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Author Topic: LPP film stock fading Jerry Axelsson Expert Film Handler Posts: 107 From: Stockholm, Sweden Registered: May 2005 posted 05-24-2011 12:53 AM                     Brad, which lab processed the print of "Contact" in question?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-13-2012 07:50 PM                     This turned up in discussion recently. The lab that made this print was Technicolor. Any other ideas?  |  IP: Logged Victor Liorentas Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 800 From: london ontario canada Registered: May 2009 posted 05-13-2012 08:36 PM                     The clip has the same kind of look as a super 8 home movie when the film is a bit overexposed at the head or tail... This would of course be that way from the beginning and not develop a few years later.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 05-14-2012 10:12 PM                     Improper removal of developer during processing...  |  IP: Logged Simon Wyss Film Handler Posts: 80 From: Basel, BS, Switzerland Registered: Apr 2011 posted 05-15-2012 03:38 AM                     I take back my silly oil contribution. After watching the clip again I’d like to say that the issue provokes a thought with me that goes with light. It cannot be the positive printing stage, orangeish flickering, so it’d rather have occured during exposure of an interneg. Something bypassing printer valves like varying lamp current. Perhaps the simple agony of a printer lamp?  |  IP: Logged Simon Wyss Film Handler Posts: 80 From: Basel, BS, Switzerland Registered: Apr 2011 posted 05-16-2012 07:09 AM                     Still another idea: Someone made light fall onto the film like fumbling around with a torch lamp. She or he went to watch a little whether everything runs alright on that printer, thereby ruining the interneg.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 05-16-2012 12:48 PM                     The film was perfectly fine for years guys.  |  IP: Logged Mitchell Dvoskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1869 From: West Milford, NJ, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 05-16-2012 01:06 PM                     Years ago I had on odd reel of a 1985 feature, clearly marked LPP on the edge code, where only the dark (night) scenes faded to brown. No splices. I suspect that the cause was either a manufacturing defect or a lab processing issue, or possibly both. This may just be in my mind, but another thing I have noticed is that some Eastman low fade prints seem to get less sharp over the years.  |  IP: Logged

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