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Author Topic: Agfa date codes? Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-13-2005 04:33 PM                     Does anyone know how to decipher the edge markings on an agfa print to determine the year of the print?  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-14-2005 02:00 PM                        Unlike Kodak, Agfa-Gevaert has not freely shared that information. http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/keykodeid.jhtml?id=0.1.4.11.14&lc=en http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/h1/identificationP.shtml#135427  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 02-15-2005 05:14 PM                     Strange, any clue why?  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 02-16-2005 02:42 AM                        Did they ever encode that information to begin with? Most of the codes I've seen on Agfa elements just look like batch numbers to me.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-17-2005 02:05 AM                       I'm still trying to figure out how to pronounce "Gevaert". Anyone? I've always wondered...  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 02-17-2005 02:10 AM                     Over here it always seems to be Gave-art; but I'm not sure if that's actually correct.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 02-17-2005 11:20 AM                       Thanks, Stephen! I've asked that question several times over the years, and you're the only one who has ever responded.  |  IP: Logged System Notices Forum Watchdog / Soup Nazi Posts: 215 Registered: Apr 2004 posted 05-02-2008 10:58 AM                 It has been 1169 days since the last post.  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-02-2008 10:58 AM                        Dredging this up from ancient history to ask the same question. I have a silent serial chapter from 1922 that was reprinted on safety film with a sound track on Agfa B&W stock. Is there any way to know the date of the Agfa stock? Anything new on this?  |  IP: Logged Kris Dirix Film Handler Posts: 54 From: Antwerp / Belguim Registered: Feb 2005 posted 05-05-2008 04:35 AM                     Jim, what's the edge number ?  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-05-2008 10:42 PM                        "AGFA GEVAERT S 1907 61 AGFA GEVAERT S 131" and then repeats.  |  IP: Logged Kris Dirix Film Handler Posts: 54 From: Antwerp / Belguim Registered: Feb 2005 posted 05-08-2008 03:51 AM                     The stock should be dated either 1977 or 1986 Regards.  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 05-08-2008 07:09 AM                        Thanks Kris. Now I just have to figure out why an obscure serial chapter of a title that's not listed on the IMDB as a serial was struck 55 or more years after it was made.  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 05-08-2008 08:41 AM                       quote: Kris Dirix The stock should be dated either 1977 or 1986 So, how did you determine this?  |  IP: Logged Paul H. Rayton Expert Film Handler Posts: 210 From: Los Angeles, CA , USA Registered: Aug 2003 posted 05-08-2008 09:24 PM                    Yeah, Kris -- Please share with us the date code information, if any. Many of us who work with older prints (theatres and archivists) are constantly trying to figure out the age(s) of the prints we work with, for numerous reasons. Kodak has long made available their date codings, and the duPont codes are available, too. Fuji (until recently) dated their stocks openly. But Agfa's been a bit cagey, and we (I) don't know why. What's to hide? So, please help us!!!  |  IP: Logged

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