Built Great Industry from Pastime; Made Wealth Serve World
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Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County · Historic Scrapbooks Collection Id listen to the popular anisic Better Made es Paper rancy of the Here, therefore, was day. While, through Mr. Eastman's Mr. Eastman's instructions in a for show place already provided efforts, tremendous advances had later years, in what a the new motion wealth specifying ing novelty, pic been made in the simplification and Great Made from World trade word must on a Serve were not but Built that it tures screen, in what be, Pastime; betterment of making Industry negative has three His mother's became the 1 as necessary qualifications: was known as the Kinetoscope. The negatives were made on kitchen he would failure met him at material, there had been no ad greatest enterprises, acquired an first Kodak Research New Product Succeeds "It must be short, euphonious, and One dropped a nickel into the slot what are known as wet plates. Laboratory. every turn. He was baffled at every vancement (except for the bromide enormous personal fortune, dls and looked a In It he delved deeper into move. To man meaningless." through peep-hole, These had to be freshly sensitized, the| the young whose The next step was the stripping enlarging paper) in that end of tributed the greater part of that his contribu and there were the wonderful mo and the ex of experi outlook had been so "Kodak," personal in the dark of course, mysteries photography, bright but a film. This was a big move for the business which involved the fortune In a way to make It per and all this at tion to the world of trade-marks, tion pictures, made while the were mented, planned; few weeks before, it was a near ward so far as was con enlarged slightly of the The MADE same posure plates quality making prints. photog EASTMAN useful, and at the met all these manently in his "leisure" and from the size in which the IGEORGE The amateur did not, as night hours, forj and here was where qualifications original come still wet. tragedy but was an and did not to him time In himself the ca George cerned, annoying raphers' paper developed out was still his avoca Eastman's more. The two sharp clicks of the negative was made. The Edison now, carry his photographic photography resourcefulness and fussy process. It consisted in coat ready sensitized. He purchased an pacity for enjoying the best that at the "K's," the incisiveness of the "d" for the fit in his trie with tionnot 'Us vocation. Work stick-to-it-iveness first became camera, taking picture, first the world has to offer in music pocket lugged | ap ing the paper first with an easily albumenized paper, and the camera bank went on aa usual. His made the word made Eastman trans him not a bulky plates in a The on unforgetable, possible by was and literature, in all the cultural merely parent large way. factory soluable gelatin, top of which job every morning to silver- and chemicals were at last a success. He though in no degree offensive. No parent film, and the little Kineto SIMPLER and tripod and glass and, was shut down; no Eastman the sensitized emulsion was coated. sensitize of this for PHOTOGRAPHY arts, and with it all never became enough paper were to make trade name in which the of the slot were for Ue /eloping, and others able good pic Plates were It looked legal scope parlors, never lost his sense of sensitizing. forthcoming. After e; _>osure and development, the turning out of the day's batch blase, humor, to en have been maintained is therefore the of but al-o the dark tent in tures on them. He decided like the end of all so far rights forerunners motion could still see fun in a bail fixing, things the negative was soaked in water of prints. The earlier prints for game of better known. as which to the chemical op ter upon the manufacture dry| as >the little was con picture photography we know perform company and the contained Kodak users were all made on this cr a pack mule such a boy made negative image Even before the erations and In which to load the plates commercially. cerned. Kodak with its it today. tha most ~>t or in the emulsion was transferred to albumen paper. It was in 1892 MAN every hour, working film" was on the FELLOW "stripping market, AIDED holders. But ap But idleness in the Rochester AND photography a and abhorred waste worst plats gelatin "skin." When these two that the Kodak Company came out leisure, its inventor realized that some to the bank clerk. He & Eastman 1881 did not mean idleness so far Motion Pictures of the waste of time. pealed young Strong plant gelantinous substances were dried, i Arrive with its Solio, a gelatino-chloride all, to Initiate thing further was necessary. If a $5 as Eastman was concerned. paid photographer This was in 1879. With one helper,] George they became as one there was an At first, film alone was paper that the photographer pur the Kodak idea went over with negative him into its He mas He was in Native of Oneida mysteries. he started the business in a hired England, where he easily usable and reliable nega used, but in 1895 the Eastman chased "ready for use." j this there were still Pastime and tered them. Just aa he has mastered the formula of the best film, greater Difficult Art room over a State Street bought tive that needed no "greasing." a Other similar came out Made upstairs in store when the film could Company began making special papers Popular so many problems since. And when i Plate then made the things County music store. He continued in his English Dry these the middle positive film for the motion picture at about the same time and over Eastman was born in time came, he took a During years, J be supplied on a thin, flexible, George the vacation Mawson & Swan. He worked in at the bank, but night found machines the film that is now in Jamestown, a collodion chloride job 80's, the was steadily Wafervllle, Oneida New to Mackinac and there their company j transparent base on a base To County, trip Island, him in his emulsion factory until he was sure he.ving known as soon fol Film That Edison factory making ! with its and pa- all the of without made not by the foot or the mile. paper, Aristo, Produced Helped York, 12, the son of this amateur enthusiast that he prosperous plates j advantages glass July 1854, young which was coated on the could likewise make the but the hundreds of thousands lowed. The war was a glass and paper negatives. Roll, by merry one, George Washington nd Maria Kil- sweated in the dark tent with his byj at home. Then back he per its weight and fragility. This film, a machine that his ingenuity plates holders and cameras and their ac-' of miles annually. with Solio and Aristo getting most bourn Eastman. His father was a and silver and pro-j collodion parapher were came and resumed in then known as Eastman vided. The plates excellent; operations cessories became a of the transpar ex of the business the nineties. Motion Picture Process nitrate part While other inventors did during Perfect pioneer In the business college field nalia. Undoubtedly he got than his! his own He was able the market was greater plant. again line. A branch was established ini ent film, was first produced com tensive and valuable work in the These were all known as "printing and the successful establishment of silver stains on his person and to little could This make good plates, yet hardly was factory supply. London. Everything jogging in 1889 the forerunner of motion picture cam out" papers that is, the image ap that hs founded was continued for he was extremely of mercially perfecting unquestionably was a time of tremendous effort. the equal those he had previous well. eras motion peared without and along and picture projectors, development several years by hi- brother. The uncomfortable, but he made pic turned out. The of not only of the great business in All through the week he worked ly mystery why the mechan will the back to the Eastman from Then and the work of Edison in carry memory family removed tures, good pictures. and in those first plates went bad has film of but of the GAVE HIS INTEREST WITH MONEY by day in the bank by night Kodak Is Born cartridge today ical end and of Eastman in the time that scores of printing frames Watervills to Rochester in 1860. became one of the first there he From never been fully solved, though in motion the film his "factory." Saturday night | picture films, packs, chemical end formed a basis for adorned the roofs adjacent to every where the father died within a amateurs, in reality took his first the of But why a roll holder as an ac until Monday morning he slept con light present-day knowledge the portrait film which has so the entire motion The When he was 14 of the camera? not picture industry. photographer's skylight. prog year. years old, step toward the leadership it is that the tr uble came cessory to the Why the AND CIVIC GOOD tinuously, except that twice on| probable largely displaced glass plates in ress of the had to be EDUCATION to will remem printing FOR George Eastman left school and hosts of Kodakers who were from the of obtain i lake tho whole outfit self-con- Many Rochesterians his mother would awaker impossibility 1 studio of the professional, and of it was went to the Sunday closely watched.