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Kenneth Horan
Film Handler

Posts: 51
From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted December 18, 2005 03:19 PM

I have a 16mm Cinecolor print of a 1951 release with two peculiarities. One is that it has a gray soundtrack and not the usual Cinecolor green or cyan track. The other is that the date code of the Kodak duplitized stock that it is printed on is two dots, 1959. Cinecolor was suppose to have gone out of business in 1954. So who made this print? Was a third party still making Cinecolor prints using Cinecolor's method on duplitized stock? Duplitized stock has an emulsion layer on each side of the base. And why is the soundtrack gray and not cyan?

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Jan Bister
Darth 8mm

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From: Ohio, USA
Registered: Jan 2005

posted December 18, 2005 04:25 PM

That's tough. [Eek!]

Pardon my ignorance, but are you sure this is in Cinecolor... maybe it's a dupe made in regular Kodak LPP color... no, wait, did Kodak ever make duplitized stock like this? ... I'm confusing myself now. Sorry. [Big Grin]

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Kevin Faulkner
Film God

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From: Essex UK
Registered: Jun 2003

posted December 18, 2005 05:00 PM

Is it possible that it was copied on to IB Tech? That would account for the silver sound track.

Kev.

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Steven Sigel
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Massachusetts
Registered: Jun 2003

posted December 18, 2005 05:44 PM

Kevin --

That's definitely not IB Tech...

Kodachrome, Ektachrome and Anscochrome stock had gray soundtracks, not just IB Tech.

Ken posted this on the other forum, and did the Cinecolor scratch test, so it's really cinecolor...

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