Motion-Picture Film Support: 1889–1976 an Historical Review
With the invention and development of the motion-picture film projector in the late eighteen hundreds there came a need for long lengths of a flexible transparent film support which could be coated with photographic emulsion to provide rolls of positive and negative film. As a result of close cooperation between George Eastman and Thomas A. Edison a film support made from cellulose nitrate was developed. A Kodak chemist, Harry M. Reichenbach, formulated the first successful base coating composition in 1889.1
- Print ISSN
- 0036-1682
- Published
- 1976-07
- Content type
- Original Research
- DOI
- 10.5594/J13259
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