Negative thinking
Posted by Nigel Goldsmith on Wednesday 27 January 2010 at 1:27pm
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We have just released a new advice document looking at the different materials used to make film for stills and moving images.
A lot of historic film footage was captured on stock which is highly unstable and may not be around much longer. Some collections are potentially explosive and so this document - Analogue Film Types Used for Still and Moving Images - is aimed at helping users identify older film negatives in their collection.
The iconic image of the ‘Migrant Mother’ by Dorothea Lange, 1936. Photo from The Library of Congress on Flickr: The Commons - No known copyright restrictions
This picture was initially photographed on highly unstable nitrate film.
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