Re: animals in film
J. McArdle (mcardle@redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au)
Tue, 4 Jul 1995 13:47:03 +1000 (EST)
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> -> >Prefix once applied to certain photographic processes and materials --
> -> >eg., gelatino-bromide process, gelatino-chloride paper -- indicating the
> -> >employment of an emulsion of light-sensitive chemicals in gelatin. The
> -> >use of the prefix was more general at the time when gelatin emulsions
> -> >were replacing collodion for normal photography.
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> Talking about GELATIN, I read somewhere that the gelatin used by the
> film manufacturing industry has animal origin. Now I remember, it was
> in Pop.Photography (no, I don't buy it!!).
> Just never went thru my mind this use for animal's gel and thought to
> share it here for the benefit of those that like me didn't know that.
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> Ciao!
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> G.Penate
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> * 1st 2.00b #2045 *
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Yes, this is a big moral dilemma (and aren't there so many in photography!)
for us vegetarians! I don't know if G Penate is upset about the use of
rendered hoofs and horns in her/his film but it sure worries me!
A student here with a little more moral outrage than
myself made enquiries and found that the only (she was told) producer of film
on non-animal gelatin is Fuji. Their colour film emulsion is in a seaweed
derived gelatin - I suspect because this is an economic rather than ethical
consideration for them of course.
Regards,
James McArdle
j.mcardle@redgum.bendigo.latrobe.edu.au