Kodak - How Film is Made - 1958 - kf5czo.blogspot.com
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- Kodak 1958 factory film
This fascinating 1958 documentary titled, "How Film is Made", that documents the production process and birth of photographic and cinematic film, was initially discovered as part of a heritage in the Netherlands. Although its exact source and purpose are as of yet still unknown, it may have been an instructional film for new employees at Kodak's factories world wide, and was probably used as a promotional film for the general public as well. The original 16mm film came into the hands of Frank Bruinsma of the Super 8 Reversal Lab in the Netherlands, who decided to have it digitized in conjunction with CINECO and the help of others, and make it available on the internet.
After a member of the Analog Photography Users Group (APUG) pointed out its availability, a call for a translation was made, as the originally American production was dubbed in Dutch, probably in the beginning of the '60s, and therefore the original English soundtrack lost. A joint effort was setup, including me, Ray Rogers, Denise and Louis Ross, and others. Frank Bruinsma was contacted, who was kind enough to share the digitized version of the film with the APUG community for the purpose of adding subtitles.
After much work, this is the result. We hope you will enjoy watching this historic document. Although modern day film factories still pretty much operate with the same basic processes, the current highly automated and computerized film factories would probably make it impossible to make a similar film at the present time, as much of the inner workings of the machinery is now hidden. And certainly, we would miss out on the lovely intricate details like the employees manually inspecting parts of the film for defects in (almost) complete darkness. Unfathomable in the light of today's high efficiency economies and societies...
Many thanks to Frank Bruinsma for making this film available, and to others who have contributed to this project!
The film can be watched in two versions:
- A low bandwidth one suited for people still using dial-up connections or low rated DSL or cable (less than about 1-1.5 Mbps). This version has a small image size and low bandwidth requirements (about 100 kbps). You may, however, still need some buffering time on dial-up modem of 56 kbps as the requirements are about twice that. Have some patience...
- A high bandwidth version suited for people on DSL, cable or wireless connections rated above about 1-1.5 Mbps. This version uses a nice big film size of 656x480 pixels and better sound.
Marco Boeringa
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That last line still rings true: "Shoot it now, while you still have the chance!"
Man, that is so true, gives me cold shivers down the back... How long will we still have it?
@@v-g-z3689 Film sales have skyrocketed since these comments
@@goldenhourkodak True! But with losses...
Incredible
I used to run a photo lab, and a Kodak tech rep once told me, "We know when we do things a certain way it works, but we don't always know why." In other words, one of the largest industrial firms in the world was practicing alchemy!
That's not alchemy, that's just ignorance.
@@RogerBarraud If you say so, but Kodak in their prime thought is was ignorance worth spending $1m a day in research funds on.
@@RogerBarraud On the contrary, how do you think we have learned new things in different fields over the years?
@@RogerBarraud Perfect, it is just ignorance.
How awarsome is this. Working blind for hours in complete darkness every day.
I wonder what happens with those beautiful machines
Awesome making film of Kodak Film :) (no pun intended)
I didn't know film making was such a Huge process. Makes me appreciate my photographs in my physical albums much more precious
whoa! this is really awesome! I love film and I still shoot film, but where is the safety in that factory?!?! bare hands, no respirators, that one man touching radioactive material with his bare hands! I'm glad I didn't work in a factory in the 50's
it was 50's before soy was invented!
Just wonderful, especially seeing the final product - VP620, completed. I shot a few rolls of that product myself.
I liked the music, too, almost certainly classical and likely PD.
Too bad the original English audio is missing
Also get a load of the workers dumping silver into a vat of nitric acid without wearing any glasses!
That was the 50’s for you. You didn’t wear protective equipment because you were a “real man”.
Amazing!
Very nice thank you!
Thank you
Super 👌
9:06 guy just dunks his unprotected hand into a bath of silver bromide and silver nitrate to take a sample. The balls on these guys
it's mostly water, clearly it's nothing major
Wow! Very impressive and informative. And on a grand scale.
it like an alien technology^^
Thanks Kodak, now I will take over your market to me.
God sacve the Film!
My film is 16 MM double perf. It's very hard to find it and I wish I could find a modern machine to convert single perf 1R to double perf 2R. Armed forces cameramen used black duffle bags to exchange the 53 feet of film in film magazines. You crawled inside with a Pyrex and a screwdriver. This is how films like Memphis Belle were mastered.
I wonder if they employed quite a few blind persons for certain sections in the process?
no blind people are all stupid.. fuck them all !
Blind people were often employed by photo labs to load the exposed film into the processing machines... the trouble was, the couldn't tell if they'd left the darkroom lights on!
@@livelongandprosper70 Are you serious? I presume you know "all blind people" and have given them intelligence tests? Because otherwise, your opinion is just bullshit, and it is, in fact, bullshit.
Yes - it is explained in Kodak”s print publication “Making Kodak Film” that they pioneered the employment of blind people as a special qualification, for their comfort in operating complex and dangerous machinery in total darkness.
How many of you are here after the Veritasium video?
Sadly kodak park is now less than half that size shown in the video. The emulsion and roller buildings still exist as seen from Ridge road, and the film division still puts out an extremely limited amount of film at the elm grove location. Kodak park to my knowledge no longer produces film.
With Perez out of the picture maybe kodak will return to its former glory.
They still make film. And after years of shrinking, the market for film is growing strong... you just can't get the same look with digital that you do with film (technically you can, but you're talking about messing with all sorts of settings to replicate specific chemical processes that influence the look)
iii film is much more prevalent in movie film photography nowadays than in still photography
@@punman5392 True, professional enthusiasts like Christopher Nolan still use film for their big budget films !
2020 film has no future
"sadly" lol, people move on ....... some professionals still use it for various results, but it's just analougue nostalgia now
Of course, the use of cotton bales in solvent pertains to the cellulose tri-acetate film base. Later, polyester, or “ESTAR” base was entirely polymer base, using no cellulose.
Is this why later films had more Brown shade and plastic feel ?
Is kinda interesting how plastic was made by cotton, but I didn't know polyester is made from non-cotton
Is there an English version?
14 tons a week?? I wonder if it would even be worth it to try and break down old film stock to recover the silver.
I've heard that when they develop film they do recycle the silver.
What language is the narrator speaking?
Dutch 😁
its funny how things become obsolete.there was a whole industry behind films.
Film still has a mystique about it, because Eastman Kodak was fundamentally practicing alchemy (see comment, above)! Things like whether the cattle, who get made into the gelatin that holds the emulsion to the acetate base, grazed on plants of the mustard family, actually affected the ISO of the film emulsion! Kodak was fanatical about vertical integration, owning herds and silver mines. I think the best explanation for their doom was that they were fundamentally a chemistry company for about a century, and they couldn't make the transition to making other products, or digital cameras, like Fuji has.
@@MalcolmBrenner so he was a bit batty then... sounds like the company had a mathmatical distrust and an analougue love... a bit of a fundamental science approach (maybe "alchemy" like you say).... no wonder they where so slow to develop digital cameras, i remeber being really shocked waiting for kodak to enter the market and when they did their cameras where dreadful
Niederländisch oder? Kann ich verstehen.
That's an *awfully* heavy Welsh accent you have there, Owen...
;-)
hahahha
Kodak film is now kodak alaris :)
Hi Pioneerz450,
Kodak Alaris just sells the photographic film made by Eastman Kodak.
Nitrite film is very flammable so don’t do it