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A NEWSPAP Vol. 8, No. 9 Copyright 1950 by Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y. March 2, 1950 J( odak Hit EK Shows Pony 135, By Short Processor at Parley Coal Supply Two new Kodak products will be introduced this month. They As KODAKERY goes to press, are the Kodak Continuous Paper Processor, Model 2, and the it is not known just how seriously Kodak Pony 135 Camera. Both will be shown at the convention of Kodak will be affected by the coal the Master Photo Dealers' and Fin- r--------------­ shortage. Already some operations ishers' Association Mar. 20-24 in Model 2 are made of stainless steel. have had to be reduced. The vital Cleveland. The machine requires only 8 feet importance of conserving what coal Featured in the still-camera sec- 6 inches by 2 feet 2 inches of floor remains has m ade this necessary. tion of Kodak's big display at space. Its height is 4 feet 4 inches Kodak Park a nd DPI are going Cleveland will be the Pony 135- a nd the weight is 1300 pounds on a 4-day schedule this week. lhe smartly styled new cam era. It when loaded with solutions ready These plants will be closed tomor­ completes a Kodak " team," the for operation. row, Friday, the 3rd. Pony 135 being the 35mm. counter- The unit is priced at $4500 net Further study is being given t o part of the P ony 828 Camera. including federal tax. the situation in the other plants The Pony 135, however, provides and Office. Whether full operating automatic film stop, an automatic .----Take a Letter 1---. schedules can be maintained in exposure counter, a rewind and these units is a question. It all other devices needed for use of 135 depends on developments. In the They're New-The new _Ko- fil m containers. It has 34 more TheyWrote'em meantime, every possible measure d a k Conh nu­ parts than the P ony 828, which ac­ is being taken to conserve heat, ous Paper P rocessor, Model 2. is counts for the difference in price. light, and power. shown a bove with J erry Zelden The n ew camera is $34.75, includ­ On Clay Back Some Facilities Closed of Adv. Dept. a t the operations end. ing federal tax. The inset shows the Kodak Pony The fine Kodak Anaston Lens, Facilities which are not vital to 135 Camera. Both will be shown 51mm., f/ 4.5, provides clear, sharp In 1050 B.C. Company operations a re being at the Master Photo Dealers' and pictures in black and white and closed. At Kodak Park, the recrea­ F inishers' Association convention. Kodachrome. Sumerians a nd Assyria ns went tional a r eas in Bldg. 28 are closed The new camera is being as­ to a lot more trouble to make for the dura tion of the emergency. sembled in Dept. 41 at CW. duplicate copies than do KO sec­ Night activities in the auditorium retaries today. at State Street have been canceled. Radio Show Shocks Walt Developed at CW In fact, if 20th Century secre­ Shorter work sch edules in some The Kodak Continuous Paper taries operated as did the scribes plants may mean that their people Processor, Model 2, was developed 3000 years ago, each of their desks will be away on Friday, Mar. 10, But $38 Prize Appeases Him by the Camera Works Engineering would have a pile of clay. which is Wage Dividend day. The Group. It was designed and is be­ Gordon Thompson, KO Adver­ Company is m aking special ar­ W alt K isner knows what it's like to sit in the hot seat. He did it ing produced by the E&M Dept. tising, called attention to this rangements to distribute Wage on radio's T ruth or Con seque n ces show on Saturday, Feb. 11. Walt, at Kodak Park. when he brought in two clay tab­ Dividend checks earlier in the of KO's Motion Picture Film D ept., and Tom Miller and Phil Model 2 is sma ller than the ear­ lets found at Ur, Sumerian site in week to these people. Chamberlain, of KO's P hoto- .