Kodak axes Kodachrome after 74 years West London in 1949 The last slide Stops production of the iconic film

The Kodachrome film was born in 1935, and its heyday came in the 50s and 60s when it was favoured by photographers and film makers for its rich tones and vibrant colours. Many professionals feel its quality is missing from modern digital images. Kodak has announced that the production of this mythical film will be discontinued.

Sharbat Gula, Afghan Girl, at Nasir Bagh refugee camp near Peshawar, Pakistan, 1984. Cover of National Geographic Magazine in 1985 . Steve Mc Curry The world famous portrait of an Afghan refugee girl, was shot on Kodachrome by Photojournalist Steve McCurry's, and appeared on the cover of National Geographic in 1985.

At Kodak's request Steve McCurry will shoot one of the last rolls of Kodachrome film and the images will be donated to Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, N.Y.,which houses the world’s largest collection of photographic equipment.

Kodachrome was also popular for moviemaking, first in 8mm, and later with the Super 8 format, launched in 1985.

Abraham Zapruder used 8mm Kodachrome to film President Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas on November 22,1963. The scene was filmed with a Model 414 PD Bell&Howell Zoomatic Director Series Camera that operated via a spring-wound mechanism

Kodachrome Super 8 film, launched in 1965 and discontinued in June 2005, was easy to use, produced a good picture and was used even in television, and was easy to blow up to 16mm.

President Jacques Deray Films presented in Cannes (France), du 13 mai au 27 mai 1981 Le Miroir Vivant - Section parallèle - Director Quinzaine des réalisateurs – Directors’ Fortnight In 1981, with my wife Eunice Ann, we made a film in Super 8: “The Living Mirror” about the Belgian surrealist painter, Rene Magritte. The film was projected, with many other productions, in the Cannes Film Festival in France, -President Jacques Deray- in the section called “La Quinzaine des Realisateurs - Directors’ Fortnight”, from 13 to 17 th May. 1981 Kodachrome Super 8 projected at the Festival de Cannes in 1981 René Magritte

Eunice Norbert Magritte

The challenge of this animation film was to make Magritte’s stone birds fly

KODACHROME - PAUL SIMON (1973) When I think back On all the crap I learned in high school It’s a wonder I can think at all And though my lack of education Hasn’t hurt me none I can read the writing on the wall There is even a song, created in 1973 by Paul Simon, dedicated to the joy of Kodachrome. Video at the end of this show!

If you took all the girls I knew When I was single And brought them all together for one night I know they’d never match My sweet imagination And everything looks worse in black and white

Kodachrome They give us those nice bright colors They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the worlds a sunny day, oh yeah I got a Nikon camera I love to take a photograph So mama dont take my Kodachrome away

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