Developing film twice? & Interesting article on neo-noir and the technological origins of the look

and the technique of enriching final prints with extra blacks and silver by running them through the developer a second time (eg. Top Gun – Tony Scott, 1986), color negative’s expressive possibilities had finally caught up with black and white film stocks of the 1940s.

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Helge said:

https://cinea.be/pushing-low-key-limits-a-cinematographic-history-of-noir-and-neo-noir/

Apart from this being quite an interesting article, there was one mentioning of a technique, that I haven’t heard about before.



Anyone know more about this?
Sounds a bit like predevelopment in Rodinal. And perhaps even som extended version of bleach bypass.
Trouble is Top Gun does not look like that at all.

Developing twice, even with some kind of fixing stage or stop, would AFAICS only result in a what amounts to a push.

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Lachlan Young said:

It sounds a lot like critical information being lost in some sort of translation - you can run colour print (as is likely the case with cinema - bleach bypass is/ was usually done on the print in cinema) or camera neg through multiple dev/ bleach cycles which will increase the amount of couplers formed - Ron Mowrey wrote about it on here as a technique used in R&D.

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Ian Grant said:

This was a technique used by astronomers they called it looping.

Ian

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