I know. Old movie stock from the early days until sometime in the 1940's was shot on it. Surprising that some old movie storage vaults didn't actually disappear with loud reports. (And it was hardly smokeless).
At 12:30 AM 2/14/2002 -0500, you wrote: >On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 23:41:14 -0500, Peter Alling wrote: > > > The 1890 or there about edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica includes > > directions on how to make cellulose nitrate on a kitchen stove. It was > > one of the original plastic film bases. (Also a bit unstable after a > time). > >I'll say. IIRC, it's also gun cotton. One of the original smokeless >powders. > >TTYL, DougF KG4LMZ >- >This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, >go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to >visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
