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16-mm sound motion pictures : a manual for the professional and the amateur (1953)

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52 III. 16-MM FILM AND ITS CHAKACTERISTICS (6) Master Positive — Fine Grain Master positive film is a fine-grain positive-type film used to provide a positive aspect image when printed from a dupe negative or from an original negative. Although low resolving power master positive materials are available on the market, they are obsolete ; only fine-grain master positive film should be used. A typical film such as Eastman 5365 will have the following characteristics: a yellow-dyed ''color-blind" positive-type emulsion ; fine-grain ; rated resolving power of 150 lines per millimeter; and quite low photographic speed. Master positive film is customarily developed in a negative-type bath; since the emulsion is inherently a high-contrast "color-blind" positive type responsive only to ultraviolet and blue, it is necessary to develop the film in a negative bath to bring the contrast of the master positive film within practical limits to provide a gamma product of unity when used with the dupe negative. (Theoretically, a gamma product of unity causes no change of contrast of an image regardless of the number of copying steps involved ; this assumes no loss of resolving power in the process.) Table VIII lists the master positive fine-grain available. TABLE VIII Master Positive Film Manufacturer Code # Trade name AntiBase halation dye Recommended developing gamma Lines/ mm rated resolving power Eastman Kodak 5365 Fine Grain Duplicating Positive Clear Yellow-dyed emulsion 1.40 150 Release Print Materials (7) Release Positive (Black-and-White) Fine Grain Release positive is film used to make release prints. ' ' A release print is a composite print made for general distribution and exhibition. . . ."* The film used is a compromise of print quality with laboratory print manufacturing cost; it is not the best quality print that can be made, but rather the best that can be made at a satisfactorily low price. Since both picture and sound appear on a release print, it is also necessary that the quality of neither shall be seriously jeopardized for the sake * ASA Z22.56-1947, section 3.4.6.