Word: kodak
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...colorful marvel from Kodak...
...reason the Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, N.Y., controls 70% of the U.S. amateur photographic film market is the firm's remarkable ability to create new products that make taking pictures a snap. First there was the boxlike Brownie in 1900. Then after World War II came the Brownie Hawkeye (1949), the Instamatic (1963), the pocket Instamatic (1972) and, earlier this year, the highly successful Kodak Disc camera. Between its introduction in May and year's end, the company expects to sell 8 million of the devices, making it by far the hottest new camera in history...
...technical terms, Kodak's new film carries an ISO rating of 1,000, which means that it is 2½ times as sensitive to light as any other color print film now on the market. (ISO is a new international film-speed measuring standard, whose ratings are similar to the previously used American one, ASA.) The company's most popular color print film, Kodacolor II, has a rating of 100. Kodak and several rivals, including Europe's Agfa-Gevaert Group, the Japanese Fuji Photo Film Co. and Minnesota's 3M Co., produce less popular, and more...
...then Steven had discovered his life's passion. Leah recalls, "One day Arnold bought a movie camera and started taking pictures of Steven. He was still a baby, but he got up and walked straight for the camera." At twelve, he got his own movie camera, an inexpensive Kodak, and would spend hours alone writing scripts, drawing shots on sheets of paper that piled up in his room, making movies. He would film head-on crashes of his Lionel trains. He would go on camping trips with his family and turn his home movies into melodramas. ("I never felt...
...laboratories, which are humming from 8 in the morning to 10 at night. From the start, an R.I.T. education is geared toward the molding of marketable skills. In fact, students are periodically required to leave school for an academic quarter to fill temporary jobs at nearby companies, including Kodak and IBM. R.I.T.'s energetic placement office generates ten-year forecasts of the number of jobs that will open up in the different branches of engineering. Those studies show that R.I.T. graduates should continue to be in demand, even in a down economy...