CPale yellow0.4% of all pixels

Never opened still sealed from the factory

Aisle 0-0-FBottle-cap blueuntouched
Aisle 0-C-FKiddie-pool tealuntouched
Aisle 0-F-0Soda-bottle greenuntouched
Aisle 4-0-FGlow-stick purpleuntouched
Aisle D-0-FDrinking-straw pinkuntouched
Aisle E-F-0Pool-toy yellowuntouched
Aisle F-0-2Grocery-bag reduntouched
Aisle F-4-0Traffic-cone orangeuntouched
Aisle E-A-1Flesh tone, mediumuntouched
Aisle 2-2-DBlueuntouched
Aisle 2-B-DTealuntouched
Aisle 2-D-2Greenuntouched

Developed by month

When each slide came out of the tank, by month.

Oct 2026 35 slides

Peak: 35

Home state

  1. Maryland 3
  2. Wyoming 3
  3. Arkansas 2
  4. California 2
  5. Colorado 2
  6. New Hampshire 2
  7. Pennsylvania 2
  8. South Dakota 2
  9. Everything else (17 more) 17

Age

  1. 32 5
  2. 28 4
  3. 30 4
  4. 26 3
  5. 31 3
  6. 38 3
  7. 19 2
  8. 20 2
  9. Everything else (7 more) 9

Costume

  1. a skeleton-print leotard peeled down to her waist 3
  2. loose mummy bandages trailing from one ankle 3
  3. a crown of plastic spiders and cobweb lace 2
  4. a fortune teller's headscarf and hoop earrings 2
  5. a genie's gauzy veil and jingling bangles 2
  6. a paper nurse's cap with a red cross 2
  7. a ringmaster's top hat and a riding crop 2
  8. a tall pilgrim hat with a buckle 2
  9. Everything else (17 more) 17

Event

  1. Hallowe'en Hop 1962 35

Event Town

  1. Salem, Massachusetts 35

Fair Spots

  1. on the back of a hayride wagon 1

Hair

  1. soft shoulder-length curls brushed out into waves 4
  2. a gamine pixie crop 3
  3. a short bouncy bob with blunt bangs 3
  4. a shoulder-length flip turned up at the ends 3
  5. a sleek French twist 3
  6. long loose waves pinned back on one side 3
  7. a sculpted pompadour with pin curls at the back 2
  8. a teased beehive with loose tendrils 2
  9. Everything else (10 more) 12

Hair color

  1. deep auburn 4
  2. burgundy-rinsed brunette 3
  3. cinnamon red 3
  4. raven black 3
  5. silver-blonde 3
  6. golden blonde 2
  7. mahogany brown 2
  8. mousy brown 2
  9. Everything else (11 more) 13

Home Town

  1. Frederick, Maryland 2
  2. Aberdeen, South Dakota 1
  3. Bemidji, Minnesota 1
  4. Burlington, Iowa 1
  5. Casper, Wyoming 1
  6. Concord, New Hampshire 1
  7. Deadwood, South Dakota 1
  8. Eau Claire, Wisconsin 1
  9. Everything else (26 more) 26

Hop Location

  1. on a folding chair along the wall of the dance floor 3
  2. at the costume parade line-up by the stage 2
  3. beside a scarecrow propped in a folding chair 2
  4. beside the costume contest judging table 2
  5. in front of the bandstand while the skeleton band plays 2
  6. in the kitchen doorway beside trays of caramel apples 2
  7. in the parking lot beside a chrome-bumpered sedan 2
  8. next to the record player and a stack of 45s 2
  9. Everything else (17 more) 18

Lighting

  1. candlelight from carved pumpkins 4
  2. car headlights sweeping across her 4
  3. open shade, soft even light 4
  4. late-afternoon golden sunlight 3
  5. spotlight from the grandstand 3
  6. backlit by the setting sun, glowing rim light in her hair 2
  7. colored light from the Ferris wheel bulbs 2
  8. colorful carnival lights, glowing bokeh behind her 2
  9. Everything else (9 more) 11

Makeup

  1. glittering eyeshadow and a bright fuchsia lip 4
  2. bronzed cheeks from a summer outdoors and a tawny lip 3
  3. glossy lips and fluttery false lashes 3
  4. natural sun-kissed freckles and a nude lip 3
  5. a hint of mascara and chapstick shine 2
  6. barely-there makeup and glossy lips 2
  7. frosted pink lips and pale blue eyeshadow 2
  8. heavy false lashes and a pale pink lip 2
  9. Everything else (10 more) 14

Pose

  1. leaning on the counter of a game booth 4
  2. looking back over her shoulder mid-stride 4
  3. adjusting a stocking 2
  4. bending to pick up a dropped glove 2
  5. hands clasped behind her head 2
  6. leaning forward with her hands on her knees 2
  7. lying on her stomach, chin in her hands, feet kicked up 2
  8. one hand on her hip, the other waving 2
  9. Everything else (13 more) 15

Shot Style

  1. fashion catalog test shot 4
  2. drugstore-developed snapshot 3
  3. hometown newspaper society-page photo 3
  4. contact-sheet frame from a photo shoot 2
  5. drugstore-developed snapshot from a shoebox of old prints 2
  6. glamour studio portrait 2
  7. magazine cover try-out photograph 2
  8. nightclub souvenir photograph taken by the camera girl 2
  9. Everything else (14 more) 15

Time Of Day

  1. at sunrise 1

Weather

  1. in a light morning fog 5
  2. on a crisp autumn day with falling leaves 4
  3. on an overcast day with soft grey light 4
  4. in a light drizzle 3
  5. on a hot, humid day 3
  6. during the first snowfall 2
  7. on a blustery day with leaves swirling 2
  8. on a clear sunny day 2
  9. Everything else (6 more) 10

Slides per photographer

  1. Orderly Gus 10
  2. Dr. Helga von Bustier 7
  3. Nurse Marguerite LaRoux 6
  4. Nurse Trixie Moonbeam 5
  5. Nurse Dolores Pixley 4
  6. Nurse Bettie Voltz 3

Slide shape

  1. Portrait 18
  2. Landscape 17

Lens (sampler / schedule)

  1. Euler / Beta 35

Developing time per slide

Seconds in the tank, per slide.

  1. 20–25s 28
  2. 25–30s 4
  3. 40–45s 1
  4. 45–50s 2