Old curved BW film recovery

Serg Lavrenchuk · Oct 13, 2008

I have found a huge amount of my family 35mm films. But during 20 years being in rolls they all are so curved that is is very hard to deal with.

Can you advise any good methods to recover them to some flat state.

Thanks.
Sergey

Jon Shiu · Oct 13, 2008

Hi, you can try to reverse roll them and put them back in their cans for a week or two.

Jon

nworth · Oct 13, 2008

Since you are asking in the Black and White area, I assume these are black and white films. From your note, I assume they are more or less full rolls. If my assumptions are correct, You can try loading the film onto a developing reel and rewashing and drying it. Rewashing can help, because the gelatin can dry out and curl worse. Loading it onto a reel will prevent badly curled film from sticking to itself.

greybeard · Oct 14, 2008

Sergey,

There was a short thread on exactly this topic back in June ( (there was a url link here which no longer exists) ) into which I posted a solution that worked for me; you might look there and then try to contact the original poster to see if it worked out for him.

Good luck

Serg Lavrenchuk · Feb 1, 2018

Came to the may old topic and found that link is not working any more. As I understand it might be but under different URL. Could you please help to compare old APUG URL to new Photrio?

Kino · Feb 1, 2018

For B&W safety film only... no nitrate!

keenmaster486 · Feb 1, 2018

Doing a little searching around reveals:

https://www.photrio.com/forum/threads/help-with-old-film-curl.39686/

Old curved BW film recovery

Serg Lavrenchuk

Jon Shiu

nworth

greybeard

Serg Lavrenchuk

Kino

keenmaster486

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