Unprocessed color film has a yellow filter layer somewhere in between, which is commonly realized with colloidal silver. AFAIK this colloidal silver looks exactly like that brown milky stuff we see in the bottom image posted by SuXarik.
SuXarik could test that bleach composition very easily:
SuXarik could test that bleach composition very easily:
- take a short test clip of unprocessed color film, fresh or old doesn't matter.
- run this test clip through bleach and fixer cycle, wash
- If the resulting clip looks mostly transparent (with orange mask, of course), then bleach&fixer are fine
- If the resulting clip looks brown and dense, bleach didn't work