herein provides greatly improved adhesion of an overlying silver halide emulsion layer as compared to the poor adhesion that is obtained when a silver halide emulsion layer is coated directly over a vanadium pentoxide antistatic layer to obtain even further improvement in the adhesion of the silver halide emulsion layer a very thin gelatin layer can be interposed between the barrier layer and the silver halide emulsion layer a suitable dry weight coverage for such a thin gelatin layer is about 80 milligrams per square meter an aqueous antistatic formulation comprised of 0 025 weight percent silver doped vanadium pentoxide 0 025 weight percent of a terpolymer latex of acrylonitrile vinylidene chloride and acrylic acid and 0 01 weight percent of nonionic surfactant was coated with a doctor blade onto a polyethylene terephthalate film support that had been rubbed with a terpolymer latex of acrylonitrile vinylidene chloride and acrylic acid the coating was dried for 5 minutes at 100 u00b0 c to form an antistatic layer with a dry weight of approximately 6 milligrams per square meter a variety of latex polymers was prepared by emulsion polymerization techniques using a nonionic surfactant and a cationic initiator from comonomers identified as follows an aqueous formulation containing about 3 weight percent of the latex polymer 0 01 weight percent of nonionic surfactant and an amount of gelatin as indicated below was coated over the antistatic layer and then dried for 5 minutes at 100 u00b0.