From: 40 Frames (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2008 - 18:41:24 PST
Are these just show prints, or are you dealing with other elements, such as
negative, mag tracks,
optical neg, work prints, etc.?
I concur with Larry's comments...
Rolling through prints on a bench, allowing them to air out, can reduce the
VS smell. A-D strips
can provide you with information on the level of acidity. If detecting a
high level of acidity, you can
freeze the film until funding exists to strike an IN or IP.
As Larry also says, separate healthy prints from the non-healthy film.
Also, plastic cans do become infected and spread VS to other films.
Lastly, store in a climate controlled and clean room, low temp, low
humidity. If storing in this way,
then vented inert plastic cans are the best.
-Alain
On 2/22/08, Larry Urbanski <email suppressed> wrote:
>
> Cleaning a film with a film cleaner, and airing the print,
> will in many cases reduce or even seem to alleviate a film's VS odor. This
> doesn't necessarily profess a cure...for if the print is again tightly
> canned the VS smell will occur again. I like to clean the VS print and let
> it air out of can for up to 6 months. This will slow the deterioration
> process. Storage in vented archival cans should follow this procedure.
> VS prints should be segregated from "healthy" prints.
>
> Larry
> Urbanski Film
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> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 3:10 PM
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> Subject: vinegar syndrome
>
> Hello Frameworkers --
>
> I'm in the process of cleaning and organizing all the 16mm student films
> in
> the archive here at the University of Iowa and I was wondering if anyone
> knew of ways one could slow the vinegar syndrome? Are there cleaners out
> there that work? Are there special ways to store the film that slow the
> process?
>
> Thanks, guys!
>
> Yay for film!!!
>
> Charlotte Taylor
>
> MFA Candidate in Film/Video Production
> University of Iowa
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