'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