The Bowery - Yahoo Clubs - Chat about the Bowery Boys comedies. This is a new newsgroup/chat room where you can discuss the Bowery Boys, Dead End Kids and Eastside Kids! A Bowery Boys Website has a nice overview of all the series. Leo Gorcey Jr.'s website where you can get info on his book about him and his father: Me and the Dead End Kid.
Collodion is a flammable, syrupy solution of pyroxylin (a.k.a. nitrocellulose, cellulose nitrate, flash paper, and gun cotton) in ether and alcohol. There are two basic types: flexible; non-flexible. The flexible type is often used as a surgical dressing or to hold dressings in place.
The wet plate collodion process was still in use in the printing industry in the 1960s for line and tone work (mostly printed material involving black type against a white background) as for large work it was much cheaper than gelatin film.