Richard Balzer Collection at The Academy Museum

 I visited the "Path To Cinema" exhibit at The Academy Of Motion Pictures Museum in Los Angeles.  Dick Balzer was a well known member of The Magic Lantern Society and was both a collector and performer. 

Much of Richard's collection can be seen in this YouTube video. 

Although Richard passed away in 2017, his collection was donated by his wife Patricia Bellinger to the Academy Museum. 

The exhibit had a variety of different lanterns spanning multiple types and styles. 

There was also a good display of hand painted Magic Lantern slides. 

Besides the lanterns and slides, there was a good display of other entertainment technologies. 

There was also some original literature and posters. 

One of the walls had a display of several slides being performed.  There was no narration, just a demonstration of the slides, but it still did a pretty good job of showing what the capabilities of the media. 

Art

Phantasmagoria

Story

Travel

Science

The exhibit is being retired and put back into storage on March 12, 2024 so make sure to see it before it goes away.  

A Guide To Kodak Safelights

All safelight photos are from specimens in my personal collection

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Number	Color	Picture	Usage
OA	Greenish Yellow	N/A	Black and White contact and duplicating materials, Projection Films.
OC	Light Amber	N/A	Contact and enlarging papers. TRANSLITE Film 5561.
OO	Light Yellow	N/A	Used for flashing halftones through a KODAK Contact Screen to control contrast.
No. 1	Red	KODAK No. 1	Blue-sensitive materials, most phototypesetting materials, KODAGRAPH projection, and some LINAGRAPH Papers.
No. 1A	Light Red	KODAK No. 1A	Slow orthochromatic materials, KODALITH and KODAGRPAH Orthochromatic Materials, High Resolution Plates
No. 2	Dark Red	KODAK No. 2	Fast orthochromatic materials, some green-sensitive x-ray films, EKTALINE Papers, Orthochromatic LINAGRPAH Papers
No. 3	Dark Green	N/A	Some panchromatic materials
No. 6B	Brown	N/A	INDUSTREX Films and Papers
No. 7	Green	N/A	Some black and white infrared materials.
No. 8	Dark Yellow	N/A	Some EASTMAN Color Print and Intermediate Films.
No. 10	Dark Amber	N/A	RESISTO Rapid Pan Paper, VERICOLOR Slide FILM 5072, VERICOLOR Print Film 4111. PANALURE Portait Papers
No. 11	Appears opaque but transmits infared	N/A	For use with KODAK Infrared Scope or similar inspection devices.
No. 13	Amber	KODAK No. 10	PANALURE, PALALURE II RC, PANALURE Portait, and RESISTO Rapid Pan Papers. EXTACOLOR 74 RC and 78 Papers.
No. ML-2	Light orange	N/A	Intraoral dental x-ray films.
No. GBX2		N/A	Blue-sensitive x-ray films except KODAK SB Films; most green-sensitive mediacal x-ray films except KODAK CFA, PF, Single-Coated Medial X-ray film-Green Sensitive, and KODAK PHOTOLURE FIlm-Green Senstive, which rquire KODKA Safelight Filter No. 2. KODAK SB Film.

 

Reference - Kodak Safelight Filters Published by Eastman Kodak 1978. Revised 12-1980.