Photo poses a mystery
Here’s another photograph
that is a bit of a puzzle. I’ve seen it used to more than once
to illustrate serious news reports such as this one from the Daily
Express (UK) but its origin is obscure.
It looks very much like a publicity still from a film
or a play about an English public school. It puts me in mind of Ian Hay’s
Housemaster (See
here).
Certainly, the “schoolboy” looks to be pushing thirty if he’s a day (as was
typical with films back in the day).
I managed to track the photograph to the Getty Images
archives where curiously it was
filed under “occupations.” In a different part of
the archive it had this caption, “The Cane Again.
September 1949: A schoolmaster administers a caning to an errant pupil. (Photo
by Denis De Marney/Hulton Archive/Getty Images).”
And apart from that, the photograph’s origin continues
to be a mystery.
Traditional School Discipline
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