B-type | National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

A way of denoting the emulsion position in 16mm film.

To identify a B-type on a winding bench the following formula is used:

Head to the right, perforations towards you and if the emulsion is upward then it is B-type.

Please note that this formula does not work for double perforation 16mm.

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