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...another action, the ACSR decided in a nearly unanimous vote not to ask the Eastman Kodak Company to abandon its operations in South Africa. Committee members thought the company's presence might benefit both Black and white factory workers, Richard Valeely, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences representative to the ACSR, said yesterday...
...popped out film that developed sharp color prints while one looked at them. After some initial start-up problems with the SX-70, the mass-market One-Step and Pronto models were smash successes. In 1978 the company was manufacturing 30,000 OneSteps a day. Even after Eastman Kodak finally entered the instant-photo field in 1976, Polaroid roared forward, always one inspirational idea ahead of the competition...
This was not the first time that the sex magazine had a run-in with Kodak. Last July the film processor withheld 285 out of 2,000 slides showing Pet of the Year Cheryl Rixon. Eventually Penthouse's lawyer, Joseph Kraft, picked up the pictures at Kodak's plant at Fair Lawn, N.J., along with a warning not to ask for similar shots to be developed in the future. The magazine had been sending its Pet of the Month Kodachrome film to the company for developing for more than seven years. Only in those two cases...
...Kodak's legal justification for seizing "obscene" film is far from clear, but the company cites court rulings in Georgia and Texas to support its case. These, it argues, show that the firm may be held criminally liable for distributing pornography if it develops and returns sexually explicit photographs. Kodak has been quietly censoring commercial and family photos for decades. In the 1930s, snaps of nudes and even women in skimpy bathing suits were not returned; and in the '60s, neither were shots showing pubic hair. Both of those are now allowed, with the changing of public morals...
Kraft suggests that Kodak has recently tightened its standards. Penthouse first learned of the suspected tougher stance when a freelance photographer employed in Los Angeles had some slides withheld. Says Kraft: "We took a wait-and-see attitude. But when they kept a set of shots done by Guccione and followed that by withholding more film taken by our art director, we felt we could not sit back." Kraft adds that Penthouse has had calls from individuals who say that their slides were confiscated. He suggests that since the volume of amateur photography is far larger than that of professionals...