Has anyone ever used Dynamoid Color Media?

derekleffew

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This one open to everyone, especially the oldsters, @JonCarter @RonHebbard @JChenault @STEVETERRY etc.

An astute member alerted me to this.

Dynamoid Color Media swatchbook.jpg


We know of Cinemoid, and Kliegl Bros. used the Dyna prefix. Can anyone tell from Century's address how old it is? It has a five digit zipcode, so that dates it no earlier than 1963.
 
This one open to everyone, especially the oldsters, @JonCarter @RonHebbard @JChenault @STEVETERRY etc.

An astute member alerted me to this.

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We know of Cinemoid, and Kliegl Bros. used the Dyna prefix. Can anyone tell from Century's address how old it is? It has a five digit zipcode, so that dates it no earlier than 1963.
@derekleffew Century Strand closed their Canadian shops and offices on Viscount Road sometime in the last century while Ms. Donna Appleton was their Canadian president; from memory, sometime in the mid 1990's. @Ron Foley do you recall Century's "Dynamoid" color media that @derekleffew is inquiring about in his post with a photo of a swatch book above??
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Ron Hebbard
 
As I remember my old Century catalogs from the mid-'50s (now long gone) had a NYC address--west 20s or something. I assume that the NJ address was after that. No, I've never used Dynamoid. Interestingly the order of the colors in the book in your photo -- and the colors themselves -- look EXACTLY like a Cinabex swatch book.
Cinabex book.JPG


We liked Cinabex because it came in larger sheets something like 28"x36" vs. gel's 21"x24" and was waterproof, altho it was hideously expensive. ($1.25/sheet vs. gel @ $0.20/sheet.) (Good ol' days.)
 
...Interestingly the order of the colors in the book in your photo -- and the colors themselves -- look EXACTLY like a Cinabex swatch book.
I suspect Cinabex, Dynamoid, (and later Lee Filters), were all copies of, or made by, Cinemoid.

In my picture, the first color looks like 501 Yellow, and the largest visible swatch looks like 553 Pale Salmon. The very pale Lav in between looks too light to be 536 though.
 
More grist for the mill, but in the Cinabex Wiki, @JonCarter mentions that it was carried by Paramount Cosmetics in NY. Google mapping the NJ address for the Dynamoid doesn't show a #3 but next door to #1 Entin Road is Paramount Cosmetics.
 
Paramou nt Cosmetics used to be at 242 W. 27th and Paramount Theatrical Supply at 32 W. 20th. Looks like everybody left for NJ. Manhattan rents too high, maybe?
 
Paramou nt Cosmetics used to be at 242 W. 27th and Paramount Theatrical Supply at 32 W. 20th. Looks like everybody left for NJ. Manhattan rents too high, maybe?
@JonCarter Sounds believable, Steve Terry moved the bulk of his operation to New Jersey.
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Ron Hebbard
 

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