Does anyone remember a film brand named Parutz / Paruz / Par...?

[didotcicero]

My grandfather was a photographer who apparently worked for the Ciba-company in Germany in the fifties and sixties.

I'm not shure what his job was but it had something to do with a film brand called something like Parutz. Obviously this brand no longer exists.

He took photo's of my mother for promotional purposes. I'd like to know more about this brand. Maybe someone still has a brochure or something.

 

[Uwe_Nds]

The company was called Perutz.
Here's an article about the founder.

Hope that helped.

Best regards,
Uwe

 

[didotcicero]

That helped, thanks!

 

[john_s]

I remember Perutz transparency film in the 1960s. I still have some slides I took with it. The colours were cool and pastel. I was recently surprised to see Perutz film for sale in my local pharmacy (Melbourne, Australia). I didn't take much notice, but I might have a closer look, out of curiosity. I don't take slides since Kodachrome vanished from here.

 

[Socke]

I used to have a lot of Perutz B/W negatives from my father. But that was good old inflameable film and is now in cooled storage in a bunker in a museum

All Perutz film bought up to 1956 should be treated like an explosive, it is most probably nitrocellulose based. That's the same stuff as smokeless powder!

 

[Dfin]

Perutz slide film was readily available here in Sydney Australia all through the 1970`s. I remember buyng some slide film in a dept. store in Germany, whilst touring around Europe in 1978. Haven`t looked at them in ages, I can feel a slide night coming on.

 

[jesse1dog]

I loved the pastel shades of Perutz slide film.
There was one problem I had though - put it in a slide projector and the colours changed before your very eyes! For some reason I think it must have absorbed moisture in storage and then dried out in projection. If it only had done this OK but it reverted back again in storage.
I think I reverted to Ferraniacolor!

 

[didotcicero]

I used to have a lot of Perutz B/W negatives from my father. But that was good old inflameable film and is now in cooled storage in a bunker in a museum

All Perutz film bought up to 1956 should be treated like an explosive, it is most probably nitrocellulose based. That's the same stuff as smokeless powder!

This is very useful info, since I heard there are quite some negatives left... I've passed on this info.

 

[didotcicero]

I used to have a lot of Perutz B/W negatives from my father. But that was good old inflameable film and is now in cooled storage in a bunker in a museum

All Perutz film bought up to 1956 should be treated like an explosive, it is most probably nitrocellulose based. That's the same stuff as smokeless powder!

Is the name Perutz on the negatives like it is on modern negatives (e.g. Kodak/Ilford/Fuji)?

 

[nikbensch]

Perutz also manufactured films and papers for private brands. After the takeover by Agfa-Gevaert in 1964 the brand Perutz still existed for a few years and then disappeared. Later, the Perutz factory in Munich was used for the production of magnetic tapes by Emtec which was a company that was generated by a merger of the magnetic tape business units of Agfa and BASF.


Regards,

Niko

 

[Michaelta]

In 1978/9 you could still buy Perutz film (100ASA) both negative BW and colors - at least - in Pescara and Ancona, Italy. Perutz colors film were considered – among other – to be especially adequate for night long exposure. I used this film with quite good results I believe.

 

[bob cole]

Does anyone remember a film brand named Parutz / Paruz / Par...?

fyi, this jpeg is part of a Perutz ad on Ebay: