Infrared Movies

[Andy Finney <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe that in the 1940s it was common to use infrared stock to shoot
'day for night', in other words shoot night scenes in the daytime. The dark
skies and strong clouds helped to give the illusion of moonlight. This
would have used 35mm double perf stock - so when did Kodak stop making
this? These days you shoot with tungsten stock and underexpose to get a
similar result for colour.

The US government treated the 16mm IR movie stock as military material and
so export was restricted ... this was in addition to the large minimum
order. I asked Kodak UK about ordering some in the early 1990s. They did
say they could tell me how to fake the look with normal stock. I should
have asked.

35mm movie stock has half the perforations of still stock which might make
it risky to run it through a movie camera. Alternatively you can shoot with
one of the widescreen formats that actually works that way aound (along the
film rather than down it) but I can't recall the format name.

Wasn't there an episode of the X-Files that was shot on B&W IR film? A
rather comic-book one about a mutant in the basement?

Regards

Andy Finney
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