nitrate film

The use of nitrate film may have been a factor in the film's later loss.

Movie theaters across the country would run these issues, usually on 35mm nitrate film stock.

"A bit like nitrate film," he says in a phone interview from Britain.

It's kind of like the old nitrate films that are rotting away, except those were from 50 years ago.

Unlike many nitrate films, the contents of this 1916 can were still intact.

Under the right conditions, nitrate film can even spontaneously combust.

Nitrate film will first fade, then become brittle and sticky.

Solidarity, it seemed, had gone the way of nitrate film and reel-to-reel.

Nitrate film is a volatile medium with a finite shelf life.

The Business is about one third the way through an extensive programme to convert nitrate film holdings onto safety stock.

Nitrate film can burst into flames spontaneously when it reaches this state!

These can only be used with acetate, triacetate and nitrate films.

The task looms as a preservation problem equal in size to the conservation of nitrate film.

Movie projectors have not used combustible nitrate film for decades, so the safety risk is long gone.

He used three such equipped cameras placed adjacently and filming on 63mm nitrate film.

These less flammable substitutes for nitrate film were called safety film.

Nitrate film is classified as "dangerous goods", which requires licenses for storage and transportation.

Endangered Species Movies made before about 1950 were shot on nitrate film, which disintegrates over time.

This is nothing but decomposing nitrate film stock.

• Proceeding with a new collection facility for cellulose nitrate films.

Nitrate film is also highly flammable and has been known to self-ignite under conditions of high temperature.

The originals are now kept in a refrigerated store which will prevent the nitrate film from deteriorating.

Many early motion pictures are lost because the nitrate film used in that era was extremely unstable and flammable.

The facility has one of most modern vaults for the storage of nitrate film.

Since safety film is much more stable than nitrate film, there are comparatively few lost films after about 1950.