35mm B/W Format Question

[plummerl]

I was helping a friend scan some of his family's B/W negatives from the 30's.

I was amazed at what I found. The base film is exactly 35mm in width, but has single edge perforation, one hole every 43mm. The image frame is 28mm x 41mm, which exceeds todays standard 35mm format (24mm x 36mm). The film is edge marked with Kodak Safety Film 7.

Anyone have any knowledge about this film and/or what it was used in? I had to use a 645 carrier to be able to scan the whole image. 😀

 

[Doug]

Sounds like the Kodak 828 Bantam film, introduced about 1935. It used a paper backing like most roll films. Still, it had a perforation on one side every 40mm or so...

 

[plummerl]

Sounds like the Kodak 828 Bantam film, introduced about 1935. It used a paper backing like most roll films. Still, it had a perforation on one side every 40mm or so...

Doug! Your amazing, that's it exactly. I'd never heard of 828 format, now I know. It's amazing that it was introduced after 135, with only eight exposures on a roll!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/828_film

 

[charjohncarter]

I remember an old lady would come to the photo store I worked in 1963. She would buy and have me load this film in her camera; it was 828 (I think the camera was a Bantam):

http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Kodak_Bantam

I also have a few slides (Kodachrome 828) in my collection from W. K. Amonette.

Doug, did you ever hear back from Keith?

 

[Doug]

^^ Likewise in 1965-66 I worked part-time in a camera shop in Rapid City, and I recall a cute Kodak Bantam Special (IIRC) camera with Art-Deco styling, and also note the store at one point had used Kodak Pony cameras one-each for 135 and 828 film.
I have not heard back from Keith, unfortunately.