Re: GR translation: the peculiar and slow-moving “Emulsion J,”

[jochen stremmel]

Yes, I would think so.


2013/7/19 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>

> V387.27-37  (P393.36-394.6)    That’s how Gerhardt von Göll is, anyway.
> Graciela knows the man: there are lines of liaison, sinister connections of
> blood and of wintering at Punta del Este, through Anilinas Alemanas, the IG
> branch in Buenos Aires, on through Spottbilligfilm AG in Berlin (another IG
> outlet) from whom von Göll used to get cut rates on most of his film stock,
> especially on the peculiar and slow-moving “Emulsion J,” invented by Laszlo
> Jamf, which somehow was able, even under ordinary daylight, to render the
> human skin transparent to a depth of half a millimeter, revealing the face
> just beneath the surface. This emulsion was used extensively in von Göll’s
> immortal Alpdrücken, and may even come to figure in Martín Fierro.
>
> Does "slow-moving" here mean "not selling well"?
>
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