Strange Ilford Film

About 20 years ago I bought a spool of a strange Ilford film and can describe it as pale blue with no antihalation layer and a speed of 50 asa. It may be some form of medical film. It was sold by Freestyle in 35mm and was only sold in long rolls of 50 and 100ft. It is nearly grainless but produces beautiful tonalities with Microdol X. Can any one tell me anything about this strange and wonderful film?
Denise Libby

Any chance it is orthochromatic film? Maybe dental x-ray film?

I would look here:

http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Ilford/Chronology.html

It has a history and chronology of Ilford, and shows many of the Ilford products, including films, with their original package. You may be able to identify it from there.

Marco

Dear Archer,

I really do not know what this was, the only thing I can possibly think of is Cineradiography Film but I am unaware that it was ever supplied to FREESTYLE.

Regards

Simon. ILFORD Photo / HARMAN technology Limited :

Pan F+ was sold under an Arista label until a few years ago, I think Pan 50 was its name. I bought 200 ft of the stuff after Ilford stopped supplying their products for rebranding.

K.

Several years ago I bought 50 feet of bulk film that had been frozen, it was also clear with a ASA of 50, but only labled as Made in England expired in 1978 with the ASA. It reminded me of a Kodak film from that time peroid I saw in the Air Force maked as Plus X Areo film. Other than Ilford I dont know else coated film in the Uk in 70s.

PDH said:

Several years ago I bought 50 feet of bulk film that had been frozen, it was also clear with a ASA of 50, but only labled as Made in England expired in 1978 with the ASA. It reminded me of a Kodak film from that time peroid I saw in the Air Force maked as Plus X Areo film. Other than Ilford I dont know else coated film in the Uk in 70s.

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Kodak did. Not that I'm saying it was a Kodak product, as I haven't a clue, but Kodak were coating film here as well as Ilford in that period. Today I understand Kodak still coat colour paper in the UK.

Brac said:

Kodak did. Not that I'm saying it was a Kodak product, as I haven't a clue, but Kodak were coating film here as well as Ilford in that period. Today I understand Kodak still coat colour paper in the UK.

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Durning the 70's I dont think Kodak sold any of their products relabled, but someone may have bought in bulk and repackaged.

I was really pleased with the bulk roll I had, quite nice in a number of developers, had good ladatude for a slow flim. .

AFAIK, Kodak has never sold any of its film for the purpose of being relabeled. I just not something that Kodak was interested in doing.

Thank you all for the information. The most remarkable feature of the film is the fact that the film, before exposure, is a very pale blue with no antihalation backing of any kind and the information that came with the film and in the freestyle catalog warned of possible ghost images if the film is exposed in direct sunlight because it has no antihalation layer. The film is panchromatic and seems very red sensitive and it is virtually grainless in Mic X. The description of the film in the freestyle catalog claimed that it was Ilford medical film and stated that it could be used for general photography with the warning about ghost images in bright light because of the lack of an antihalation layer and that the film had extremely fine grain.
Denise Libby

If it is an ILFORD film, and it was 'medical' and not surveillance film It could only have been Cineradiography film then...

Simon. ILFORD Photo / HARMAN technology Limited :

Simon R Galley said:

If it is an ILFORD film, and it was 'medical' and not surveillance film It could only have been Cineradiography film then...

Simon. ILFORD Photo / HARMAN technology Limited :

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Shouldn't it be one of these then, as mentioned on the Ilford History and Chronology site?:

http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Ilford/X_Ray_ads.html

See all the images of boxes and descriptions of Ilford medical (X-ray) film on that page...

Marco

We stopped making X-Ray film of all types over 35 years ago, I understood this film to be 'about' 20 years old.

Kind Regards Simon. ILFORD Photo / HARMAN technology Limited :