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Title: The Power of Super 16
Date(s): 1993
Contributor(s): Eastman Kodak Company (Sponsor)
Description: Film exploring the benefits of using super 16mm film in motion picture production. Argues that film is superior to video as a medium for capturing moving images. Features various directors, producers, cinematographers, and other filmmakers, including Rune Ericson, Jean Pierre Beauviala, Andrew Dunn, Katja von Garnier, Ewa Karlström, Peter Langsdale, and Maurice Olivier. A UK production.
Collection ID: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection (Accession 2018.222)
Hagley ID: FILM_2018222_FC310
Collection: Sponsored and industrial motion picture film collection

Title: Motion picture film being cut into 35mm width
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Motion picture film being slit into 35mm width under safe light conditions. The film has been coated with emulsion and dyed, but it still in the wide form in which it is processed through manufacturing operations at DuPont's Photo Products plant at Parlin, New Jersey.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1575
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Cans of movie film ready for shipment
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Cans of movie film, ready for Hollywood and TV stations form appropriate background for this operator at the DuPont Photo Products Department plant at Parlin, New Jersey. She holds reel of exposed film. DuPont has made film at this plant since 1920.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1581
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Inspecting motion picture film
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Printed roll of motion picture film being inspected at the DuPont Company's plant at Parlin, New Jersey. DuPont entered the photographic field in 1912 when a modest experimental research program was started to develop plastic sheeting as a support for photographic films.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1580
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Machine perforating motion picture film
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Machine perforating motion picture film at the Parlin, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Photo Products Department. These perforations fit the sprockets on projectors.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1578
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: In the projection room
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: In the projection room at Parlin, New Jersey Photo Products Plant, an operator and projectionist examine DuPont motion picture film preparatory to projection. This is part of the inspection operation. DuPont is proud of an Oscar awarded by the Academy of Motion picture Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievement in the development of fine grain motion picture film.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1579
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Inspecting motion picture film
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Motion picture film being inspected as it is wound on large rolls at wind up end of casting machine at the DuPont Photo Products plant at Parlin, New Jersey.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1576
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: Operator thread perforator
Date(s): 1955
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: At the Photo Products plant, Parlin, New Jersey an operator thread perforator, a machine used to punch sprocket holes in motion picture film, microfilm and some types of x-ray film. This operation is normally done under what are called safe light conditions, but the area was illuminated for this photograph.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_1577
Collection: DuPont Product Information photographs

Title: DuPont commercial highlighting technical sales service, Cavalcade of America Commercials Reel No.4
Date(s): 1953
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (sponsor)
Description: Film begins with horserace at Delaware Park. Spokesman explains DuPont has created a new high speed film that can be processed and ready to check in five minutes, allowing officials to access the material more quickly. Spokesman gives another example of a Texas farmer whose farm was being threatened by a fungus disease. The film depicts Frank Horn, the technical sale serviceman responding to an urgent phone call from farmer Henry Fleming in Crystal City. Horn agrees with Fleming that his crop...
Show moreFilm begins with horserace at Delaware Park. Spokesman explains DuPont has created a new high speed film that can be processed and ready to check in five minutes, allowing officials to access the material more quickly. Spokesman gives another example of a Texas farmer whose farm was being threatened by a fungus disease. The film depicts Frank Horn, the technical sale serviceman responding to an urgent phone call from farmer Henry Fleming in Crystal City. Horn agrees with Fleming that his crop has white rust and Fleming asks for his recommendation. Horn suggests POSA fungicide, a DuPont product known to stop this disease. The fields are dusted from the air with the product and the fields are saved. DuPont's technical knowledge and assistance are stressed as additional benefits to purchasing DuPont products.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company films and commercials (Accession 1995.300)
Hagley ID: FILM_1995300_FC254_02
Collection: DuPont Company films and commercials