Allonge (film)

Decades ago, so-called allonges , also called colored film allonges , were used to identify the individual acts of a movie . They consist of colored blank film and serve to protect the beginning and end of the film and to identify nudes. A projectionist must be able to recognize at first glance which act he is currently facing and whether it is at the beginning or at the end.

The marking occurs for:

1st act beginning: red, end: red striped
2nd act beginning: blue, end: blue striped
3rd act beginning: green, end: green striped
4th act beginning: yellow, end: yellow striped
5th act beginning: purple , End: violet striped
6th act beginning: white, end: white striped
from the 7th act (if available): blank film labeled

Allongen at cine film

Here you are mostly dealing with one-act films. Another system has prevailed:

Start of film: green, end of film: red

Such alloys are common for normal 8, super 8 and 16 mm. With 16 mm, however, the usual system for 35 mm can also be used, with multi-act films mostly consisting of only two acts, rarely three. Since the two labeling systems are not compatible, a projectionist must first determine which system he is dealing with. Therefore, the following alternative labeling is sometimes used here:

1st act beginning: green (not conforming to standards), possibly labeled, end: red striped
2nd act beginning: blue, end: blue striped
3rd act (if available) beginning: green, possibly labeled, end: green striped

Since the Allonge is also used to thread the projector into the projector at the beginning of a 16 mm film and the most common devices with automatic threading cause a high level of wear and tear, their length should be at least 1.5 m. It has to be renewed every now and then when checking copies. The same applies to 8 mm films.