Composite duplicate negative

Composite Duplicate Negative (CDN) is a finegrain low contrast negative, including soundtrack, used for making release prints or viewing prints.

There were, once, original camera composite negatives that also suited this definition. Used mainly in Newsreel work, they are now uncommon.

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