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David Hardy
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Johnshaven Village , Montrose, Scotland
Registered: Jan 2015

posted November 21, 2017 07:09 AM

I just ran some films last night that were originally filmed in ye good olde Black & White.

Unfortunately they have been printed on Colour film stock.
The films made interesting viewing as the black and whites
and shades of grey are now tinted reddish browns, greens , blues and yellows in places.

Is anyone else suffering from these problems ?

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Paul Adsett
Film God

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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted November 21, 2017 10:01 AM

H David,
I have a couple of Derann black and white 200ft shorts that were printed on color stock. The plus side of this process is the extra resolution and contrast that color stock provides. The down side is color tinting and potential fade. It is extremely difficult to get true black and white on color stock. I have a superb print of The Train Driver which is about as close to black and white as you could hope to get. Another print I have is a 200 footer about Ealing Studios, which was perfectly black and white when I purchased it about 15 years ago, but has now faded to a slight sepia tint.

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Brian Fretwell
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From: London, UK
Registered: Jun 2014

posted November 21, 2017 10:14 AM

Thankfully most Derann B&W on colour stock were after low fade came in. Unfortunately not much B&W stock was available after that so some films did even have colour casts on LPP and Agfa. I believe there were limited prints of "The Elephant Man" as it caused many spoiled prints (the two spools I have were White Box Specials suffering from this).

Later Derann did manage to put in a large enough order for Agfa to perforate a run of B&W film 1,000,000 feet I seem to remember.

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