Experimental Emulsion Lab (old photo)

Emulsion · 05-18-2007, 09:03 PM

Attached is a photo of an experimental Emulsion Lab. Note the water bath, stirrers and dropper funnel.

If there is any interest in more emulsion related photos from this era I'll post more.

Photo Engineer · 05-18-2007, 10:06 PM

And where would this be???? And what era????

Note the propeller mixers. These are archaic. Any comments?

PE

Emulsion · 05-18-2007, 10:56 PM

Approx 1940's. Here is another photo of a plate coating machine.

rmazzullo · 05-19-2007, 07:18 AM

I would like to see more of these. Can you please tell us more details about these (and other) pictures?

Thanks,

Bob M.

Emulsion · 05-19-2007, 11:16 PM

They are from an old textbook on photography. Some of the photos credit Kodak, others have no credit so their origin is unknown.

rmazzullo · 05-19-2007, 11:37 PM

Can you please give details of the book you got these from? It might have some material worth looking into.

Thanks,

Bob M.

Emulsion · 05-20-2007, 07:06 AM

The book is called "The Science of Photography" by H.Baines (Fountain Press). It is a book written for the "layman" however I have found it useful.

I have seen that this book is available from Abebooks. (They have copies for approximately $3). Mine was published in the 50's.

Kino · 05-20-2007, 10:22 AM

1. Nitric Acid production

2. Emulsion Production

3. Slitting motion picture film

"Moving Pictures", Talbot, 1924.

(Sorry, I had to convert them to JPG for them to show up as thumbnails-- poor scans of yesteryear to boot!)

Photo Engineer · 05-20-2007, 10:26 AM

The middle picture, AFAIK, is a picture of buckets of raw silver nitrate crystals. It probably isn't emulsion due to the covers on the containers.

My, I have not seen these for years. Some of them are on the corridor walls at Kodak Park.

PE

Kino · 05-20-2007, 10:39 AM

PE,

Here are a few more, mainly dealing with base casting... Same book...