[Leica] What film was used in Dali Atomicus?

[richard at richardmanphoto.com (Richard Man)]

I knew about that shoot story for awhile, but I found the NPR story tonight
and was just surprised that he said Tri-X was used.

Marty thinks it's probably Plus-X or XX, which makes more sense.

The assistant would rush to the darkroom and quickly developed and fixed
each neg and brought them out while they were still wet.



On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:58 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> Forget the film - that is a super story. I find it surprising, in
> these days of one second gratification, that Dali, his wife and cats
> were prepared to spend ad day on the shoot to take one shot!
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Richard Man
> <richard at richardmanphoto.com> wrote:
> > Dali Atomicus is the famous 1948 picture of Dali and cats and water by
> > Philippe Halsman
> >
> http://www.shootingfilm.net/2013/04/how-famous-dali-atomicus-photo-was-taken.html
> >
> > According to this interview with National Geographic Society photographer
> > Chris Rainier, Halsman used Tri-X film:
> > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4583051
> >
> > But according to Kodak, Tri-X wasn't invented until 1954!
> >
> http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Our_Company/History_of_Kodak/Milestones_-_chronology/1930-1959.htm
> >
> > and of course Tri-X TX400 is not available in sheet form (currently).
> >
> > So what did Halsman use?
> >
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