“ ANSCO 242 & YOU ” 1955 ANSCO 242 PHOTOGRAPHIC FILM STOCK PROMOTIONAL MOVIE 69515

[@maryjocully8806]

Someone somewhere will find the information shared in this film useful or important or helpful. I suspect it will be few. I am glad the video still exists and Periscope was able to post it here………. just in case that 1 person shows up

[@Monica-gj2yx]

LOL!

[@withershin]

I'm guessing most of the technical parts of this reel went way over your head. Stick to cat and dog videos perhaps?

[@Gannett2011]

Ignore the haters. You get what you want from these films.

[@Gannett2011]

Fascinating bit of history. I work in video (more on the surveillance side but with some in-house video productions for the organization I work for) and seeing this just brings home just how time-consuming it was back then to get great results, no slapping in a reel of film and pressing the button! I also would have loved to have seen this back in the day, before the film chemicals had broken down, it almost looks like a 2-colour process.

[@patrickrostker6693]

Neato! Ansco was a big name, I knew about their 35mm still film, now I've learned a bit more about the motion picture side, cool stuff!

[@RetroElijah1982]

Amazing, hella informative as well. Great video PF

[@Richard-t7q1f]

I remember when feature pictures began to come out in Anscocolor, being used to Tecchnicolor they looked washed out. Eastman color was not much better but some labs did better with it than others. Ansco still film was pretty good especially because it was faster than Kodak and easy to process in a home darkroom. One saw Anscocolor mostly on low budget films. FWIW, Ansco's predecessor Agfa made the first incorporated dye color film in Germany c.mid 1930s. Kodak could not solve the problem of keeping the dyes in place and used a process (Kodachrome) where the dyes were produced in processing. A much more complex and difficult process.

[@beeenn649]

Yea but Kodachrome was worth it. My 60+ year old Kodachrome is in perfect condition and probably will be for another 60 years.

[@ClausB252]

Is the digital color correction for old Ansco films different from Kodak? Is that why green and blue look nearly the same in this video?

[@Gannett2011]

Not sure how it would have compared back in the day (by all accounts it was inferior to other brands) but I'm sure time and the degredation of the chemical dyes in the film print are more responsible for the red/turquoise look of the film.

[@Richard-t7q1f]

@@Gannett2011 I dont think these films are color corrected. I remember Anscocolor motion pictures as being low saturation but not missing blue. Been a long time though. I suspect the lack of blue and lack of differentiation between blue and green is due to the aging of the dyes,, probably did not look that way originally.

[@Gannett2011]

@@Richard-t7q1f I'm sure you're right. Even in this state, it seems to have fared much better than those later color film stocks that turned pink!

[@Richard-t7q1f]

@@Gannett2011 I am not sure why Kodachrome has lasted much better than later color films but the process was quite different. Same with Technicolor prints made by the dye imbibition or dye transfer method In both cases the dyes are different. In the case of both Anscocolor and Eastman color the dye precursors or formers are in the emulsion and are converted to dye by reaction products of developing the silver image. In Kodachrome the dye formers are in the developing solutions. Perhaps a different dye results or there is some residue that is more completely washed out. In the case of Technicolor the image on the print is the result of a process more like ink on paper printing than the chemical reaction in Ansco/Agfa/ Kodak processes. There are simply no impurities left. The original Technicolor "three strip" process used black and white film so there is no degradation of dyes, they are as permanent as any B&W film. Later Technicolor used Ansco or Kodak color negative film for the originals to the lifetime is similar to other color processes. Tech did use a special version of Kodachrome for special purposes but discontinued the Three Color cameras when Eastman Color Negative was considered perfected enough for use. This allowed the use of standard motion picture cameras in place of the very large and very heavy three color cameras. It was also faster, thrree color, even at its final perfection, was very slow. Enough. I would be interested in seeing what modern digitally restored versions of this film look like. In general Periscope does not do much to improve their materials. .

[@BrassLock]

It's with great regret that I have to reveal, ANSCO colours were not that real. Blue, there was none, where to be seen? Except, as sadly - it was green. Red was there, and everywhere, but only as shades of blood. Yellow but did put on a show, but with grime (don't you know).