Re: PHOTO-3D digest 1345

[P3D Bob Howard <bobh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RE:Kodachrome mounting for Stereo in the '50s (Patrick) question.

I think Patrick has heard too much about current mounting and not enough 
about '50s mounting!!! First it was all done by Kodak because in those 
days the processing was included with the film and you would be foolish 
to send it to anyone else. (This led to an anti-trust suit and the 
strange result that Kodak was the only one that couldn't give a mailer 
with the film.) I am not sure things were improved. 
Kodak did an excellent job mounting in cardboard. It was free too! Later 
after the lawsuit when you could buy mailers (and processing was NOT in 
the price of the film, you had a surcharge for stereo over the normal 
slide mounting except if you bought a special stereo film KX225???).
The Kodachrome of the time was varnished on the emulsion side after 
processing to protect the film. Once in a while a spec or piece of dust 
was embedded in the varnish. We called those Kodak bullets and tried to 
dig them out. Current processing in Dallas at Kodaluxe (although my last 
invoice said "Premium Kodak Processing") seems to be OK but the mounts 
are plain on both sides with no dating. They are done by machine with 
an operator..and it is not a simple as mounting slides as the images 
have to be transposed!! BobH


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