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Farewell Kodachrome! (and Kodak!?)
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Farewell Kodachrome! (and Kodak!?)

2012 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

Kodachrome, the color film Kodak introduced in 1935, gets a send-off timed to its 75th and final year, right as the company that made it filed for bankruptcy. The film follows the closing of the last lab on earth still able to process Kodachrome, tracking the chemistry, machinery, and staff that kept the format alive long after most labs had switched to newer stocks. Interviews and archival footage trace what made the film distinctive, its saturated color and unusual development process, and why professional photographers and hobbyists kept shooting it decades after simpler alternatives existed. The bankruptcy filing hangs over the whole piece as the other half of the story, a 130-year-old company that once defined photography itself running out of road. The film treats the two endings, the film stock and the corporation, as one event rather than a coincidence, and lets the people who worked the last rolls through the lab explain what gets lost when a physical process disappears for good.