Back in my days of film photography the "cross process effect" was fairly common with the more "arty" shooters. The effect was reasonably easy to produce. You simply developed your colour film in the wrong chemicals.
I'm sure a number of times this happened by accident but it became common practice to do it just for the effect. You shot a roll of normal colour negative film (C41 process) and developed it in colour slide chemicals (E6 process) or the other way around. Some purists worked out the tweaks of the films ISO and developing times for better results, but it still worked anyway.
The process did have one minor drawback in that the results were a bit unpredictable, and it was best to do the developing your self at home as many labs had a dicky fit if you "slipped" a film through the wrong process without asking them (some photographers would swop the film cannisters to fool the lab)
This was also a popular trick with another film that had been designed for the movie cameras and sold in bulk rolls which were cut down and put into old cannisters to save money, the problem with this film was it had a special anti hallation backing that came off during development and knacked the developer. This made labs and other photographers using that lab the same day VERY UNHAPPY as their films were usually buggered.
This cross process effect is done via Photoshop but it fairly typical of the effect, although it varied a LOT.
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