Brian R  Pritchard - Motion Picture and Film Archive Consultant

British Motion Picture Laboratories

Cleaning Liquids for Motion Picture Film

CLEANING LIQUIDS FOR MOTION PICTURE FILM This article was published by the Society of Motion Picture Engineers in August 1927.   The authors were from the Research Laboratory, Eastman Kodak Company . It should be noted that most of the solvents mentioned in this...

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Kinemacolor Miscellany

KINEMACOLOR Miscellany Beginnings of Kinemacolor G Albert Smith wrote to Charles Urban proposing that they work together on March 21st 1904;     This is what he said: Letter from G Albert Smith F.R.A.S, Laboratory Lodge, Green Road, Southwick, Brighton.  March 21st...

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Recreating Kinemacolor on the Screen

Re-creating Kinemacolor on the screen by David Cleveland and Brian Pritchard   The idea   The idea of re-creating Kinemacolor came out of some experiments attempting to colour a new black and white print section of Claude Friese-Greene’s New Natural Colour Process of...

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How Films Were Made and Shown Book

How Films Were Made and Shown by David Cleveland and Brian Pritchard. 453 pages, over 900 illustrations Soft cover digital reprints are available. The price has just been reduced ORDER HERE: www.localeastanglianbooks.com   The cost is £50 including postage and packing...

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Datasheets

FILM STOCK DATA SHEETS   I am happy to supply copies of datas heets but please don't ask for all of them, it is time consuming and I don’t charge for the service.   I have copies of the following datasheets: Manufacturer Film Type Stock Identification Date Notes Agfa...

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Quality in Duplication

gamma = 1.5 Print from camera neg gamma = 3.8 Print from neg made from print gamma= 5.8 Print made from print from neg from print Quality in Motion Picture Duplication Brian Pritchard   Introduction Motion picture films are duplicated to prevent the camera master...

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