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Topic: Happy Birthday George Eastman
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Ron Yost
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From: Paso Robles, CA
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 07-14-2004 02:51 PM
1932 was also the year of introduction for Eastman's 3-color (strip) film stocks to be used in the gorgeous Kalmus I.B. Technicolor© process. The stocks were not color, of course, but B&W.
(It also meant the beginning of the studios having to deal with Natalie Kalmus ... a biatch of the first-order, by all accounts ... but that's another story.) ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I don't know how much direct involvement Mr. Eastman had with these stocks and processes, since it was toward the end of his life, but at least he was alive when it was happening.
Anyway, the now-red pre-SP and LPP Eastman stocks -did- serve their purpose, at the time ... providing a much cheaper alternative to I.B. Technicolor© for the studios, which they wanted badly. (Yes, I know, SP hasn't held up very well, either, though I have one 16mm SP short with very nice color.
So, happy birthday to a great man!
Ron Yost .. has a few beet reels hisownself.
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John Pytlak
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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000
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posted 07-14-2004 09:15 PM
quote: Stephen Furley
John, that picture of George Eastman and Thomas Edison is very well known; I believe it was taken in 1928, but I don't know the location, or the circumstances. Do you know anything about it?
http://www.nationaltrust.org/magazine/archives/arc_news/080703.htm
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Thomas Edison and George Eastman met publicly for the first and last time on July 30, 1928, to announce the invention of color movie film. (George Eastman House)
Seventy-five years ago, Thomas Edison and George Eastman, the founder of Kodak, collaborated to create color motion-picture film, a breakthrough 25 years in the making.
Eastman, who invented the film, and Edison, who fashioned the camera, announced the breakthrough at a press conference in the garden of Eastman's Rochester mansion. They treated guests to a glimpse of the first Kodacolor movie: images of a goldfish and a parrot—and, later, to a film of the guests themselves, shot earlier that day.
The George Eastman House threw a party of its own last week. Two hundred people attended the re-enactment of the 1928 "Kodacolor Party" at the Eastman House, a 50-room colonial revival that owns 400,000 historic photographs and negatives and 25,000 movies
I believe the "Kodacolor" being introduced was the lenticular Kodacolor intended for 16mm color motion pictures.
quote: Ron Yost
Anyway, the now-red pre-SP and LPP Eastman stocks -did- serve their purpose, at the time ... providing a much cheaper alternative to I.B. Technicolor© for the studios, which they wanted badly. (Yes, I know, SP hasn't held up very well, either, though I have one 16mm SP short with very nice color.
Film edgemarked "SP" was 5383, the first film for the hotter ECP-2 "short process", introduced in 1974. It did NOT yet have the improved dye stability.
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