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Author Topic: Book: How Kodak Film Was Made Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-12-2013 08:18 AM                     This is the only extremely detailed book ever written on the subject, most of which was held as secret until Kodak began dismantling and then demolishing their film production factories... The author worked for Kodak and was a friends with the late John Pytlak. It is already out of print and the author won't be shipping any more books after September 30, 2013. I posted this in Film Handlers so film related people would see it and not miss out on getting a copy. http://www.makingkodakfilm.com/ Mark  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-12-2013 11:29 AM                        Very glad to hear that he's doing another print run. Apart SMP[T]E and BKS[T]S journal articles going back to the first half of the last century and some sections in Cornwell-Clyne's Colour Cinematography and Smither & Surowiec's This Film is Dangerous (which again deal only with the nitrate era), it's the only book I've come across that describes the process of manufacturing film base in any significant detail.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-12-2013 01:19 PM                        _was_?!?! They still make it, you know. And, yes, it is a good book and worth owning. I have a copy and recommend it.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 08-13-2013 04:23 PM                     He's NOT doing another print run. This is the last of it, no more printings, and sales end September 30, 2013 or when he runs out of copies to sell. So get it while you can... Mark  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 08-13-2013 06:22 PM                        Sorry - misread 'won't' for 'will' in haste. I hope that Mr. Shanebrook might consider an e-book or print-on-demand approach to keeping his book available after the last of the hard copy print run books have been shipped. I'm guessing (and if so, sympathise) that he's not keen to have to keep packaging up and mailing hard copies indefinitely when an order arrives via his website, but if he's willing to accept a lower cut of each sale, then there are loads of e-book and print-on-demand publishers out there who I'm sure would be delighted to take this title on. I'm normally a bit cagey about self-published books, but the text and images in this one are excellent and within a generation it's going to be absolutely essential reading for anyone who wants to find out, at nuts-and-bolts level, how film was made during its final phase as a mainstream imaging technology.  |  IP: Logged Emiel De Jong Film Handler Posts: 48 From: Geldrop The Netherlands Registered: Mar 2007 posted 08-31-2013 08:39 AM                     Thanks for posting this! I got my copy in the mail today; it is wonderful.  |  IP: Logged Phillip Grace Expert Film Handler Posts: 164 From: ACMI. Melbourne. Australia. Registered: Mar 2004 posted 09-04-2013 10:08 PM                     Thanks Mark for the heads-up. Fantastic book. The scale of the Kodak operation is absolutely staggering.  |  IP: Logged Lindsay Morris Expert Film Handler Posts: 233 From: Darlington, WA, Australia Registered: Sep 2002 posted 09-06-2013 02:41 AM                     Yes, also a thanks to Mark for the info...my copy is on its way over. Some of the info posted about the book (on line) takes your breath away at what Kodak did...amazing stuff. Lindsay  |  IP: Logged Jim Cassedy Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1661 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Dec 2006 posted 09-06-2013 10:39 AM                     Thanks for posting this, Mark. The book looks very interesting and I've just ordered one. (You should be getting a commission for all sales you've stimulated!) -jc-  |  IP: Logged Markus Ito Film Handler Posts: 27 From: San Diego, CA, USA Registered: Apr 2011 posted 09-08-2013 07:44 PM                     Just received my book a few days ago. It is a pretty amazing operation that Kodak had set up.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-10-2013 10:10 PM                     It really is amazing stuff... Things that were designed back in the twenties are still be4ing used to manufacture Kodak film today... the main thing being that huge polished wheel the film base is poured continously on. Hopefully the author signed all your copies too. He did mine. Mark  |  IP: Logged Mike Heenan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1896 From: Scottsdale, AZ, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-12-2013 05:10 PM                     How many pages is the book?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-14-2013 06:17 PM                     94 pages and gobs of photos showing how it was all done. It's an 8-1/2 X 11 sized soft cover book.  |  IP: Logged

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