[…]stmancolor process, you’ll sell a lot more. So eventually it all got down to virtually one process which was Eastmancolor and all the stocks, such as Fuji, 3M, and Agfa and Gevaert, and so on, all went through the same process. So then you got to the point where a lab would buy the print stock they […]
[…]the difference. And also, I mean, there was the film products were known mostly by numbers rather than names. And the newsreel film was 1301. And the Fujifilm stock started off as I was just trying to think then whether which one you've just been drawn with just would have come in 5301, which wasn't[…]
[…]lor that you were working on?PS: I think that it was exclusively Eastmancolor. There was very few choices, there was Agfa, if I remember rightly, and Fuji didn’t exist and we didn’t have access to Sovcolor. Maybe there was one other made in East Germany. I can’t recall precisel[…]
[…] our stock, because Fujicolor approached us because it was before Fuji was established, they were know n on stills and […]
[…]n called Tony Lewis who was our contact man and he was brilliant. And they were good because they also had a bit of a problem with our stock, because Fujicolor approached us because it was before Fuji was established, they were known on stills and things but they wanted to get in on the feature mark[…]
[…] dye or this coupler in this process” because it was almost a covert world that they worried about people going off to work maybe for Agfa-Gevaert or Fujicolour or other companies and taking the manufacturing information with them. So, we weren’t exposed to a lot of the concepts other than working w[…]
[…]on air so the first frame appeared and you would try and quickly balance the colour to something. When I was at the BBC they would mix Kodachrome and Fuji and Fuji was always very red so if you knew it was Fuji coming next, you could adjust the leaver to over roughly where Fuji was so that it would […]
[…]tock which could be developed at a higher temperature and higher speed, with all-new formulas, which would increase their profits and put pressure on Fuji, whose stock wasn’t very good and mainly used on B-pictures; Kodak didn’t get the new stock right, the ‘hot stock’, as it had an ‘horrendous cros[…]
[…], which was printed in a single printing] operation on to print film. And the process was standard. Not all the manufacturers followed Kodak exactly. Fuji did use the Eastmancolor negative, [or ECN process], and Eastmancolor print [or ECP process] but Agfa, the other principal manufacturer of colour[…]
