> > From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2006/03/02 Thu AM 01:37:28 GMT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Why is 35mm film sometimes called 135? > > Many folks suppose that WWII thing, Bill, but the information I have > seen on it says differently. That 600 series film size was introduced > long before the war and had the wood core from the start. I imagine it > was a economic issue, prior to WWII wood was so cheap that most shipping > containers were made of it. I remember orange crates (around up into the > earily 50's) is that old or what?
Orange crates are still made out of wood. It's just pulped and otherwise processed, printed on and folded. Yet still, apparently, cheaper then the raw product. > > Come to think of it, still around when I was a kid: steam locamotives, > Street cars, orange crates, Great Lakes freighters, local ammusment > parks, flat-head engines, propeller airliners, etc. All those things > were pretty much gone by 1960. And many of the things we take for > granted now did not exist. And I am not even old, quite yet. Coming soon, to an energy-guzzling country near you: horse-drawn vehicles. > > graywolf > http://www.graywolfphoto.com > http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf > "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" > ----------------------------------- > > > William Robb wrote: > > > > ----- 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 > > > > > > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information
