8mm Forum: Help, Rusty Red Moldy Film!!!

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Posted by Joanna Crowder (Member # 6130) on October 20, 2017, 08:23 AM:

Help! I have bought a lot of good equipment to digitize my families 8mm and super 8mm film. I also bought a couple of random 8mm films on Ebay to experiment with. The film I bought was clean and in good shape and came out very well. My family film went through a house fire and apparently got wet. All of it has the expected mold and I have done a fare job of cleaning it, however there is a red stain (most notably on the leaders and darkest near the holes) that I can not get off. Anyone, can you help me?

Posted by Janice Glesser (Member # 2758) on October 20, 2017, 10:49 AM:

If the stain has merged into the emulsion there is probably not much you can do without also removing the emulsion. However... once you have the film captured to digital, there's a lot of restoration you can do in post with software

Posted by Joanna Crowder (Member # 6130) on October 20, 2017, 10:59 AM:

Thanks Janice, I didn't think of that. What software do you suggest might be good?

Posted by Clinton Hunt (Member # 2072) on October 20, 2017, 10:42 PM:

It's the same when the film has developed "orange spots" as I tried cleaning with Filmguard and it made no difference.

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