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permit the firm’s engineers to rest idly upon their laurels. Those who represent the firm on the Pacific Coast are continuing their efforts to discover just what additional types of film the practical men in the studios feel will he most desirable and useful. The engineering staff in Binghamton are continuing their unceasing efforts to translate those desires into the tangible form of improved film types. Three of the studios major needs have already been met and met supremely well — with Agfa Infra-Red. Agfa Supreme, and Agfa Ultra-Speed Pan. It can be taken for granted that the men who created these films are in the same way bending every effort to assure that the industry's other present and future needs will he met as brilliantly with products bearing the familiar Agfa diamond.
The Factory Behind the Film
But this purely historical sketch of the growth of the Agfa-Ansco Corporation cannot be closed without some record of the plant behind the product. \\ e have seen how the product itself has advanced from the Daguerreotype days when, as Daguerre slated a hundred years ago, “the time required to procure a photographic copy of a landscape” was “from seven to eight hours,” up to the present sensitivity of Agfa Ultra-Speed Pan which permits snapshot exposures with relatively slow' lenses under ordinary room lighting and. granting the same scene and lens-opening referred to by Daguerre would call for an exposure of less than I /200th second.
In the same way the Agfa-Ansco Corporation has, like many another typical American enterprise, grown from a liny upstairs shop on lower
A few of the people behind Agfa-Ansco products. Top — labeling cut film cartons ; center — inspection of cut film ; bottom — weighing one of the thousands of packages shipped daily.
Broadway, New York, to a huge factory in Binghamton, located in York State, about 200 miles from the metropolis. From the tiny staff of Edward Anthony’s first shop, the personnel has grown to comprise nearly 3000 typical American working men
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