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Old Jul 20, 2010 | 3:48 pm
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Originally Posted by essxjay
Could you elaborate? The imagination boggles at the notion of a film so volatile it would be classified as dangerous.
I've seen it burn. I once found some 1930's era 35 mm nitrate negatives in a strip that still had the leaders attached and got a few inches to safely "test".

OMG! That stuff is Satan's love child from the mating of flash paper and gasoline. It's worse than burning modern smokeless cartridge propellant. An 18 inch diameter reel of motion picture film going up is a terrifying thought.

Nitrate film deserves every bit of it's reputation as really really nasty stuff. It's wicked.
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