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Posted by Dave Cutler (Member # 515) on 10-09-2000, 03:23 PM:
I have a print of the original 'Dracula' and a print of the original 'Mummy' and was curious when they were printed. The year code is XOT, where T = triangle, on both prints. They are on B&W stock, and was just curious how old they were.
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 10-09-2000, 03:28 PM:
Sounds like they're 1996 prints. Since 1995, color print stock from Kodak has the year printed near the symbolic date code, but that may not be true of the B&W stocks; I don't remember offhand.
I believe that Kodak's web site has a date-code chart somewhere. Mine was clipped out of an old issue of Big Reel.
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 10-09-2000, 03:35 PM:
Dave:Here is the date code decoder for film prior to 1991:
http://www.kodak.com/country/US/en/motion/support/h1/identification.shtml#code
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Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
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Posted by John Schulien (Member # 215) on 10-10-2000, 04:17 PM:
There is one code missing from this film chart. I have a 16mm Kodak print with the date code circle-circle-circle. According to a date chart at another site, this was an alternate code used only in 1948.
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 10-10-2000, 04:39 PM:
1948 is probably correct; it's definitely the only possibility according to the chart that I have.
I do not have a scanner, so the best I can provide is this ASCII version of the date code chart, in case anyone cares.
Posted by Christopher Seo (Member # 7) on 10-11-2000, 02:46 AM:
Here's an easy-to-read, comprehensive one: http://www.16mmfilms.com/faqdatecode.html
Posted by John Schulien (Member # 215) on 10-11-2000, 11:51 AM:
How amusing. Three separate web sources for the date code, and NONE of them are complete from 1916 through the present!I'm very sure that 1948 is correct for my film -- that's the year it (Canon City) was released. Ooh ... according to imdb, it was banned in Finland!