New Fuji, Agfa, and Kodak color print and transparency films reflect advances in chemical technology: the shaping of silver halide crystals to obtain greater surface area for increased speed, the formulation of more efficient color couplers to make possible thinner emulsion layers (limit spread of light within layers), and the regulation of chemical processing by new acutance dyes and developer-inhibitor releasing (DIR) couplers that give sharper and finer grained images. See also <i>AATA</i> <b>Vol. 21, Abstract No. 13</b>, PARIS No. 74016 for more information on new films.