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The INTERNATIONAL P H 0 T ( ) G RAPHER
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The Home of Kodak
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l Follow-Up of "Good Housekeeping in Train Load Lots," Published in the June Issue of International Photographer
HOW EASTMAN FILM IS MANUFACTURED
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ILLIONS own snapshot cameras . . . The motion picture industry consumes more than 200,000 miles of film annually. . . . An increasing number of home movie cameras are making fascinrecords of intimate familv life each year. . . . Por
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Along another thoroughfare Hanked by ivy-covered walls we catch a glimpse of an imposing structure that overlooks the main entrance to the Park. This, our guide answers, is the center of research for the Kodak organization. From here, we learn, has come the introduction of
home movies, of Kodacolor, of film that can take pictures from hundreds of miles away ; here, too, have been discovered many hidden complexities of photographic sensitivity ; and here, as well, numerous patient studies have been made that have given photograph} and the motion picture art a scope undreamed of when they first came into being. The Kodak Research Labora
Before George Eastman began his work of simplification, the photographer had to carry a portable darkroom and sensitize his own glass plates just before he took a picture.
trait and commercial photographers must be supplied with, not one type of film and paper, but scores, to meet the various exacting needs of their work. . . . Medical and dental radiologists diagnosing the infirmities of human anatomies and teeth, x-ray technicians examining the soundness of metals, building materials, and aeroplane parts, use a huge annual acreage of their recording medium. . . . Photo-engravers, bankers, astronomers, aviators, draftsmen, detectives, engineers, microscopists — a great variety of professions and activities have need for the photo-sensitive materials that Kodak Park supplies.
When we visit Kodak Park we are inspecting a manufactory that is unique.
Let us take one of the passenger busses that depart every quarter hour on routes carrying those with business, and perhaps carrying us as visitors, to the factories and offices of this expansive area. The busses are a necessity, for there is a mile and a half of distance from the entrance gate to the remote buildings of the many that /it into the scheme of this city of well seasoned brick and ivy.
Down one street we observe a solid mascnary wall with no window breaking its expanse. Behind it, we are informed, great, white machines with many precise moving parts are turning in dim light or none, coating the transparent, flexible film base with the "emulsion" that is sensitive to light and to visual images.
The famous twin chimneys of Kodak Park — landmarks that give dominating
evidence of the tremendous power, heating, and refrigeration systems that
consume 700 tons of coal daily.
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