The operator is inspecting the film as it emerges from the drying chamber of the coating machine to catch any defect Film is inspected in both transmitted and reflected light. The coated film is wound up on a mandrel which is in the cabinet in...
Medical x-ray film is made in wide mill rolls at DuPont's new plant at Brevard, North Carolina. It is then slit into desired widths under safe light conditions on machine like this. A single mill roll will contain over a mile of film, slit rolls...
Motion picture film being slit into 35mm width under safe light conditions. The film has been coated with emulsion and died, but it still in the wide form in which it is processed through manufacturing operations at DuPont's Photo Products plant at...
Cans of movie film, ready for Hollywood and TV stations form appropriate background for this operator at the DuPont Photo Products Department plant at Parlin, New Jersey. She holds reel of exposed film. DuPont has made film at this plant since 1920.
Vault in which rolls of safety and nitrate film base are stored before they are sent to the coating area to receive emulsion. Uneven surface is not the film, but the cellophane used to protect the rolls.
This is the point where the film base receives its coating of light sensitive emulsion. The transparent base dips into a tray which is filled with emulsion and comes away with just the right thickness of emulsion coated on it. The point at which...
Inspections station of type used to inspect Photolith and X-ray film after film has been slit and chopped. Girl inspects film for flaws ad proper size, viewing it in reflected light form safe light.
DuPont's Pack industrial x-ray film is used in x-raying welds of huge cylinders in plant of Herrick L. Johnston, Inc. in Columbus, Ohio, manufacturer of ground handling equipment for major rocket and missile programs. The resulting radiographs are...
Molten polymer enters one end of this 300 foot long casting and stretching machine and emerges as a continuous sheet of Cronar polyester film base for medical x-ray film at DuPont's new Brevard, North Carolina plant. On its way through, the film...
At DuPont's new plant in Brevard, North Carolina an operator visually inspects polyester x-ray film base after it has been stretched and heat-set. The plant's equipment is the most modern in the world. Super cleanliness, rigid control of humidity...
Motion picture film being inspected as it is wound on large rolls at wind up end of casting machine at the DuPont Photo Products plant at Parlin, New Jersey.
At the Photo Products plant, Parlin, New Jersey an operator thread perforator, a machine used to punch sprocket holes in motion picture film, microfilm and some types of x-ray film. This operation is normally done under what are called safe light...
In the projection room at Parlin, New Jersey Photo Products Plant, an operator and projectionist examine DuPont motion picture film preparatory to projection. This is part of the inspection operation. DuPont is proud of an Oscar awarded by the...
Machine perforating motion picture film at the Parlin, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Photo Products Department. These perforations fit the sprockets on projectors.
Printed roll of motion picture film being inspected at the DuPont Company's plant at Parlin, New Jersey. DuPont entered the photographic field in 1912 when a modest experimental research program was started to develop plastic sheeting as a support...
Storage vault at the Parlin, New Jersey plant of the Photo Products Department, where rolls of film are kept before being sensitized. The uneven surface is the cellophane covering over the film.
Storage vault at the Parlin, New Jersey plant of the Photo Products Department, where rolls of film are kept before being sensitized. The uneven surface is the cellophane covering over the film.
One of the huge wheels on which base for DuPont cellulose acetate photographic film is formed at Parlin, New Jersey plant. The wheel shown here is in the shop for replating. In the casting house, liquid dope is flowed on the surface of the wheel....
Casting machine at DuPont's Photo Products plant at Parlin, New Jersey showing chamber in which cellulose acetate film base is treated and dried after being formed on casting wheel. Operators are observing film through strategically placed safety...
