The Old Name

A film testing laboratory at a film factory in Wolfen on a dark winter morning, the tall windows still blue-black with lit factory blocks beyond, white light from fluorescent tubes over a long pale grey bench, on the bench a small folding carton, red-orange with a dark blue field framed in green and white and a small white sunburst at one side, every panel plain colour from edge to edge, its end flap open, beside it a small metal film cartridge and a strip of colour negative film with an orange base drawn across a glowing white light box, two hands in white cotton gloves holding the strip, a black loupe beside.