Re: Plan 9 from Outer Space

David G. Bell wrote:
> I've sometimes wondered if the decay products of the dyes can be 
> distinguished, and measured, by some non-destructive process. Something 
> like scanning by carefully-tuned lasers would be a near-enough handwave.

> Since so much done in Hollywood now is in the digital domain, either all

> the way from the camera or by scanning film, cracking the problem for 
> such things as that 1950s Kodak colour emulsion could pay off.
> 
> If I remember right, it was only one of the dye layers that turned out 
> to vanish.

It wasn't the magenta layer. That's always the last to go. I'll guess 
it's the cyan (assuming a CMY color space instead of RGB, but, whatever).

Kip W