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Author Topic: Kodak Year Code Dave Cutler Master Film Handler Posts: 277 From: Centennial, CO Registered: Jun 2000 posted 10-09-2000 03:23 PM                     I have a print of the original 'Dracula' and a print of the original 'Mummy' and was curious when they were printed. The year code is XOT, where T = triangle, on both prints. They are on B&W stock, and was just curious how old they were.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-09-2000 03:28 PM                        Sounds like they're 1996 prints. Since 1995, color print stock from Kodak has the year printed near the symbolic date code, but that may not be true of the B&W stocks; I don't remember offhand. I believe that Kodak's web site has a date-code chart somewhere. Mine was clipped out of an old issue of Big Reel.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 10-09-2000 03:35 PM                        Dave: Here is the date code decoder for film prior to 1991: http://www.kodak.com/country/US/en/motion/support/h1/identification.shtml#code ------------------ John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging Eastman Kodak Company Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419 Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA Tel: 716-477-5325 Fax: 716-722-7243 E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com  |  IP: Logged John Schulien Expert Film Handler Posts: 206 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-10-2000 04:17 PM                     There is one code missing from this film chart. I have a 16mm Kodak print with the date code circle-circle-circle. According to a date chart at another site, this was an alternate code used only in 1948.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-10-2000 04:39 PM                        1948 is probably correct; it's definitely the only possibility according to the chart that I have. I do not have a scanner, so the best I can provide is this ASCII version of the date code chart, in case anyone cares.  |  IP: Logged Christopher Seo Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 530 From: Los Angeles, CA Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-11-2000 02:46 AM                     Here's an easy-to-read, comprehensive one: http://www.16mmfilms.com/faqdatecode.html  |  IP: Logged John Schulien Expert Film Handler Posts: 206 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 10-11-2000 11:51 AM                     How amusing. Three separate web sources for the date code, and NONE of them are complete from 1916 through the present! I'm very sure that 1948 is correct for my film -- that's the year it (Canon City) was released. Ooh ... according to imdb, it was banned in Finland!  |  IP: Logged

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