« The Burnt Over District at its finest . . . Phrenology! | Main | There may always be a France . . . »
May 31, 2005
Kodak - End of the World for some
My world has already started to assimilate the idea that there will be no more Ektachrome, but the Super-8 world is protesting. The New York Times story is interesting. Passages like this may explain why Kodak is no longer the largest employer in Rochester:
"I just showed one of my films at a small gallery out in Williamsburg," said Stephanie Gray, a 33-year-old filmmaker from Queens. "It was actually the backroom of someone's apartment." Ms. Gray, who bought her Super 8 camera for $25 at a flea market, said the medium lends itself to a poetic, personal kind of filmmaking that cannot be achieved with digital filmmaking.Art's all well and good, but it doesn't keep folks employed in Upstate New York. In fact, art doesn't even make for a profit at the processing plants. An era has passed and people who debut their films in back rooms in apartments are not enough to keep a legacy product in distribution. All the art history departments of America weren't enough to save Ektachrome, and we feel much the same way about its color qualities as you'll read about Kodachrome Super-8.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 31, 2005 7:10 AM