rsmithjr
Screenwriter
Odd perhaps but also quite accurate.Hollowbrook Drive-In said:Please elaborate on this odd statement (you don't think that Kodak, Fuji, et al didn't have have dedicated equipment for producing 16mm stock, negative, print and reversal?).
And, in the 1970's, when Kodak introduced 110 format pocket still cameras, you know what 110 film was?
Yup -- 16mm film with different perforations. The whole idea was to maximize the use of their 16mm film production capacity, so they designed a still camera around it.
Please see Richard W. Haines' "Techicolor Movies", pp. 30-31.
Double-rank printing used 35mm matrices and stock with two 16mm images. After printing, the two images were cut apart. The stock was perforated for 16mm use.
Single-rank used 16mm matrices.
Double-rank was considered better because their were fewer registration problems.
You are right that other companies had their negative, print, and reversal stock. That is not particularly relevant to IB Tech.