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  2. Conservation and restoration of film - Wikipedia

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    Cellulose nitrate (c. 1889 – c. 1950) is the first of film supports.It can be found as roll film, motion picture film, and sheet film. It is difficult to determine the dates when all nitrate film was discontinued, however, Eastman Kodak last manufactured nitrate film in 1951. [1]

  3. Nitrocellulose - Wikipedia

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    Cellulose triacetate superseded nitrate as the film industry's mainstay base very quickly. While Kodak had discontinued some nitrate film stocks earlier, it stopped producing various nitrate roll films in 1950 and ceased production of nitrate 35 mm motion picture film in 1951. [49]

  4. List of discontinued photographic films - Wikipedia

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    Forte (Forte Photochemical Industry VAC) was a Hungarian manufacture of photographic film and paper products originally established in 1922. They ceased to manufacture products in January 2007. Only B&W films were coated by Forte. Colour films were supplied by other manufacturers, and packaged into Forte branding.

  5. Film base - Wikipedia

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    Nitrate film stock was used in every major film production before about 1951. Many silent films only survived because they were printed to 16 mm film , which did not use a nitrate base. A report published by the United States Library of Congress in September 2013 states that 70 percent of all American silent feature films are lost.

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    The Egyptian is one of only five theaters in the U.S. that can project highly flammable vintage nitrate films. Safety regulations allow only two nitrate prints to be kept on site at once, and they ...

  7. Conservation and restoration of photographs - Wikipedia

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    Nitrate sheet film was used widely though the 1930s, while nitrate roll film was used through the 1950s. The nitrate base was replaced with cellulose acetate in 1923. By 1937, Cellulose diacetate was used as the base, and beginning in 1947 Cellulose triacetate was used. [6] Polyester film was introduced around 1960. [7] 1935: Color photographs

  8. Photographic film - Wikipedia

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    The changeover was completed for X-ray films in 1933, but although safety film was always used for 16 mm and 8 mm home movies, nitrate film remained standard for theatrical 35 mm films until it was finally discontinued in 1951. [48] Hurter and Driffield began pioneering work on the light sensitivity of photographic emulsions in 1876.

  9. Film stock - Wikipedia

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    Kodak discontinued the manufacture of nitrate base in 1951, and the industry transitioned entirely to safety film in 1951 in the United States and by 1955 internationally. Since the late 1990s, almost all release prints have used polyester film stock.