'Kodak, Don't Take My Kodachrome'Paul Simon sang about it. Film students shot on it.
Now, advocates are signing up to save Kodachrome, or at least its Super 8
motion-picture version, a 1965 technology that the Eastman Kodak Company would
very much like to do without.
Earlier this month, Kodak, based in Rochester, N.Y., delivered a shock to experimental, underground and just plain old-fashioned filmmakers when - one day after a May 8 celebration called Global Super 8 Day - it announced plans to discontinue its low-speed, fine-grained Kodachrome Super 8 film in favor of a new Ektachrome Super 8 product. Posted: Tue - May 31, 2005 at 09:15 AM WIR NewsStream by Piranha Daily News The Stream Previous Next |
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