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El Viaje De Un Fotógrafo Por Kodak Jon Fauer, ASC The Journal of Art, Technique and Technology in Motion Picture Production Worldwide (*PULTH[VNYHWOLY»ZEL VIAJE DE UN FOTÓGRAFO ;V\YVM2VKHRPOR KODAK 2 Kodak Report !Esteis informe report couldpodría behaber called, sido “Myllamado, Trip “Mi to viajeKodak.” a Kodak.” I was Fui recently recientemente invited invi by - Sarabethtado por Sarabeth Litt and Litt Carolyn y Carolyn Delvecchio Delvecchio to para join acompañar Michael Ryan,a Michael Garrett Ryan, Kokx, Garrett MarthaKokx, Martha Le Cars, Le Cars, Bill BillFekete, Fekete, many otros Kodak muchos scientists, cientí!cos and de Kodak, John Johnston y John Johnston (for- (anteriormente Gerente de ventas regionales de Kodak y ahora asociado a Film and Digi- mertal Times) Kodak para Regional realizar unaSales suerte Manager, de viaje and por now los progresos associate durante at Film los and cien Digital años de Times)fabricación to takede !lms a whirlwind hasta esta horas tour actualescompressing tan fascinantes. a hundred years of "lm manu- facturing progress into a few fascinating hours. Este reporte no intenta ser un informe técnico ni ser un tratado de como fundar su !propiais report industria is not fílmica. intended Es posible to be que a technical haya algunas treatise omisiones on how que tohagan build alzar your las cejasown "delm desaprobación factory. !ere de algúnmay becientí some!co omissionsde Kodak, a thatpesar could de mi raise gran atenciónthe eyebrow a las narof -a Kodakraciones scientist, de mis brillantes despite acompañantes my having paid que mevery guiaron close aattention través de lasto theimpresionantes fascinating narrativesinstalaciones of de the Rochester. best and brightest who escorted me through the impressive facilities in Rochester. My intent was to illuminate the process of "lm manu- facturingMi intención so fuethat explicar fellow el cinematographers proceso de la fabricación and students del !lm para might que better los colegas appreci cin-- ematogra!stas y los estudiantes puedan apreciar mejor la fascinante tecnología que está atedetrás the del fascinating producto ! technologynal. El siguiente and informe process es behind el de un the informante product. testigo !e followingdurante un reportviaje privado is one y writer’sprivilegiado. take No on estoy a private, capacitado privileged para cubrir tour. cada I’m detalle not able técnico, to cover pero everydeseo ayudartechnical a mis detail, colegas but a unaI do mejor hope comprensión to help my delcolleagues la fabricación better de understand lo que hay whatdentro is de in las the tradicionales familiar round latas redondas. can. AEn mosaic la exposición of George de la George Eastman, Eastman composed House ofen 2500Rochester, images Nueva selected Cork, fromse expone over 50,000un mosaico images, compuesto is on displaypor 2500 at imágenes the George extraídas Eastman de 50000 House imágenes. collection Se utiliza in Roch una - ester,tecnología New computarizada, York. It uses desarrolladacomputer technology en los laboratorios developed MIT atMedia the MITLab por Media Robert LabSilvers by para Robert realizar Silvers un mapa to map de una a collection colección deof photographs,fotografías, asignándole assigning a cada each una to a particularun lugar en locationparticular by de theiracuerdo individual a su color colors y forma. and Las shapes. imágenes ! quee images capturamos we cap al - !lmar, almacenar, copiar o proyectar son mosaicos de cristales de plata que se convierten ture on "lm, store, print or project are mosaics of silver crystals that become en pequeños puntos luminosos. Cuantos más pequeños sean dichos puntos, mas en foco tinyestará points la imagen. of light. !e smaller the dots, the sharper the image appears. !El genioe genius de George of George Eastman Eastman (a la izquierda (le#, and y arriba,above, con with " omas!omas Edison) Edison) fue desarrol is that- helar unadeveloped matriz # aexible universal, y universal, $exible que matrix, fuera común a worldwide en todas partesstandard del mundothat did y que manycumpliera things: varias it tareas:was the que sensor, fuera sensible, the recorder, que registrara, the storage que fuera medium un medio (all uncomde alma- pressed),cenamiento and (sin could compresión), be used y topudiese copy, ser archive utilizada and para project. copiar, archivar y proyectar. Kodak Report 3 George Eastman House LasA busman’svacaciones holiday de un hombreis a vacation de negocios that involves involucran doing las the mismas same cosas quething hace that en onesu trabajo. does at Las work. vacaciones A cinematographer’s de un cinematogra holiday!sta incluyen un viajeinvolves a Rochester, a trip to New Rochester, York—para New visitarYork—to la Eastman visit Eastman House House y la