--------------­ lier model a nd it is not equipped Mesopotamia. Com pany officials have expressed graphic Training Dept., attended ting in a hot seat, electrified by the with an attached drying drum. These ancient people recorded regret over the necessity for re­ the Hollywood, Calif., program button his neighbor pressed! The new processor ha ndles from deeds, bills of sale, contracts, and ducing work schedules and are For his spectacular performance other business transactions on tab­ h oping that a quick settlem ent of emceed by Ralph one to three strands of paper, the Edwards. Walt received $38 in prize money. width depending upon the number lets of clay. Since the tablets were the coal dispute will ease the sit­ T o m and Phil Now he wonders if he hasn't a in use. It accepts printed rolls up fragile, those bearing data of great uation soon. But as we go to press, importance were enclosed in a uncertainty over future develop­ c I a i m they were great future in radio. to 500 feet long. m o s t anxious to The trio spent two weeks at the Model 2 processes 1300 prints an protective clay envelope. Duplicate m ents makes it impossible to pre­ text, together with necessary dict what is going to happen. participate in the _.oM~,..... Hollywood Office of the Motion hour of 3 lhx5 inches, or 1700 an s h ow, but it was Picture Film Dept. They gave an hour of the 2% x3%-inch pr ints. identifying m arks, was inscribed Strict economy in the use of on the outside of the envelope, steam, water, electricity, refrigera­ q u i e t Walt, who intensive course in color photog­ Processing time from supply roll to happened to be sit­ raphy for m embers of the motion wet takeup r oll is 17 minutes. Gordon explained. His father tion, compressed air and heating taught the Assyrian and Sumerian and ventilating systems is urged. ting in an a i s 1 e picture studios and laboratories. All rollers and tanks in the s e a t, w h o w a s la nguages a,t Columbia U, and Gor­ The following fuel-saving sug­ don derived his interest from him. gestions are recommended: chosen. His part on the 1. Tu r n o ff lights whe n not Any ' Carbon Copy'? program seemed Walt K l~ner Display at Eastman House needed. simple. Five p e r - It often is difficult, he continued, 2. Shut off idle motors and other sons had lines to read. Walt's line to determine by visual inspection electrical equipment. was "ouch!" . .. to be uttered when Honors Pioneer on Photos whether or n ot one of these clay 3. S hut off steam w h e n not the participant next to him jumped specimens is a single tablet or an needed. up and pressed a button. A special exhibition at George Eastman House honors the man envelope-tablet combination. Breaking it open to determine if 4. Avoid waste of gas, refrigera­ His exclamation , he found, was whose inventions formed the cornerstone of modern photography. practically an automatic response. it is an envelope type often dam­ tion, compressed air and water . The occasion is the !50th birthday of William Henry Fox Talbot. ages the specimen. 5. Report all leak s promptly. Much to his surprise, he was sit- The· British inventor's negative- .--------------­ positive process was one of the proved to be basic in the printing Gordon interested Bill Cornwell, basic photographic discoveries. industry. Medical Technical Service Lab, in Rare photographs, autographed Fox Talbot was born at L acock the tablets, and they found a new letters, documents, books and por- Abbey, England, 10 miles northeast method of ascertaining the status traits by Talbot are on display this of Bath, on F eb. 11 , 1800. He died without any damage. month. They are part of the East- in 1877. They X-rayed the tablet, which showed up the inner one clearly. man Historical P hotographic Col­ In 1833, using small cam eras and The inside hieroglyphics can't be lection. Museums, libraries and wide aperture lenses, the inventor private collectors also have con­ found he could record camera read by X-ray, but they are always tributed to the special show. images on paper that h ad been lhe same as those on the outside. First P aper Negatives made light sensitive with silver Two of the first paper negatives chloride. Talbot's first pictures re­ made by Talbot in 1835 are fea­ quired an exposure of half an hour tured in the exhibition. They were on a sunny day. lent to George Eastman House by Exact replicas of the tiny cam­ Harold White, the British photog­ eras used in his fi rst experiments rapher who is writing Talbot's were made in England for George biography. Eastman House. Although the negative- positive process is best known of Talbot's cJ inventions, he is credited also with Sri ge PosfponecJ several other photographic "firsts." He published the first book illus­ Postponement of the IMC Open trated with photographs, made the Pair Match Point Duplicate Bridge first enlargements and photomicro­ Tournament was announced Mon­ graphs, made the first exposure by day due to the coal shortage. 'Here's the Situation'_ Oscar V.

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