Hi,
First time posting here with a pretty niche question. I am a director putting together a documentary set in 1940s London. We want to shoot a lot of reenactment for the doc but in the style of some of the archive I have obtained. I was looking at shooting some stuff in a home movie sort of way with double 8 film so my first question is does anyone know a popular double 8 film that would have been used in the 1940s in Britain? Everyone talks about Kodachrome but I'd like black and white. I saw some footage of Super X that looks great. And then, what film could I find that has a similar resemblance? So far Fomapan R100 has caught my eye but any other suggestions would be appreciated.
Secondly, I need to know what sort of stock would be used for newsreels? I thought 16mm film was used for newsreels and so was guessing something like the old Ilford stock but after a bit of research it looks like maybe 35mm would have been used as well as it was not as expensive as it is today. What do people think would have bee used and how could I go about emulating this? If it was 35mm I probably would shoot on 16 anyway because I remember David Lowery talking about new 16 looking like old 35 on the DVD commentary for The Old Man & the Gun.
Would really appreciate any answers.
