One of my favorite youtube channels (SmarterEveryDay) is in the middle of a 3 part series on how film is made. Destin got a pretty in-depth guided tour of the Kodak factory in Rochester NY. Watching it makes me happy that film isn't quite yet a dead technology. I never realized how fantastically complicated making something like color film could be.
The fist episode was about making the backer:
The second episode, which he just posted, is about the coating process..... Not what I thought for sure, and all of this stuff was designed decades ago.
The whole thing is certainly not something you could accomplish on a small scale, and once this technology is gone, it would be gone forever I would think, which would be slightly sad.
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His second channel video about the chemistry behind the film:
The fist episode was about making the backer:
The second episode, which he just posted, is about the coating process..... Not what I thought for sure, and all of this stuff was designed decades ago.
The whole thing is certainly not something you could accomplish on a small scale, and once this technology is gone, it would be gone forever I would think, which would be slightly sad.
--Edit--
His second channel video about the chemistry behind the film: