16mm Gun Camera Refill film

[woods01]

I acquire a small stash of 16mm film labeled "gun camera refills" that I was hoping anyone had any info on. I assume it really was for WWII era gun cameras though it's expiry date is 1985.

Its Kodak Tri-X negative R.P. film 7207 EI 125. Its in 100ft rolls that are wound on very small, non-standard cores. It won't load into a bolex or a regular 16mm magazine on those cores and the film has Regular 8 perfs.

Anyone know more about this film?

[beamascope]

Check this out and read the description, might help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpUhiUYBZiM

[aj]

I acquire a small stash of 16mm film labeled "gun camera refills" that I was hoping anyone had any info on. I assume it really was for WWII era gun cameras though it's expiry date is 1985.

Its Kodak Tri-X negative R.P. film 7207 EI 125. Its in 100ft rolls that are wound on very small, non-standard cores. It won't load into a bolex or a regular 16mm magazine on those cores and the film has Regular 8 perfs.

Anyone know more about this film?

Unfortuneately there have been too many wars which needed recording of hits and misses after WWII. 1985 measn production 1980 or something. Digital was far away then.

Wittner had a 16mm film with one-sided S8 perfs as raw material for their aftermarkert S8 cartridges. Possibly your R8 is somehting like that?

Maybe you can run it one way in a R8 camera? Some cameras took 100ft rolls. Re-rolling should be worth while if you got it cheap. With DIY processing it is all homebrew.

[woods01]

That video link is promising. I bought the stuff cheap intending to wind it onto daylight spools and develop it myself.

The film is double perfed, which isn't surprising given its age. I found it interesting that it was perfed for R8. Maybe e a requirement for gun cameras? Perhaps the extra perfs were used to make the image more stable?