Exposed or not?

[gupa]

A friend of mine found a roll of Verichrome Pan 620 in a neighbor's garage, Im trying to figure out if it was exposed or not. Im familliar with 120 film, this roll is not in any other packaging, doesn't seem to be as tightly wrapped on the spool as it should be, and instead of a paper band to hold it wrapped it has a piece of 1 inch wide plain white cloth tape wrapped part way around it.
Does anyone remember this film coming from Kodak wrapped this way? Another curious thing is, it seems to have a bend mark across the tapered end of the paper.

 

[removed account4]

the bent thing might be where it was in the spool
all the roll/spool film in have used has a bent part
once it is removed ...

if you have a dark room, you can unwrap it a little bit
and in the dark feel if the end is taped to the paper ..
if it is taped, then it is unused,
if it is loose, like a 120 film ready to be processed, it might be ready to process ...

good luck!

john

 

[Sirius Glass]

If the paper it is wrapped in says "Exposed" it is exposed.

If the paper it is wrapped in does not say "Exposed" it is not exposed. If it has not been exposed then you can shoot it.

Steve

 

[rphenning]

If the paper it is wrapped in says "Exposed" it is exposed.

If the paper it is wrapped in does not say "Exposed" it is not exposed. If it has not been exposed then you can shoot it.

Steve

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instead of a paper band to hold it wrapped it has a piece of 1 inch wide plain white cloth tape wrapped part way around it.

 

[gupa]

Yeah,
thats what I was thinking.

 

[gupa]

Well, in case anyone cares. I developed this roll, based on my thinking that there was some evidence that it had been run through a camera
(due to the bend marks at the leading end of the backing paper) and may have been exposed.
Stupid me, I thought there might have been some older camera that would require you to re-roll the film back unto the original spool once the film had been exposed.
Turns out that Sirius Glass was correct. About the last foot of the backing paper changes color from all yellow to yellow with a red border, and about the last 6" is all red with a black border and says "EXPOSED do not re use".

Anyway, the film was clear with just a few smudges of light leak at the edges, no frame lines anywhere.

So, I deserve to be hanged, I wasted a good roll of a classic film which can't be replaced.