Spellbound - recreate red frames?

[John Armer]

I was watching my Super 8 print of Hitchcock's Spellbound last night for the first time in a few years and had forgotten the intricacies of the plot which felt like I was watching it for the first time again - a good thing for once!

I really enjoyed the film and read up on it afterwards. I was surprised to discover that there were just two red frames in the original theatrical prints at the end of the film when a gun is fired. It got me thinking - is this something I could recreate with my print, which being on black and white stock, does not have these two frames in colour? I appreciate it's not something us collectors want to do very often - voluntarily make our films turn red - but if it worked, it could be authentic to the film. Or is this a big no-no?

I might experiment on a piece of scrap film with a red Sharpie to try and put me off the idea.

[Steve Lee]

Hi John,
There is an acrylic varnish that is available for painting onto glass, which is transparent and also water base.
Perhaps maybe nail varnish would work?


It's a bit like the scene in Schindler's list, with the girl in the red dress. The majority of the film was on B/W stock apart from the reel that contain this scene. When you held the print up to the light, you could see instantly were this scene was, as the colour stock looked so different.
I know in the case of Spellbound, this must have been hand tinted.

Steve

[Ed Gordon]

Any dye (in the US "Rit" is one popular brand) would probably work. Back in the day, there was a black dye that was sold that was used to create fade-in/fade-outs on film by dipping the film in the dye to create a slow fade effect. It worked fine on Kodachrome film.

[Joerg Polzfusz]

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