8mm Forum: Dwayne and Kodachrome on TV (L@@K)

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Posted by Winbert Hutahaean (Member # 58) on October 15, 2009, 10:25 AM:

This is a cross-posting from filmshooting.com and Bart Smith posted this link there.

Parsons business is last processor of KodaChrome on TV

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It is a shame that Kodachrome was stopped, WHY???

Posted by Bill Brandenstein (Member # 892) on October 15, 2009, 11:42 AM:

Thank you for the link -- a great find. I have known of far too many victims of changing technology over the years, including a dear family friend through full bankruptcy and so forth, because film or tape is no longer used. Some amazing engineering down the drain. So I feel for the lady who wonders if she'll have a job after 2010.

Why? Well, ask Kodak, I suppose, but my guess is that they were losing money on the Kodachrome product line for a very long time.

Did you notice the processing line in the video shots with super 8 film running through 35mm rollers? Looks like Dwayne's does all Kodachrome on the same line (just not at the same time :-) ). Also another shot of uncut slide film looked B&W, wondering if that's what it looks like before running through the dye incorporation. Either that, or it's really bad Internet compression!

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