I had a reply from the camera shop:

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Our in-store committee thinks it might be a copy-neg/slide from a litho 
original, hence seeing all the lines from the pre-press screens used in the 
print process.
If not that, then we’re in the dark too.

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I'm interested to know what others think.

Cheers,
Dave

On Feb 28, 2014, at 12:27 pm, steve harley <p...@paper-ape.com> wrote:

> on 2014-02-27 14:32 David Mann wrote
>> Here's something the more experienced photographers might be able to help me 
>> with...
>> 
>> Among these old slides I've been scanning are a handful of colour ones which 
>> are not part of the Australian stuff.  A few of these colour ones (but not 
>> all) appear to have a kind of halftone pattern.  See here for an example at 
>> 1200ppi.
>> 
>> http://gallery.multi.net.nz/photo/771/
> 
> can you post a snip at 100%? the pattern as far as i can make it out doesn't 
> have traditional halftone angles, and appears to be RGB, rather than CMYK; 
> this would suggest it was shot from a display or some other transmissive, 
> rather than reflective, source; what that could have been in 1951 i have no 
> idea - is the actual slide from 1951, or is it perhaps a repro slide shot off 
> of a video of the original?
> 
> 
> 
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