Hi All,
Recently, I purchased a small batch of glass mounted color slides of New York City and some other locations from an online auction. There are a mix of slides in the batch, the earliest of which, based on the first release movie on the theater marquee, is from 1938, and shows a significant amount of fading. Others in the batch are of a similar era, but don't have clues like this to help specify the exact year, and are still in great shape color-wise.
My GUESS is that the faded photos of 1938 are from the "early" Kodachrome I have sometimes heard about which lacked the color stability of the subsequent emulsion, while the others with more true color are of the famed later emulsion.
But of course, not having been around in 1938, that is just a guess. Would there have been any other readily available color transparency films available in 135 in the United States at the time?
Recently, I purchased a small batch of glass mounted color slides of New York City and some other locations from an online auction. There are a mix of slides in the batch, the earliest of which, based on the first release movie on the theater marquee, is from 1938, and shows a significant amount of fading. Others in the batch are of a similar era, but don't have clues like this to help specify the exact year, and are still in great shape color-wise.
My GUESS is that the faded photos of 1938 are from the "early" Kodachrome I have sometimes heard about which lacked the color stability of the subsequent emulsion, while the others with more true color are of the famed later emulsion.
But of course, not having been around in 1938, that is just a guess. Would there have been any other readily available color transparency films available in 135 in the United States at the time?
