KODAK COMPANY Vol. 6, No. 26 Copyright 1948 by Eastman Kodak Company, Rocheste r, N. Y. July 1. 1948 Fil~nOutput Home Movies Observe Doubles '39 At Harrow Quarter-Century Mark "We've doubled our prewar annual film production ,'' de·­ Home movies, w hich have brought this type of en tertainment clared H orace B. West, general into the homes of millions, will be a quarter of a century old superintendent of the Film and next Monday. In those 25 years home movies have progressed Plates Dept. of Kodak Ltd.'s Har­ beyond all early-day expectations. .---------------­ row Works. "And the main pur­ Today the Smm. and 16mm. films man, the Company's founder, ap­ pose of m y trip to have become an international proved a special project aimed at Kodak Rochester is hobby and an important aid to ed- developing a new type of r eversal to study up-to-date ucation, science and industry. fi lm. This would eliminate the two me.thods to further It was July 5, 1923, that Kodak (Continued on Page 4) increase produc­ placed on sale in New York City tion. Many of our the first complete 16mm. motion EK Products at Work departm e nts are picture outfit- including camera, work ing around film and projector-and announced the clock. the first amateur film processing Science Sees "Biggest consum­ service to make possible movie er of film is the making for everyone. motion picture in­ The introduction of color gave Sky Vagaries dustry. More mov- a big boost to the making of home Horace West ies are being pro- movies until today it is estimated duced in England that more than 1,100,000 families In Silver Ball than ever before, and many are Then and Now-These Pic- in the United States own amateur destined to be exported. The gov­ tures show movie cameras. Total in the 8mm. Our spinning earth becomes jet­ ernment, therefore, grants high the changes that have been made field is estimated at 775,000, while propelled in Kodak research mov­ priority on film to the movie in­ in the Kodak home-movie camera in the 16mm. the figure is set at ies. dustry, and the demand for nega­ in the 25 years since the Oine-Ko· 325,000 cameras. About nine out The sun whizzes across the sky tive, positive and sound-recording dak Model A. at left. was intro­ of 10 families owning movie cam­ from sunrise to sunset in one min­ f11m is tremendous." duced. And, incidentally. they show eras, or some 950,000 families, also ute. Dawn is a match blazing in West, who spent most of his time the changes over the 25-year span own motion picture projectors. the east. Clouds streak by, some­ while here at Kodak Park, made in the movie maker himself. AI Spurred in Wartime times boiling up like exploding a trip to the West Coast where left is Harris Tuttle all decked out The 16mm. m ovies, both silent puffs of cotton, then race below Emery Huse, head of the West in his double-pocket suit and cap, and sound, proved invaluable dur­ the horizon. Rain may pelt down, Coast Office of Kodak's Motion hand-cranking the Cine-K o d a k ing World War 11 for training of and dry seemingly instantaneously Picture Films Dept., took him to Model A. At right is Tuttle of Sales the armed forces and in industry. under the summer sun. At sunset, see many of the large Hollywood S ervice as he is today, posing with the Cine-Kodak Special Camera. Spuned c;m by this success, the licks of fire may gleam through studios and laboratories. lfimm. movies are playing a role the cloud cover. And on bright Entertaining in England is al­ of ever-growing importance today nights, Mars and Jupiter may most impossible these days, he de­ in education, sales, and scientific chase the moon across the sky. clared in commenting on condi­ and industria l research. It is esti­ In one minute, you can see all tions there. "Rations can't be Synthetic Sunlight Produced mated that approximately one­ the changes and movement that stretched, but neither is anyone third of all sales of amateur-size occur in the sky during daylight starving. Worst complaint about movie fil m and equipment today hours. It's as though the earth the food is its sameness," he said. With Power-Packed Flash are for other than amateur movies. rotated at a speed of nearly 1,000- Kodak began effor ts to produce 000 miles an hour at the equator, Sunlight may be a will-o'-the-wisp to most Rochesteria ns, but a practical and inexpensive method instead of its actual speed of a Victory Building in