16-mm sound motion pictures, a manual for the professional and the amateur (1949-55)

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392 XII. PROCESSING AND RELEASE PRINTING cut into a print from an original negative without an observable change in picture quality. It has been many years since a release print for a Hollywood picture was made from an original negative; release prints are now made almost entirely from dupe negatives. Since the film emulsions commercially available have exactly the same characteristics regardless of whether the base material is slit to a width of 35-mm or to 16-mm, Fig. 99. Maurer optical one-to-one Fig. 100. Modern RCA optical reducsound printer. tion sound printer, PB-177. (35-mm to 16-mm). there is a smaller loss in picture detail in a single copying step with 35-mm film than with 16-mm film if all other conditions are the same because the detail-rendering ability of the 35-mm film frame is greater in the ratio of the area of the 35-mm film frame to the 16-mm film frame. A master positive (on Eastman #1365 developed in a negative bath) is made from the original 35-mm negative. From this master positive