Kodak Slide dates

DBP · Feb 14, 2015

My mother in law is scanning some family slides (Kodachrome, of course), and I was surprised to see mounts with no date markings. Does anyone know when Kodak started automatically date marking slides?

MattKing · Feb 14, 2015

Are you sure they were all processed by Kodak?

There were a few independent labs that did Kodachrome.

Some of the dates on my father's Kodachrome slide mounts (all Kodak processed) are very, very faint to see.

Sirius Glass · Feb 14, 2015

Back in the 1960s Kodak and Ansco impressed the date without ink into the cardboard frame. I do not know if that was consistently done or not.

DBP · Feb 15, 2015

These are from the 1950s. Not impressed or inked with dates. And the mounts say Kodak.

480sparky · Feb 15, 2015

Usually, the date was that of processing. That may not always be the month & year it was taken.

railwayman3 · Feb 15, 2015

http://trainutz.com/rcMOUNT.shtml

(30 seconds on Google....probably other similar sites? )

Sirius Glass · Feb 15, 2015

480sparky said:
Usually, the date was that of processing. That may not always be the month & year it was taken.

If I remember correctly, consistently inconsistent or was it inconsistently consistent.

AgX · Feb 16, 2015

Sirius Glass said:
If I remember correctly, consistently inconsistent or was it inconsistently consistent.

What do you mean by that?

With type 135 film a lab hardly could know another date than that of their processing.

Sirius Glass · Feb 16, 2015

AgX said:
What do you mean by that?

With type 135 film a lab hardly could know another date than that of their processing.

When I checked sometimes a lab would stamp the date and another time they would not. It was not always done consistently.

480sparky · Feb 16, 2015

I have all my dad's slides, dated from 1955 to the late '60s. Sometimes, he would take a roll of 36x film over the course of an entire year. There's no way for the lab to know that frames 1-4 were taken in January, 1963, frame 5 was in February, frames 6-9 were taken in May,................

If he took the film in for processing in March 1964, they have Mar 64 stamped on 'em.

Only his hand-written notes on the frames has the correct date. Usually, just the year ("Vacation, 1961").

Dave in Kansas · Feb 16, 2015

I think I have slides with every marking Kodak used from 1955 to the end found in the link Railwayman posted. Do I win a prize? A free roll of new Kodachrome maybe with processing included?

Dave

Sirius Glass · Feb 16, 2015

Dave in Kansas said:
I think I have slides with every marking Kodak used from 1955 to the end found in the link Railwayman posted. Do I win a prize? A free roll of new Kodachrome maybe with processing included?

Dave

You win a dozen used M3 blue flash bulbs.

ME Super · Feb 16, 2015

Dave in Kansas said:
I think I have slides with every marking Kodak used from 1955 to the end found in the link Railwayman posted. Do I win a prize? A free roll of new Kodachrome maybe with processing included?

Dave

You might convince FILM Ferrania to part with a roll of their slide film once production starts. For a price.

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