fábrica Eastmanand Eastman Kodak. Kodak Manufacturing. LaGeorge George Eastman Eastman House House is no not debe to be ser missed dejada if de you lado have si ustedanything tiene algo queto dover withcon lasstill imágenes, or moving ya images. sean !jas An o easyen movimiento. one and a half Un hour sencillo viaje!ight de from una horaNew yYork media City en or avión "ve desdehour scenic Nueva drive York too cincoRochester, horas de automóvilNew York, lo itllevará is the hastaworld’s el oldestmás antiguo photography museo museumy archivo andfotográ ar-!co del mundo,chive, andque housesguarda thela mayor world’s colección largest collections de fotografías of photographic y equipamiento cinematográand cinematographic!co en el mundo. equipment. La casa, # elos house, jardines gardens y el lugar and estatetodo son un valiosoare a valuable patrimonio National histórico Historic nacional. Landmark. UnIt’s dato a curious curioso thing es que about los gradosLatitude. de Degrees Latitud yof Longitud Longitude son are variables perovariable, la distancia but distance al Ecuador from se the mantiene equator constanteis a constant en 69 millasmiles perpor grado. degree. Yo tengo una teoría al respecto de la revolución industrial. Creo que la I have a theory about the Industrial Revolution. Technology was tecnología no solamente fue estimulada por el vapor o el carbón, sino que fueled not only by water power and coal, but also by parallel también lo fue por los diferentes pensamientos paralelos que coincidieron thought processes that coincided, around the world, with similar en el mundo en la misma latitud. Rochester, New York está a los 43.19° degrees of Latitude. Rochester, New York is 43.19° North. And it Norte. Y fue aquí, en 1880, cuando George Eastman inauguró la Com- was here, in 1880, that George Eastman opened a photographic pañía que fabricó la placa seca fotográ!ca. Lyon, Francia está ubicada a los dry plate manufacturing company. Lyon, France is 45.75° North, 45.75° Norte, a solo 177 millas en Latitud (pero a 3895 millas en longitud) a mere 177 miles apart in Latitude (but 3895 apart in Longitude) de Rochester, NY. En ese mismo año en el que George Eastman trabajó de from Rochester, NY. In the same year that George Eastman día en un banco y de noche en su taller, Louis y Auguste Lumière estaban worked by day in a bank and by night in his workshop, Louis ocupados en un trabajo similar desde las 5am a las 11pm en el aparente and Auguste Lumière were engaged in similar painstaking work fracaso de su padre con una placa seca fotográ!ca similar. Dos años después,from 5am ambos to 11pm prosperaron, in their father’sy lo que failing vino fue photographic la historia de plate la fotografía !jacompany. y en movimiento. Two years later, both were prospering, and the rest was photographic and cinematographic history. HoyToday, en día you se can pueden visit thevisitar houses, las casas now convertidas wonderful museums,en museos, of de estos geniosthese emprendedores.entrepreneurial geniuses.La Villa Lumière #e Lumière se complete Villa was en 1902.completed El establec - imientoin 1902. de George George Eastman’s Eastman seEstate edi! wascó entre built 1902 between y 1905. 1902 A andpesar de que la1905. casa deAlthough Lyon es thede estiloLyon Arthouse Nouveau is Art Nouveau y la de Rochester and the Rocheses Neo-colonial,- ambas comparten la pasión de sus dueños por la luz y son abundantes las ter house is Colonial Revival, both share the owners’ passion for ventanas amplias. La casa de George Eastman es de 35,000 pies cuadrados, light and abundant use of wide expanses of mullioned windows. con 50 habitaciones, 13 baños y un sistema de relojería central. Está emp- George Eastman’s 35,000 square-foot house, with 50 rooms, 13 lazada sobre un terreno de ocho acres y medio en el n° 900 de la Avenida baths and central clock system, sits on eight and a half acres at Este en Rochester. En 1919, Eastman decidió renovar y mejorar la acústica 900 East Avenue in Rochester. In 1919, he decided to renovate, del conservatorio; dividió la casa en dos para ampliarlo nueve pies y and to improve the acoustics in the conservatory, cut the house cuatro pulgadas. Es una hermosa habitación, llena de luz proveniente del in half to move it nine feet, four inches. It is a beautiful room, cielo. "lled with light from the skylights above a model elephant. El# nombree name “Kodak” “Kodak” fue was inventado invented enin 1888. AEastman Eastman liked le gustaba the let- la letra “K”ter porque “K” because según it él was era “strongfuerte e and incisiva... incisive...!rme"rm y no and confusa” unyielding.” SegúnElizabeth Elizabeth Brayer’s Brayer de" nitiveen su biografíabiography, George George Eastman, Eastman dice, quotes re!riéndose a him,la palabra “First: Kodak:
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