👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird little squiggle – "…am… 0.3… – 0.7… .3...…" (…it looks a bit like a very confused semicolon and a very startled decimal point, frankly). That, my dear friend, is what we call an
AMC-LD16
.
Now, before you immediately start picturing a clandestine weapons systems, let’s unpack this. AMC-LD, according to the shadowy corners of late 20th and early 21st-century American intelligence circles (where it apparently spent most of its documented time – nobody quite knows exactly who was actually looking at these things, honestly!) refers to a Low-Density Photographic Material . Essentially, it was a type of incredibly sensitive photographic film. LD stands for Low-Density. This meant the film really struggled with overloads in very bright conditions, resulting in blurry, unusable negatives. Hence the designation "… 0...– 0......" as the exposure times and densities that were most reliably achievable. The AMC bit came from a decommissioned photographic development plant in, you guessed it, Scranton, Pennsylvania - hence AMC! ’AMC-LD16 was a systems failure of the worst kind—a beautiful, tragically grainy ghost of what could have been an unmistakeable moment. 0... 3... 7… 0... The whole thing is rather wonderfully obsolete
