nitrate film base

nitrate film base
  a highly-flammable kind of film base, composed of cellulose nitrate, used up until the late 1940s when it was then supplanted by acetate base.
  Example: deteriorating and powdery nitrate-based film, one of the most important reasons for film archival work and preservation.

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