Kodak’s decision to stop producing Kodachrome film in 2009 left a hole in people’s nostalgia-seeking hearts. This documentary short by Xander Robin takes us into Dwayne’s Photo, the last remaining lab to develop the coveted film.
DreamWorks was the studio first interested in the script about the dead Kodachrome film, but as it turns out, the director of the movie has a contract with Fox that means they must get a first look at any scripts he takes on.
Fo’ real. You’d think making a movie about Julian Assange would keep them busy for a while, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they shelved that after the intense intimidation the movie execs would’ve felt watching him shake his ass-ange in an Icelandic nightclub.
The world’s last photo lab using the rare chemicals Kodak’s Kodachrome film requires for developing ran out in December – but not before Jim DeNike rushed over 1580 rolls of film he had lying around. Guess what they were of?
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More than a decade before The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind gave colour motion pictures wide notoriety, Kodak was conducting Kodachrome tests. The result: a series vibrant, full colour moving portraits bursting out of 1922.
The very last roll of Kodachrome film produced by Eastman Kodak was processed recently. It was used by freelance photographer Steve McCurry to take photos of New York City. Steve specifically requested to be the person to use this final roll as he has a history with the product:
We get it, Associated Press, Paul Simon wrote a popular song with the word “Kodachrome” in it. But that’s only a tiny—if annoyingly catchy—part of the film’s tremendous legacy, which stretches back to 1935.
