In a message dated 6/5/2008 4:39:45 P.M. Mountain Daylight Time,
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In my past, lived in a town where film was made and packaged in yellow
boxes. Part of the process involved human eye inspection of the emulsion
coating
as the film whizzed past in front of the inspector(s), prior to
cutting/spooling/foil wrap/packaging.
Late one summer during the early 1940's, random white deposits started to
appear on the unexposed emulsion, causing expensive rejection of valuable
film.
After much head scratching and high priced analyses, the deposit was
identified as NaCl, aka salt. No salt in the process, random shifts,
random times
during the workday, random distance from the edge of the moving film strip,
variable size of the deposit, etc. etc. etc.
Use of a hidden camera + film sensitive to very dim red light conditions
used in the inspection rooms to protect the unexposed emulsion finally
revealed
the culprit.
Clue 1: In the early '40s the USA was involved in WW2. With normal food
supply chains interrupted in favor of supplying the war effort, citizens were
directed to plant food around their homes in small gardens, aka 'Victory
Gardens'. Some even kept chickens in their garages. (As the only child in the family
at the time + being closest to the ground, I chosen to be Director of
Weeding, so got to know every square inch of the garden on a daily basis).
Clue 2: Late summer was harvest time for these mini-farms. Many citizens
brought the harvest directly into the kitchen, washed the dirt off the root
vegetables and ate some as a snack while awaiting a cooked dinner.
Clue 3: Some were so fond of said vegetables that they put them in their
lunch boxes to enjoy during the extended work day of the times.
And the cause, as determined by the monitoring camera: Inspectors randomly
reaching into the their lunch boxes for a snack-- in this case it was radishes-
holding it near their heads as they bent over the moving emulsion coated
film so they could salt it and eat it without taking their eyes off the film.
(Naturally it never happened when a supervisor entered the inspection chambers,
which is typical today- no ordinary citizen speeds up when they see the
police car behind them.)
Bill Kenyon
Global Centre Consulting
3336 Birmingham Drive
Fort Collins, CO 80526
Tel: 970.207.9586 Cell: 970.980.6373
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