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Offline Robin Rowland

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Kodachrome test footage from 1922
« on: February 16, 2013, 04:53 PM »
Slate has (re)discovered some test movie footage Kodak ran with prototype Kodachrome in 1922.

See
This 1922 Kodachrome Test Footage is Strangely Bewitching

 http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/02/08/early_color_film_from_1922_actresses_vamp_for_the_camera.html?utm_source=tw&utm_medium=sm&utm_campaign=button_toolbar

The movie flickers cause it was an old hand cranked camera. Also Kodak had not yet mastered fully coating the Kodachrome emulsion on movie film which leads to the "bewitching" effect the writer mentions.

Kodak originally posted a story 2010

http://1000words.kodak.com/thousandwords/post/?id=2982503


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