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# I still don't FULLY understand
The lyrics are 'Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light'...film is sensitive to all light including red. It's photographic paper that can be exposed to red light...and...oh...I don't know. I think I'm taking it too seriously.

=EDIT=
Ah! Just noticed, this has already been pointed out by someone.

*sinks back into the shadows*
(, Mon 3 Oct 2005, 18:16, archived)
# as was also alluded to above:
we don't care if it's wrong or if it's right.
(, Mon 3 Oct 2005, 18:45, archived)
# Echo!
Yes, but as a farty little bum sniffing nagging tooth fairy I couldn't help but point it out, just as you couldn't help but point out what I already pointed out AGAIN.

Now be nice.
(, Mon 3 Oct 2005, 19:54, archived)
# red light outside darkroom means don't come in
if you don't put on the red light and someone opens the door when you're developing fillum it be fucked
(, Mon 3 Oct 2005, 21:33, archived)
# Colour and B&W are different..
Colour film is sensitive to red light - black and white film, is not (or at least not the B&W film I used to develop with my dad)
(, Wed 5 Oct 2005, 16:34, archived)
# sensitivity to red light is not the issue...
wether you're developing b&w or colour, if you don't "put on the red light" outside the darkroom someone might open the door, thus admitting the whole spectrum, so when sting told rox that she didn't have to put on the red light he wasn't referring to lighting in the darkroom by which to develop film, he was talking about the warning light outside the door - see?

I don't know why they don't just put a bloody lock on the door.
(, Wed 5 Oct 2005, 21:36, archived)