the Professional Sales Studio at KO they now will h ave it at of making home movies as early little better than 1000. their disposal 365 days a year. The source of this lig ht, however, as 1916. At that time, despite the Dr. Loyd A. Jones and H. R. Bought by Kodak commercial failure of the many Condit, scien tists at the Kodak Re­ is the man-made Sun Flash equipment recently acquired by the pt·evious attem pts to adapt pro­ sear ch Laboratories, make the Hawk-Eye's Victory Building­ Studio for experimentation pur­ constructed by the Army Ordnance fessional movie-making techniques movies as part of their studies of poses in photography. to amateur purposes, George East- (Continued on Page 4) Dept. in 1943 to enable that plant Don't Bet Your Life! So powerful is the equipment to turn out a large volume of vital Don't gamble wiJh your life! that it develops energy per fl ash optical equipment for war use-­ of 10,000 watt-seconds, com pris­ now belongs to Kodak. The Fourth of July holiday weekend is coming up, and ing 1300 microfarads (unit of elec­ Final papers were signed last trical capacity> char ged to 4000 week and the Company received whether you go traveling, swim­ ming or picnicking, play it safe. volts, it was explained. the deed from the Government for The new electronic fl ash lamp a consideration of $2,200,000. You'll feel better about it on Tuesday. For additional holiday was developed by Dr. Harold E. The building is seven stories Edgerton, of the MIT electrical high and contains 412,000 square don'ts turn to Pa ge 5 a nd don't follow Joe Goop's lead. engineering department, and his feet of space. associates. He also designed the first Kodatron Speedlamps. Color Exposures Exposures of Kodachrome or Ektachrome Film, daylight type, can be made at from 12 to 15 feet at f/1 1. The guide factor for the color film is approximately 250 with a single front lamp at the camera using the entire output of I 0,000 watt-seconds. T his guide factor is lower if several lamps are used in widespread positions. Four power units are provided and one or all of them can be hooked into the control unit which has cable outlets to four lamps, each having a 24 -inch-diameter reflector and a 12-foot cord. From one to four lamps may be oper­ ated on from one to four of the condenser banks. Weighing 1400 pounds, the equipment is mobile, since the heavy power units are mounted on two dollies. Because of the high power pro­ duced, safeguards are provided for the operator and the equipment. Big flash _ Ozzie Wieggel was snapped here while making test Automatic circuit controls are built • This Cine-Kodak Special Camera sees all in shots with the Sun Flash equipment in the Profession­ into the unit. Eyes On th e Sk 1es- the sky by looking into a silver ball. H. R. al Sales Studio at Kodak Office. The KODAKERY photographer used The tremendous amount of en­ Condit, Kodak research scientist. focuses the Cine-Kodak on a mirror, the powerful flash to make his exposure for this picture. At right are ergy dissipated during the fl ash is upper left. which is inverted over the silver-coated b all. The ball re­ the four power units and the control box to which cables are attached. (ConUnued on Page 4) flects the sky so that the camera sees from horizon to horizon. 2 ~ODAKERY July L 1948 Films Help with Fitting OfVets' Artificial Limbs Or. Russell Reynolds, pioneer in cineradiography, during his recent Rochester visit told Kodak Medical Sales Div. member s how X-ray cine films are bein g u sed in England to aid m en who lost arms and legs in the war. The consulting physician in I_) charge of the Depa rtment of Ra- t,J Departme diology at Charing Cross Hospital, 114" o London, England, declared that it uttng is possible now to obtain perma- lt.Lap nent records of the behav10ur of Plans for the 40th annual picnic a hf!1b within the socket of a pro~­ of the Shipping Receiving and thes1s. These are of great value m Traffic Dept.s. of KO, KP, CW, H-E obtaming comfortable fit~ings .. and NOD already are under way, CmeradtOgraphy a~o 1s bemg w1th 250 expected. used m other orthopedtc cases and Jt's to be at Bay View Hotel on in examinations of the heart, lungs Saturday, July 31, with activities and alimentary ,tract. start1ng ut I p.m., according to Blll Dr. Reynolds pr?cedure, "':h1ch Sweeney, KO Shipping, and Andy he has worked on smce 1921, ts_an Vogel , KP Shipping, cochairmen.