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?
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.
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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
