George Eastman's original KP office
1941 Rendering of Kodak Park
Kodak Park was much more like a park originally!
An original copper mixing kettle: now sculpture!
City within a city
Former acetate manufacturing plant.
Kodak now sources its acetate film base externally
Kodacaboose!
Acetate plant. If you zoom in you can see huge drying wheels on the first floor.
Silver rich water
Film slitting machine
Cuts 4ft wide rolls of film into 12,000-ft long rolls of their finished widths (25mm, 70mm, etc)
Spools
A raw roll of film
Safelight strip.
Kodak's safelights are very dim green.
Perforations
After the film's run through the perforator this is what's left: Kodak confetti! It is sent off for silver reclamation
Discarded polyester film!
Discarded acetate film
Caskets
Uncut rolls of film are stored in light-tight wooden caskets!
Uncut printed sheets of metal to be slit and turned into 35mm canisters!