internegative

[in-ter-neg-uh-tiv]

noun

Photography.

1. a color negative of a color transparency, made for purposes of duplication.

Word History and Origins

Origin of internegative¹

inter- + negative

Example Sentences

"He told me that in 1999 Warners had made interpositives from the original camera negative, which Vince Roth had very carefully repaired, but they never had the funding to take the next step to make an internegative and strike new prints."

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Instead, an intermediary print called an internegative — essentially, a duplicate of the final, color-corrected negative — would be used to strike the release prints that ended up in theaters.

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