Brian R  Pritchard - Motion Picture and Film Archive Consultant

British Motion Picture Laboratories

Motion Pictures in Colour

Motion Pictures in Colour Some information on early colour motion picture systems   'MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY' by Carl Louis Gregory F.R.P.S. - Edited by Herbert McKay, A.R.P.S. - published by Falk Publishing Co Inc 1927 Chapter XXIV - Colored, Stereoscopic and...

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Manufacture of Motion Picture Film

MANUFACTURE OF MOTION PICTURE FILM. By A. E. AMOR, F.R.P.S . Read to the British Kinematograph Society on April 4th, 1938 FILM SUPPORT MANUFACTURE. Standard motion picture films are chiefly made of cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate being used for the production of...

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Lubrication of Motion Picture Film

 The Lubrication of Motion Picture Film   THE LUBRICATION OF MOTION PICTURE FILM BY J. I. CRABTREE and C. E. IVES [ 1] Reprinted from TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF MOTION PICTURE ENGINEERS Vol. XI, Number 31, 1927, pp. 522-541     WHEN freshly developed or so-called...

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Bell and Howell Model C

   Bell & Howell Lamp House   The Bell and Howell Additive Lamp house can be considered one of the major steps forward during the for colour printing.  Prior to its introduction in 1961 colour correction was usually carried out by the use of colour filters. Debrie...

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16mm Windings

16mm Windings 2023 was the 100th Anniversery of the introduction of 16mm.     Article by Brian Pritchard 'The 100th Anniversary of 16mm Film. 'Journal of Film Preservation No 109 November 2023. 16mm was invented at the time when 35mm was NITRATE and of course highly...

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Gaumontcolor

 Gaumontcolor This is  a three-colour system invented in France. OUTLINE OF A PROJECTION — The lamp sends  white light through the three filters that present themselves each in front of its objective. Every screen  passes only the rays that correspond to its colour....

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