Can anyone identify if this is old film or if it was processed wrong?

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So I developed all these negatives. In two separate batches. Would anyone be able to tell me what they think is wrong here?
The strange thing is some of the photos on some of the rolls came out PERFECT. The other frames came out weird. Usually when it's a chemical issue the whole roll would be destroyed. This time around that's not the case.

Here are some photos of the negatives and some photos of the scans. The photos here are ALL from the same roll. And they come from one of the more brown looking rolls of film:
 

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Maybe the film was stuck together in those areas? But the areas where you DO have images look terrible too. Bad chemicals?
 

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I’ve seen that green on rolls of color neg film that I found in my Dad’s old camera. It was, ironically, also shot in Italy and spent about 20 years in the camera. They were commercially processed by a very trusted and respected lab. Mine were greener than yours. None of mine came out even close to being usable.
 

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How old is the film, how long ago was it exposed, how long did it sit in the camera before being removed and if it wasn't you that took the pictures do you know who did and when ?

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How old is the film, how long ago was it exposed, how long did it sit in the camera before being removed and if it wasn't you that took the pictures do you know who did and when ?

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So it wasn't me. The person said that the green rolls were expired rolls. They said the purchased the film in two diff countries (Though they are not clear if these rolls all came from the same place or a different place.

I guess I'm not too worried about the green rolls, more so wondering about the brown rolls.
I’ve seen that green on rolls of color neg film that I found in my Dad’s old camera. It was, ironically, also shot in Italy and spent about 20 years in the camera. They were commercially processed by a very trusted and respected lab. Mine were greener than yours. None of mine came out even close to being usable.
Totally, those were deff expired the person said. any thoughts on the brown film?
Maybe the film was stuck together in those areas? But the areas where you DO have images look terrible too. Bad chemicals?
Nah, if that was the case it would have been not developed at all.
 

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Hi, from what I can see of the images you posted, I would think it is an old film, poorly stored and some of the negatives are underexposed.
Some old films can have images exposed, on the same roll, over a long period and so the latent images are not all the same age.
 
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Hi, from what I can see of the images you posted, I would think it is an old film, poorly stored and some of the negatives are underexposed.
Some old films can have images exposed, on the same roll, over a long period and so the latent images are not all the same age.
This MAKES SENSE. Thank you!!
 
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I'd also add, it might also be that the color palette is different in each photo so in addition to different times being shot, we should also account for some dies being more susceptible to degrading
 

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Which film brand and type are green and which are orange?
 

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I can make out Kodak GC 400-8 and can verify film with 400-6 (Six) was sold to me in New York in September of 2001. It was Kodak Gold Ultra 400.
So, yours is less than twenty years old. Not that it helps you at all, but those films of mine went through airport scanners in checked luggage and didn't get developed until a decade later and they were perfectly fine. Evidently exposing film while it's fresh and developing a lot later is less damaging to C41 films than exposing it long past its use by date.
 

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the color palette is different in each photo
Which is very likely due to scanning and automatic digital corrections. Scan an entire strip/film in one go on a flatbed so all frames get the same treatment, that's going to give more info than separately scanned frames.

Yeah, it all looks horrible. If it's old film, it must have been stored in atrocious conditions. The only stuff I've seen that came close to this was 1980s duplicating film stored in a shed and developed 35 years later. That looked pretty similar to this.
 
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