Old Kodak film cans - which film?

George Collier

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A friend has some old Kodak aluminum film canisters, which came in many colors, often to denote the film inside.
One combination he as come across is a blue can, with a yellow cap, and old enough to still have the Kodak logo stamped into the can. Does anyone know or remember what kind of film came in this can?
 

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Going by an old film packet which I have, with an (empty) blue can and yellow cap inside, this is likely an original Ektachrome ("32 ASA") can from 1963, sold in the UK.

(I'm obviously assuming that the can is in the original film packet, but, as it's with other undisturbed items dating from my late Grandfather's photographic interests, I'm reasonably sure that it's correct.)
 

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I have a bunch of these, more than pictured below, but I don't think I've ever seen a blue can with a yellow cap. I don't know if lids have been swapped around on any of the ones I have. I thought Ektachrome was a yellow can with a blue lid.

Kodak 35mm Film Cans by Bryan Chernick, on Flickr
 

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It may be possible that different markets - USA, Canada, UK, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, etc., etc. may have used different combinations.
 

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Back in the 1960's and 1970's Kodak (here in the UK) had a factory service for colour processing (Kodachrome by mail, and Ektachrome and Kodacolor through dealers). As most films would be sent back to them in the cans, I wonder if Kodak re-used them for packing new films; it would seem wasteful to have thrown them out ? .

Certainly the UK film Gratispool, who sold and processed Dynachrome and other films back in the 1960's, re-used cassettes and tins to pack their own-brand films, with labels over the old printing.....I have an ancient "Gratispool Colour Film", which is their own brand (presumably Dynachrome), packed in an re-used Ektachrome cassette !
 

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I doubt that Kodak would risk reusing packaging materials. more likely that they would crush them.

the introduction of the Staked End caps was likely to shut down operations like railwayman3 describes, which apparently sometimes went one step further and featured Bulk film being repacked into used cassettes with the label NOT being changed.
 
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