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T It e I N T K R N A T I O N A L PHOTOGRAPH E K
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Good Housekeeping— in Trainload Lots
< A Tribute to Kodak and to the Immaculate)
"There is more to any industry than cogwheels and chemistry; than energy and engineering,
than money and markets."
(From The Solka Age, Published by Brown Co., Portland, Maine)
ITH these modest printed words, visitors at Kodak Park in Rochester, New York, are introduced to an industry in which machines and humans work together to produce the magics of photograph}. One sees projects and products almost literally "hewn from the future by research and farsighted planning," and stands in awe of the unbelievable orderliness and easy quiet with which this huge plant operates.
The Eastman Kodak Company's largest factory — composed of eighty buildings on four hundred acres of land — is unique in its extreme cleanliness on a large scale. The personnel of many thousands, immeasurable brain power, abundant resources are concerned in an unrelenting fight against the photographic industry's enemy — impurity. A speck of dirt too small to be seen, the slightest variation in temperature, a ray of light penetrating a darkened room might cause loss and trouble and, most important, a momentary deviation from the uniform quality of product that users of photographic materials have learned to count on.
This, then, is the story of a great industry largelv motivated by an extraordinary purpose — to avoid dirt or contamination in any form that could affect film or photographic paper.
Purity of raw materials is no more necessary to perfect photographic products than cleanliness of surroundings and a well-regulated manufacturing technique. Everything in the House of Kodak, therefore, is immaculately clean. Exhaustive testing of raw materials and of materials at every stage of manufacturing is a commonplace here.
The urge for purity begins with the surroundings of the plant, with the very air that lies over the buildings. It is found in the laundered clothing of workmen, in the frequent vacuum-cleaning of buildings, in the con