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5 unusual facts about Reversal film


Alfred Brousseau

Brousseau was a keen photographer and amassed a collection of in excess of 20,000 color 35mm transparencies recording the native flora of California.

Hardy Plant Society

An extensive library of slides covering a wide range of hardy plants is available to members on loan.

Illustrated song

Live performers (usually both a pianist and a vocalist) and music recordings were both used by different venues (vaudeville houses first and later in nickelodeons) to accompany still images projected from glass slides.

Rachel Victoria Roberts

She starred in a Ford Fiesta commercial in which she portrayed a secretary who drives to Paris to deliver a set of slides to her employer, and played numerous parts in Agony; a Grange Hill-themed agony slot which aired on the now defunct L!VE TV.

Reversal film

Leopold Godowsky, Jr. and Leopold Mannes, working with the Eastman Kodak Company, developed Kodachrome, the first commercially successful color film to use the subtractive method.



see also

100F

Fujichrome Provia 100F (RDP III), a professional color reversal film by Fujifilm

Fujichrome Velvia 100F (RVP 100F), a highly color-saturated professional color reversal film by Fujifilm