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Posted by Richardson Leao (Member # 1138) on August 27, 2019, 12:24 AM:

The film was expired in 1979 and stored in unknown conditions. These are the results of procesding it in room temp

Bw paper de + reexposure + c41 Chen
https://youtu.be/QZ6HASEuLUs

Posted by Melvin England (Member # 5270) on August 27, 2019, 05:24 AM:

Hello. Welcome to the forum.

At least your images are there and you have a movie tribute to the people who have taken part. I assume that the footage was taken in 1979 and this was not a cartridge that expired in '79 but was only filmed recently? There did appear to be far more scratching on the film than should have been. Was this carelessness during the processing, or because of the age of the film?
Perhaps it would now be a good idea to put your film through some digital colouring process to increase the colour that is already there. I am no expert on this, so maybe fellow members could offer advice?

Well done for creating images from such old film.

Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on August 27, 2019, 06:38 PM:

Melvin having seen the footage, they are wearing today's dress. And also see the cars on the backgroud. At 1:24 there is someone taking picture with a mobile phone. So it have been filmed recently. The scratch or dirt may have come from the process.

cheers

Posted by Nantawat Kittiwarakul (Member # 6050) on August 27, 2019, 08:13 PM:

Not bad for a film stock expired 40 years ago. [Big Grin]

That dust/dirt/scratch seems like leftover back coating to me. Don't know if that could be totally removed?

BTW is that scanned by those infamous Wolverine scanner? [Wink]

Rescan it with something more decent, and it will be very possible to pull the color balance back!

Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on August 28, 2019, 02:20 AM:

I agree about the black marks looking like the back coating on the film.

Posted by Melvin England (Member # 5270) on August 28, 2019, 03:38 AM:

Well spotted Winbert.

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