----- Original Message ----- From: "graywolf"
Subject: Re: Why is 35mm film sometimes called 135?
Yes, up into at least the early to mid-1950's. Because that is what I was shooting and developing as a kid. I am not sure when they changed over to plastic cores.
I had a wood spool 620 film come into my B&W lab one time. I managed to salvage images off the film, even though it had been stored in a basement for about 40 years. I was able to date the film to the late fourties, based on a licence plate on a car. I believe they went to metal spools for a while, and then plastic. I expect the wood spools were related to the war effort when anything metal was being made into planes and bombs and the like.
William Robb
