Brian R  Pritchard - Motion Picture and Film Archive Consultant

British Motion Picture Laboratories

FILM STOCK DATE CODES

Film Stock Date Codes KODAK   Kodak/Eastman Kodak have put date codes on their motion picture films since 1916. Kodak date codes are available HERE . For 8mm products different codes were used . Kodak 8mm Date Codes   The UK also identified the quarter and in the USA...

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Fading of Motion Picture Film

Colour Dye Fading All dyes are fugitive to some extent; they dark fade and light fade. Different dyes have different fade characteristics. With Eastman Colour Print film it is usually the cyan layer that fades first followed by the yellow dye with the magenta dye...

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Duplication in French

La sauvvegarde des films N&B Translated by RICHARD BILLEAUD     Dans le cadre du travail des archives, l'établissement d'éléments intermédiaires de tirage permet : - de sauvegarder des films sur support nitrate en les recopiant sur support safety - ou de produire...

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DUFAYCOLOR

Louis Dufay produced photographic plates with a micro-colour-screen between 1910 and 1917.  They were known as the Dufay ‘Dioptrechrome Plate’.  From 1925 a large number of patents were granted for various aspects of the Spicer-Dufay Process.

The films have the resea…

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My CV

MY CV  1962 - 1971  - Kodak Ltd   Research Laboratory, Spectrophotometry, X-Ray Fluorescence, Modulation Transfer Function Measurements, Colour Print and Processing. Motion Picture Sales Division, Customer Complaints, Technical Advice. 1971 - 1981 - Filmatic...

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British Labs

British Labs  Please note I have included companies who have editorial mentions or advertisements that say they are doing printing, processing, tinting or toning themselves. As an example The Bioscope for Jan 1 1914 has an advert for Lama Film Producing Co. Derby...

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