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Steve Palincsar
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By 1925 there were not only cameras using sheet film holders, there was the Leica using 35mm film. The technology for developing and printing black and white photographs today is virtually unchanged from what it was back then, so overnight should have been no problem at all. 1 hr from start of development to drying

Which obviously they do, since they've been minding the store the whole time he's been missing in Germany.