Behind the Film - Inside the ILFORD factory

Delta 100 too Van Damme contrasty! Try FP4? Right-O!

Great video and narration! Thanks to the authors and all the people who makes this film!

I am curious how many faults the quality control person finds.

What goes into creating film is simply magic

Long live Ilford! God save the film photography!

Yo ilford
Gotta say your films are noice

Isn't it funny how film revival was de catalyst for the highest prices for every photographic in all the photographic history?





I almost feel like a cow.

I've been shooting with ILFORD film since 1980, the results are always amazing.

I have an extreme respect for Ilford. They have helped keep this industry running. I’m only 15 and I shoot both film and digital. That shows that you’ll really find love for film everywhere. I hope film will last.

My Grandfather used Ilford, my parents used Ilford, I am using Ilford (right know loaded with 3200), my little son knows the ilford. Name that never fails you. Love it for generations <3

Artists, not workers, each one. Now when I'll go to shot with a good Ortho plus 80 (my favorite) a little think will be to you all. People working for 30 years there warmth my heart, so unusual today...

Incredible to see the process of the film I use to capture some of my work, I have just recently started shooting on film again after a 17 year break. I am really enjoying it and soon will be developing my own rolls of film. Such a nice process also nice that companies like this still exist even in the age of digital cameras.

My favourite black & white films & papers. i used to process myself

Awesome & Thanks :)

What is the name of the piece of music that goes with this great film?

I loved this! Excellent documentary filmmaking!

What a fantastic video! It brings up memories from my childhood, shooting and developing films. It is touching to see the films are made by such hardworking and dedicated people, still the same people who made the rolls I used some 30+ years ago!

I remember working in the drawing office at Ilford Film in 1986, designing improvements to the film production line. One of the interesting projects, was designing and installing the two hydraulic cylinders on the accumulator, I think that is what was called. Just lying on the floor whilst it was going up and down, it was a little bit scary.

Wonderful, thank you very much for sharing!!

Note how the layers are put on with laminar flow. Without laminar flow they could not do it in one failed swoop like that and it is so awesome.

Давно интересовало, как же делают фотопленку

It’s interesting to see how differently the two remaining film making companies are responding to the big increase in demand for their products. I still pay pretty much the same price for a roll of HP5 as I did ten years ago. Can’t say the same for Portra 400… Full respect to the guys from the uk for not taking the piss out of us.

At a time when the true origin of many film products is unknown and brands are invented or revival of past glories with random prices, Ilford remains our true and only certainty for quality black and white film and paper.
Thank you for opening the doors of your legendary factory to us.
Keep it up!

Best film. Love this

Watching this I have an OM1n sat on my desk with PanF50 in and My OM10 loaded with XP2 Super. It's good to see that not all British manufactures have gone to the wall and these products are still available, I'm 69 and still get a kick out of developing my own film to scan and print. Long may it last.!

Muchas gracias a esta fabulosa fábrica en Inglaterra!
Que pasaría con nosotros los fotógrafos que nos gusta mucho trabajar con película, si no la siguieran fabricando.
Lastima que sea tan cara aquí en mi país México.
Aún así seguiré trabajando eternamente con la gran película que fábrica Ilford""
Saludos desde México....

Cool

What is the music called?

I shoot 35 mm film every week, always ilford of course, and now i brougth a medium format camera and soon i gonna shoot with it as well .

But why is most B&W film "overrated"?

Ilford - fantastic magic film!!!

Yay! Just bought my first roll of Ilford. Very very excited to start shooting

İlford film süper ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️👏👏👏👑🇹🇷❤️

thank you for manufacturing a great product

Thank you very much for this video!

Thanks Ilford crew for the wonderful work and keeping up with ramping global demand during this pandemic. Your film is the only one I've been able to reliably source during these times.

Just took your survey. Thank You for asking about our needs.

Very interesting film thank you it was nice to see how my favourite film is made.

I wonder how you survived the digital era. How? I think we’re now entering post-digital era and people start shooting film again

Wow! Didn’t know all this went into making your film. Excellent documentary! When I put my first roll of HP5 into my Canon T70 and had it developed and scanned, I was in B&W heaven - I’ll never go back! Thanks Ilford!!

May you long continue

Nice to have been able to see part of Room 14 again, the sketch on the wall was energising, as the last time I saw 14 was under construction was in 1983 at Mobberley in Cheshire, as I was going to relocate when it’s site at Brentwood in Essex was to be closed.

I’m a former employee of Ilford Films, and worked at it’s former Woodman Road factory, first at the Emulsion making block, then in the Pan Wash, having also worked in various warehouses sites at Brentwood, eventually moved the the Coating dept, not the Melters, mainly within the Reeling Chambers of Rooms 12 and 14, sometimes the Stockpoints, I also worked in Room 14.

Within Room 14 I worked in with the Stockpoint or Reeling chamber, even to this day, I can recall the noise of the massive drying bays, raw based films were hoisted over a skit in the wall from a warehouse on site into the Stockpoint in what was know as ‘White light’.

The reason why Room 14 was called ‘14’ was due to old coating machines at Brentwood, when I arrived in the middle of 1979, only rooms 12 and 13 were in operation, others closed before I arrived, as were used to store raw-based film from the makers.

Ilford Pan F and FP 3 were my favourite films in the Sixties.
A dozen of Ilford 9 x 12 cm glass plates I bought in 1965.

Wow. Now I know what I am putting in my camera. Thanks a lot and greetings from Germany.

Thanks to all the people at Ilford for making a great product.

Wonderful.

I've tried several different brands, but I always come back to Ilford. I'm curious how many of their employees are film photographers.

Kevin is the uncle you have to be proud of to have in your family. I’ve been using 120 since the early 2000, and I’m grateful to be a long time customer of Ilford. 3200 is my go to film as I prefer to pull it to 800-1600. :)