Has anyone heard of "Kodaline" film?

[Oz Etkin]

I recently got a 100' bulk loader which had some film inside as well as some Kodak Snap-Cap magazines. Two of the magazines were labeled, one reading "Kodalith" and the other reading "Kodaline". I'm trying to figure out what the film is and have found some information about Kodalith, but nothing about Kodaline.

I made some test exposures of a color chart from the film inside the loader and developed it in Sprint Standard developer for 7:30. The best exposure was made at EI 6 and showed that the film is orthochromatic. I could not find any useful information in the rebate text except for a date and production code indicating the film was made by Eastman-Kodak at Rochester in 1984. The unexposed parts of the film had the clearest base I have ever seen and the lightstruck leader of the film was extremely dense with a grey appearance from both the base and emulsion sides of the film.

I think the film is most likely Kodalith and will run more development tests at different times and dilutions to see if I can confirm this, but I was curious if anyone knew about this "Kodaline" film on the off chance that's what it is.

Here is a photo of the magazines for reference:

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[MattKing]

From the 1944 Kodak Limited "Formulary" puublication:
Slow and Rapid "Kodaline" papers :- Proceed as (or plates, above, until the prints have been cleared in R.21 B solution, then Wash for 5 minutes with room lights on. Re-develop in 0 .172 until completely blackened. Wash in running water (or 5 minutes.
And from this datasheet for graphic arts line camera film:

The following:

 

[250swb]

I believe that Kodaline is referred to by Kodak as a 'stripping film' (don't get your hopes up) in that the emulsion can be stripped off the acetate base layer and transferred to another medium.

 

[MarkS]

Kodak made dozens of special-purpose graphic-arts films. All were ortho- or blue-sensitive, slow, and designed for extreme contrast. I used many of them back in the day, but never Kodaline. Have fun experimenting!

 

[glbeas]

I believe that Kodaline is referred to by Kodak as a 'stripping film' (don't get your hopes up) in that the emulsion can be stripped off the acetate base layer and transferred to another medium.

In this case stripping refers to patching in pieces of film onto the main sheet of lithographic line film. In the newspaper days this was mainly stripping in halftone negs into clear windows on the line film and taping the main sheets together in the order they need to be burned onto the press plate. This can also be the creation of secondary overlays for tone screens burned separately on the plate and spot color plates as well as process color plates.

 

[nosmok]

I have a partial can of 70mm 'Lineagraph/ Shellburst' film from EK, with an SO number that I don't recall. Could they have renamed that to "Kodaline"? EK would sometimes regularize a film if an SO item sold well enough IIRC.

 

[Shal]

If you need more snap cap or canisters for developing reach out, just found a box with my darkroom equipment in top form.

 

[MattKing]

From the 1989 Technical Information sheet, courtesy of a reliable source:

My apologies for the segmented format. The material came to me in a way that makes it difficult to add to a post.

 

[Brads585]

I recently got a 100' bulk loader which had some film inside as well as some Kodak Snap-Cap magazines. Two of the magazines were labeled, one reading "Kodalith" and the other reading "Kodaline". I'm trying to figure out what the film is and have found some information about Kodalith, but nothing about Kodaline.

I made some test exposures of a color chart from the film inside the loader and developed it in Sprint Standard developer for 7:30. The best exposure was made at EI 6 and showed that the film is orthochromatic. I could not find any useful information in the rebate text except for a date and production code indicating the film was made by Eastman-Kodak at Rochester in 1984. The unexposed parts of the film had the clearest base I have ever seen and the lightstruck leader of the film was extremely dense with a grey appearance from both the base and emulsion sides of the film.

I think the film is most likely Kodalith and will run more development tests at different times and dilutions to see if I can confirm this, but I was curious if anyone knew about this "Kodaline" film on the off chance that's what it is.

Here is a photo of the magazines for reference:
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Thanks in advance for any help!

I know this is an old thread, but I can answer your question. Both Kodalith and Kodaline were high contrast orthochromatic films. Kodalith was on an acetate base and Kodaline was on an Estar base. I was a photo tech at Eastman Kodak and we used 35mm Kodaline for masking purposes for slides used in computer controlled multi projector, multi image shows. The Estar base remained dimensionally stable under the heat of the projector lamps whereas the acetate base would shrink and swell which would cause havoc with image alignment.