I love the old GM pictures. There must have been hundreds of GM photographers all over the place... including me for a while.
But the good old days are gone. Every department seems to have a digital camera and the last time I saw a real photographer here, he was taking portraits for the online person identifier known as the "People Finder"
There is a photo session that I participated in that still gives me nightmares
The order said set up the camera in the DYNO lab, let the tech rev the engine till the exhaust system gets cherry red, click, repeat.
After the session ended, the tech discussed how the engines occasionaly blew up and the risks I had taken to take a picture or two
I think I have a pic, I will look for it.
Another bad old day example happened often before the creation of the GM Heritage Center. I was told to empty a cabinet and place the cabinet in the hall with a SCRAP sign on it. The cabinet was filled with 35 mm slides of current, future and past model cars. I dumped all the slides because there was no process to archive photographic material at the time.
sigh
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