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It may be possible that the date is printed there but in most instances, it's a batch printing code that won't sense to anyone outside the printing shop.

I am guessing here but what you have could be a Julian date. In the Julian numbering system, the first day of each year (Jan 1) is assigned 1, the second day 2, and so on, until you reach Dec 31, which should be 365 - except for leap year, which would be 366.

So, 36 could be the 36th day of the year, or Feb 5th, and the 01 behind it 2001.

Julian dating is not as rare as you might think - it is used heavily in the military and gov't. So it is quite possible it is used on this camera.

But it is also possible it's just a processing code. No way to tell for sure.

Could be a film code but more than likely a code from the processor - who ever that was and when.

If it's possibly a film code first place I'd check would be Kodak.