[rollei_list] Re: Old film

Richard,

One of my summer jobs in NYC was in a Lab, processing
Anscochrome and enlarging Ansco Printon prints.  The
Anscochrome transparencies were not too bad, but Printon
was baaaad!

My last summer job was at Kurshan & Lang processing
commercial Ektachrome sheet film and working on Dye
Transfer prints for Lenny Zoref.  I even tried Flexichrome,
or was it called Crawfordcolor?  Remember those?

Jerry

Richard Knoppow wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jerry Lehrer" <jerryleh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 12:40 PM
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Old film
>
> > Richard,
> >
> > Was that last Agfacolor any relation to Anscochrome?  I
> > used
> > it a lot in the late 40's and the 50's.  The ones I have
> > still have
> > excellent color.  The Ektachromes have really
> > deteriorated, but
> > the Kodachromes are still perfect.
> >
> > Jerry
>
>   It is. However Anscochrome and Anscocolor (negative
> material) were advanced over the earlier materials.
> Unfortunately, the Ansco materials used by the motion
> picture industry c.1950 proved to be very unstable. I have
> seen a lot of German war footage in color. It must have been
> Agfacolor or Agfachrome. It looks pretty good on TV but is
> grainy compared to Kodachrome.
>   BTW, I remember seeing _Bwana Devil_, a 3-D movie, when it
> was first released. One thing I noticed at the time but
> didn't know the reason for was the washed out looking color.
> This is just what Anscocolor looked like. I was used to
> seeing Technicolor with its high contrast and saturation.
> The Ansco stuff was sure weak tea in comparison. Ansco came
> out with their films about a year before Kodak announced
> Eastman Color, the motion picture version of Ektacolor. It
> was better but also turned out to be unstable although not
> as bad as Anscocolor.
>    One advantage of Anscochrome for home use was that
> processing it was simple and relatively cheap. My first
> experience with color in the darkroom was processing a roll
> of 120 slides taken with my original Rolleicord IV. They
> were not bad considering I probably made all sorts of
> mistakes. I also once tried Ansco Printon, a direct positive
> printing material for making prints from transparencies. I
> think the stuff I had was outdated (I couldn't have afforded
> it otherwise). Anyway it was awful. I have since seen some
> very good looking Printon. Evidently some people had the
> magic. At least one big N.Y. lab offered Printon as an
> adjunct to Kodak Dye Transfer printing.
>
> ---
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles, CA, USA
> dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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