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Film & emulsion

Three-strip prints, reversal stock and home-movie reels.

Bonfire sparks at night on grainy Super 8 home-movie film — Super 8
Bonfire sparks at night on grainy Super 8 home-movie film — Original
OriginalSuper 8
Super 8 · 1973Super 8 reel — warm grain, gate weave, halation.
A scarlet macaw in saturated three-strip Technicolor — Technicolor
A scarlet macaw in saturated three-strip Technicolor — Original
OriginalTechnicolor
Technicolor · 1955Three-strip print — saturated, deep blacks.
A chrome car grille on warm Kodachrome reversal stock — Kodachrome
A chrome car grille on warm Kodachrome reversal stock — Original
OriginalKodachrome
Kodachrome · 1965Reversal stock — rich reds and fine grain.

Videotape

Clean masters worn down to quad reels and camcorder cassettes.

An orange facade on 2-inch quadruplex videotape — 2-inch Quad
An orange facade on 2-inch quadruplex videotape — Original
Original2-inch Quad
2-inch Quad · 1962Early videotape — banding and quadruplex instability.
Neon reflected in a rain puddle on worn VHS tape — VHS
Neon reflected in a rain puddle on worn VHS tape — Original
OriginalVHS
VHS · 1987Late-80s tape: tracking, dropout, chroma bleed.
A circular concrete facade on a Hi8 camcorder — Hi8
A circular concrete facade on a Hi8 camcorder — Original
OriginalHi8
Hi8 · 1991Hi8 camcorder — soft tape with chroma noise.

Tube & glass

Pristine frames re-scanned onto living-room, studio and arcade glass.

A close-up portrait glowing through a consumer CRT's shadow mask — Consumer CRT
A close-up portrait glowing through a consumer CRT's shadow mask — Original
OriginalConsumer CRT
Consumer CRT · 1975Living-room tube — soft scanlines, gentle bloom.
A neon-lit portrait on a studio PVM's tight aperture grille — PVM / BVM
A neon-lit portrait on a studio PVM's tight aperture grille — Original
OriginalPVM / BVM
PVM / BVM · 1985Studio reference monitor — tight scanlines, rich phosphor.
A Street Fighter II cabinet re-lit through a coin-op slot mask — Arcade
A Street Fighter II cabinet re-lit through a coin-op slot mask — Original
OriginalArcade
Arcade · 1983Coin-op monitor — slot mask and heavy bloom.

The vanished decades

Before colour: nitrate newsreel, silent stock and kinescope.

Glowing campfire embers reduced to silent-era black and white — Silent
Glowing campfire embers reduced to silent-era black and white — Original
OriginalSilent
Silent · 1925Silent era — orthochromatic contrast, scratches and flicker.
A chrome car grille as a high-contrast nitrate newsreel — Nitrate
A chrome car grille as a high-contrast nitrate newsreel — Original
OriginalNitrate
Nitrate · 1935Nitrate newsreel — high-contrast B&W, dust and decay.
A 1950s car's tailfins filmed off a screen as a 16mm kinescope — Kinescope
A 1950s car's tailfins filmed off a screen as a 16mm kinescope — Original
OriginalKinescope
Kinescope · 194816mm film of a live broadcast — soft and grainy.

Camcorder to handset

Consumer tape, the first digital camcorders and the first phone cameras.

A red dog on muted Video8 8mm camcorder tape — Video8
A red dog on muted Video8 8mm camcorder tape — Original
OriginalVideo8
Video8 · 1988Video8 camcorder — soft 8mm analog video, muted colour and tape noise.
A red-and-blue neon portrait on soft VHS-C camcorder tape — VHS-C
A red-and-blue neon portrait on soft VHS-C camcorder tape — Original
OriginalVHS-C
VHS-C · 1993Compact VHS-C camcorder tape — soft, noisy consumer 1990s video.
A mountain landscape on an early HDV camcorder, sharp but MPEG-2 blocky — HDV
A mountain landscape on an early HDV camcorder, sharp but MPEG-2 blocky — Original
OriginalHDV
HDV · 2005Early HDV camcorder — sharp HD with MPEG-2 compression.
A portrait from a 2012 early smartphone camera, soft and compressed — Early Smartphone
A portrait from a 2012 early smartphone camera, soft and compressed — Original
OriginalEarly Smartphone
Early Smartphone · 2012An early phone-camera look — compressed, soft, slightly washed.
A train window view on a MiniDV camcorder, with period date/time burn-in — MiniDV
A train window view on a MiniDV camcorder, with period date/time burn-in — Original
OriginalMiniDV
MiniDV · 2002MiniDV camcorder — clean digital tape with on-screen date/time burn-in.
A window-light portrait on a 2008 iPhone 3G's vertical video — iPhone 3G
A window-light portrait on a 2008 iPhone 3G's vertical video — Original
OriginaliPhone 3G
iPhone 3G · 2008An iPhone 3G's vertical video — soft, low-res early smartphone capture.

After dark

Colour scenes swallowed by intensifier green and doorbell IR.

Neon reflected in a rain puddle through image-intensifier night vision — Night Vision
Neon reflected in a rain puddle through image-intensifier night vision — Original
OriginalNight Vision
Night Vision · 1998Image-intensifier green, bloom and sensor grain.
A courier at the door caught on IR security-camera footage — Night-IR
A courier at the door caught on IR security-camera footage — Original
OriginalNight-IR
Night-IR · 2015IR-illuminated smart-doorbell footage — floodlight blow-out and grain.

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