What film is this?

[GeneW]

I found this discarded film box littering the park where I walk. Where did our visitor come from? What film is this? It's bilingual -- English and something -- what's the other language? Is this a film we know by another name?

Just curious ...

Gene

 

[wlewisiii]

I think I remember that as Thai script from when I visited about 20 years ago. Probably Kodak Gold brought here by a tourist.

William

 

[momentcollector]

Cool nonetheless, I had a friend who collected film boxes mostly Kodak...but some fuji as well...pretty cool.

 

[fgianni]

Where did our visitor come from?

From a country without litter bins I guess. 😀

 

[GeneW]

From a country without litter bins I guess. 😀

LOL!

I picked it up from the lakeshore just to dispose of it and did a double take when I took a close look.

Thanks for helping place it, everyone. I've never seen that script before. Is the consensus that it's Thai? I can see how collecting film boxes could be interesting.

Gene

 

[Byuphoto]

Yep, Thai. spent a long long time there 30 years ago

 

[nomade]

I donno the language but color plus series iso 100,200 are films u can buy here in Egypt, actually a couple of days ago i bought a couple of films(200) to try them in my fed 3, i've never used a 200 film before(eiter 100 or 400) nothing in between, but i've never found this type in Canada, and i don't think their data sheets are available on kodak site as any other...The boxes here are suually made in France or England, so probably they also use it in europe

 

[Kevin]

No Sorry that is not Thai. I know because I read and write it. Korean maybe?

 

[kiev4a]

No Sorry that is not Thai. I know because I read and write it. Korean maybe?

Korean is a good bet

 

[oftheherd]

Korean is a good bet

Nope. Not Korean either. I can read (and write) it. Korean uses an alphabet so it can be read like any other alphabet. Just don't ask me to understand. If it is important, I can always ask my wife who does understand it. Not Vietnamese either, which uses a modified roman alphabet. Does not look like any Arabic or Persian I have seen.

Maybe Indonesia is a good bet. Anybody who can rule out Laotian or Indian dialects?

 

[pshinkaw]

Does it look like any of these in comparison?

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/alphabets.htm

-Paul

 

[GeneW]

Does it look like any of these in comparison?

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/alphabets.htm

-Paul

I think it's Glagolitic, from the 9th century. Man, Kodak's been around longer than I thought 😀

Gene

 

[thmk]

My bet is India.

Cheers
Thomas-Michael

 

[Doug]

THMK, I do believe you're right; used for several languages of India. I recognize the script as Devanagari -- the way the glyphs hang from a line is characteristic and unique -- and found an informative page on it here:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/devanagari.htm

 

[GeneW]

India would be a reasonable bet. We have a very large local population who have immigrated from India and Pakistan.

Gene

 

[Trius]

Gene: An Indian co-worker here confirmed it as Indian script. I'm awaiting any more detail she might have, i.e. any dialect, region, etc.

Trius

 

[GeneW]

Gene: An Indian co-worker here confirmed it as Indian script. I'm awaiting any more detail she might have, i.e. any dialect, region, etc.

Trius

Thanks Trius. It's been interesting to try to identify this script!

Gene

 

[nomade]

My italian teacher who's learning indian confirmed it's indian too..🙂

 

[Kevin]

Maybe once we pinpoint the location of purchase, we can track down this indian and force her to show us the pictures.

 

[ch1]

Last I heard, there are close to a billion folks in India. And then there's China too. If just a small fraction of these folks own film cameras - perhaps there's a future yet for film?

As long as the box says KODAK or FUJI and has ASA/DIN numbers - who cares what the rest of the writing is!