Kodak Gold 200 - Green?

[Kirks518]

So I was at my local lab picking up some film, and happened to see someone else's roll hanging waiting to be picked up. It was green. Really green. I asked about it, and they had no idea why it was green. It was a roll of Kodak Gold 200, and even the rebate was a bright green. It was developed (dip & dunk) in the same batch as mine (and others), and everyone else's film looked just fine.

I figured out of curiosity, I'd ask here as to why/how this could happen. They didn't know what could have caused it, but I figured if anyone would, it would be someone here.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Red safelight fog or red light fog of some sort. That is the usual cause.

PE

 

[BrianShaw]

That happened to me once with some very old "found" film. It had been in a camera for at least 8 years, maybe more. It was ghastly looking - dark green, everything including the rebate. The lab said it was exposure to solvents. Anything is possible since I think it wa s stored in a closet with mothballs... And who knows what other peculiar storage conditions it endured. There were faint images under the green but not worth trying to recover.

 

[Kirks518]

PE - their darkroom is truly dark. I don't think they use a safelight.

Brian - That's what I was guessing, crazy old and improperly stored film. Crazy how green it was!

 

[BrianShaw]

Deep emerald green. It made me jump when I first saw it. Crazy green!

 

[bvy]

Some of my E6 cross-processed film comes out green. We're sure it was Kodacolor? Agree that old found film never comes out bright orange, but usually tends toward a dark red or muddy black in my experience.

 

[Photo Engineer]

PE - their darkroom is truly dark. I don't think they use a safelight.

Brian - That's what I was guessing, crazy old and improperly stored film. Crazy how green it was!

The keeping could have been wrong or the customer could have fogged it somehow.

PE