viernes, 7 de octubre de 2016


Revealling History of Kodak


George Eastmant (1854 -1932)
George Eastman was a son of an England  emigrant, he arrived to  Salisbury in  Massachussets, George was born in Waterville (Nueva York) in 1854. George was the creador of  Eastman Kodak Company. 

Kodak was a revolucionary company, this contributed in the cinema and the fotography, some inventions were: 


  • The use of plates dry gelatin created in 1878 these were more easy to use and disclose by the same photographer, plates moisture are emulsions in various chemicals making it more difficult to use.

    Resultado de imagen para kodak cineon system
    Cineon 
  • In 1884 started to sail the Eastman negative role, their function was make copies, this gave way to the Eastman American film, heleped to created the first film emulsified for cinematographic copies.

  • At the beginning of the 90`s Kodak created the Cineon system, it was a computer based on a software of digital system video used to create a composition, effects, and fin images and colors. The first moviethat was digitally  restored with this amachine was snow white and the senven dwarf in 1993. 
(watch img. 1 and 2 for more specific information)

Sonochrome
  •  Then, in 1929 kodak introduce its own film pre-dyeing system in 1929 to white and black, this was called Sonochromo, this system let the films in tinted 17 diffejents colors, included: Peachblow, Inferno, Candle Flame, Sunshine, Purple Haze, Firelight, Azure, Nocturne, Rose Doree, and the neutral-density Argent, these colors kept the neutral screen when switched to a black-and-white scene
In the cinematographic industry, the films were made with flamable materials because that was manufacturated with nitrate, this requiered a a special care and needed a expert forro be able to play the film tape, so Kodak began to créate films more segure, that were heat-resistant and more easy to project, thee films were created with a synthetic polymer.

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Afterwhat Kodak Company began to give color to their products, making ir one od the most  important and visionary to the world of photography and film. Their first revolution related with the color was 1914 and their first involved was the prohography where are made in a sustrative process of two color. In 1916, and 1917 Kodak improved the films for negative film tope E and F knows as Negative film las speed type 1201, the films made with this technology were orocromatics ( light-sensitive films to all is colors less red), in there the people  could observe and improvis of brightness and grain. Later these films became panchromatic (sensitive to all colors); This film was used for the first time in the movie “The Last of the Mohicans”  in 1920 the panchromatic film was use for a sequence in outside, thanks to this film could record in low light. 
In 1992 Kodak financed the production of the movie which was recorded entirely with the panchromatic film.

Afghan girl by McCurry
More later, in 1928 the cinema took a new leap in the audiovisual part; Kodak introduced the Kodacolor film, this was basically a negative color film with easy reproduction of copies, also created a special film for the projection of the image and the sound. then in 1930 the panchromatic plates was developed, these were sensitive to light thus they captured faster color and in 1935 was created the Kodachrome film , this filter-photographed print the images with red-blue and green for two sides in the strip. This film most enhancing colors and to last longer the image since it contained three layers with different sensitivity of color, the photographer McCurry used this film in the photograph of the Afghan girl, 2010 still used this film; It was the first film to be marketed around the world where began to also sell to fans

(Watch img. 3 and 4 for more spesific information). 

The second invention available to the public was the first film color called kodak Ektachrome , later this product improved and was the fastest film to color when it comes to revealing, also joined him automatic exposure control in 2 photograpic cameras and 4 cinematographic camera Kodak. In 1947, Kodak introduced the Eastman Television Recording camera, thus culminating a series of experiments carried out in collaboration with the laboratories Allan B. and National Broadcasting. making this special film camera he replicate image from a television screen. these inventions became Kodak have in 1946 more than 60,000 employees worldwide, 73,000 employees worldwide in a year.

A historical event for the company occurred when Apollo 11 reached the Moon and two astronauts took the photos with a stereocamera.


  • In 1980s kodak introduced an advanced emulsión, was the T-Grain, the T-Grain transformed the silver grains in their films. This grain let a grater light sensitivity in a  high area, as result has a less overall graininess to the film and a relatively small grain. the T-Grain was employed in kodak`s EXR line in the negative morion picture. this technology avanced in 2000 by the visión 2 and in 2007 with the visión 3. 


  • In1997 January 29 presented the new movies Gold, they used the technology Colorsharp, the 400, 200, and 100 gave one best combination of accuracy and saturation of color and the KODAK GOLD Max 800 ISO gave an excellent quality in the image regardless of weather condition for both fixed and moving images. In 1999 March 18 announces the expansion of Cinesite, inc, which helped to have three independent divisions with digital emphasis on mastering, scanning, and special effects, this helped the union of cinema both traditional and digital. Currently cinesite has designed all the Visual effects of the Harry Potter saga however in 2012 Kodak come the company to the UK


  • Before falling into bankruptcy, in 1975, a company engineer named Steve Sesson created a small machine in where the photos were stored digitally, however rejected the idea because it had very few computers at that time, so other companies such as fuji, canon, sony, among others, adopted this idea and began to explore the possibilities that this new machine, this idea would have saved them from bankruptcy. 

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 Currently many of the Directors still like to record with rolls of 35 mm as Quentin Tarantino or Christopher Nolan, Hollywood decided to sign a contract with Kodak for several years this company you sell a quantity of rolls even if they don't use them, Kodak is the company that still continues to produce large rolls and that Fuji film abandoned this competition in 2013 this assure you the wall street newspaper.



Kodak had a great story filled with good economic times, however for small mistakes was gradually falling and being forgotten by the world provided that for the first time the opportunity that we just pressed to preserve your memories physically and permanently. Today their income does not exceed the 1798 million.


 I can be me anticipating the bounce... thank you for making us just press the button, you did the rest because "the real Kodak moment happens when you share" 
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By: Natalia Zambrano Mortigo 
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