AWB - film
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A few ways. easiest was probably just picking the correct film - there are/were specific emulsions for tungsten lighting. Other than that, either a colour temperature meter or experience and filtration to correct at the taking stage. Finally, a certain amount of correction can be done at the printing stage.
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When I shot film (too long ago for my feeble memory) I used to use filters on the lens, iirc an A2 for tungsten lights
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@RalphC It depends on what sort of film your shooting and how its being handled - with colour transparency you need to use colour correction filters (as nobody makes Tungsten balanced slide film anymore) if you want to just project.
With colour negative on the other hand, in the days of traditional optical printing it was possible to colour correct 'white balance' from the negative by using filters at the printing stage, but few services did this routinely as it was quite lengthy and as so it was usually only done to the frames which needed it when they were re-printed (which also avoided the slight loss in film speed dictated by using a filter on the camera). These days hardly anywhere does optical printing, and instead use a hybrid film-digital approach - the negatives are scanned (with the necessary film colour profile to get results similar to optical printing), and colour/contrast adjustments (including white balance) are made to the scanned frames before they are outputted on the paper via a laser or LEDs.
With colour negative on the other hand, in the days of traditional optical printing it was possible to colour correct 'white balance' from the negative by using filters at the printing stage, but few services did this routinely as it was quite lengthy and as so it was usually only done to the frames which needed it when they were re-printed (which also avoided the slight loss in film speed dictated by using a filter on the camera). These days hardly anywhere does optical printing, and instead use a hybrid film-digital approach - the negatives are scanned (with the necessary film colour profile to get results similar to optical printing), and colour/contrast adjustments (including white balance) are made to the scanned frames before they are outputted on the paper via a laser or LEDs.
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It's also worth mentioning that most people never shot in tungsten light, as the fastest film bought routinely was 400, with the occasional roll of 800 for people who really wanted to experiment. So the more accurate answer is 'we used flash indoors'.