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Maurice Leakey
Film God

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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted July 17, 2018 04:21 AM

If you had a film on Eastman LPP would you stick a yellow Technicolor label to the can?
No? Nor would I.
I've just received a film which was originally Technicolor on 35mm and the 16mm copy I received had a British Technicolor label.
Yes. The colour was excellent, but no Technicolor edge markings. Further examination revealed the print was on Eastman LPP.
Removed the label now!

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Maurice

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Bill Brandenstein
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: California
Registered: Aug 2007

posted July 17, 2018 04:30 PM

Agreed, because the distinctive image characteristics of Technicolor are lost if the destination negative and print are composite.

But at least it was beautiful LPP and not faded!

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Brian Fretwell
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: London, UK
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posted July 20, 2018 02:44 AM

Perhaps it was LPP processed by the British Technicolor lab after they gave up IB printing.

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Steven Sigel
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Massachusetts
Registered: Jun 2003

posted August 07, 2018 12:16 PM

As Brian suggested - Technicolor labs kept printing film long after they stopped printing in IB - so you may even find red prints with labels that say "Technicolor" on the can or leader. Doesn't mean anything.

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Adrian Winchester
Film God

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From: Croydon, London, UK
Registered: Aug 2004

posted August 09, 2018 02:34 PM

I wrongly assumed that in view of Technicolor's long and distinguished history, even non-IB prints would be their own stock. I have one or two non-IBs from around the late 1970s that are of superb quality, so I must check the markings. If their labs made use of LPP and other stocks, I'd say it was fair enough to use their labels on the cans as other labs would also have done this, but I appreciate that this could create the impression that the film is IB.

What's worse are the cases I've heard of when a 16mm print has been wrongly described as "Tecniciolor" because the seller has seen the logo on the credits, although I suppose it's sometimes a genuine mistake!

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Adrian Winchester

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