Tools for Identifying Motion Picture Film These are PDF files with hyperlinks to give you some clues to identify 35mm Motion Picture Film, 35mm Motion Picture Sound Tracks and 16mm Motion Picture Film They are still works in progress and will be updated when...
British Motion Picture Laboratories
Identifying Polyester film Base
Identifying Polyester Film Base If it is necessary to identify polyester film base from other bases then apart from trying to tear the film which cannot be seen as good archival practise! The usual method is rather hit and miss and that is checking to see if when the...
Technirama
Technirama Samples of Technirama : The original 8 perforation neg and a selection of different format prints. Introduced by Technicolor in 1957 the negative travelled horizontally through the camera using an anamorphic lens. The picture was squeezed by a factor of...
Tinting and Toning of Eastman Positive Motion Picture Film 4th Edition 1927
Tinting and Toning of Eastman Positive Motion Picture Film PRICE £2.50 Fourth Edition-Revised Research Laboratory Eastman Kodak Company Rochester N.Y. 1927 PREFACE This is the fourth edition of this book, each of which has been revised to bring the recommended...
LAD and Lady Tests
LAD and Lady Charts There are two important factors involved in the production of grading and release printing. Firstly the grader and the Control Department have to be confident that if a grader decides a certain scene requires, for example, Light 24 (Red=24,...
Unusual Colour Film Sensitivities
Unusual Colour Film Sensitivities There have been a number colour films made where the colour image produced on the film does not follow the usual correlation of the colour of the exposing light to the dyes produced. For the fairly obvious reason that the whole...
