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30 August 2019 at 12:04 am
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Keymaster
I imagine it depends what material the film is made from. Old celluloid films have a nasty habit of spontaneously combusting when they degrade. I’m not sure when films became safe, but I have a feeling cellulose acetate was still pretty common in the 70s, if not later still?