Word: kodaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world winked open and shut last week, a finished article. It was a long-range camera for the Army air service, with a nine-inch lens (the largest ever ground for a camera) to photograph the earth from an altitude of seven miles or so. Experts of the Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, N. Y.) had fashioned it, providing also a film specially sensitized to record light at the infra-red (long wave, dull light) end of the spectrum, a film taking exposures nine inches square, 100 exposures to a roll. Lieut. George W. Goddard will soon have the camera mounted...
From Rochester, N. Y., locus of the Eastman Kodak Works, came news. An experiment had been made with aerial photography at night by flashlight. A Martin bomber 3000 feet up dropped 50 pounds of flashlight powder which was detonated in midair. Seven special cameras and a cinema machine clicked. There was a swift and powerful flash-it lasted only one-fiftieth of a second-then a tremendous explosion "rocked the buildings," "broke windows" (a few). The photographs were a "success." "Useful in war," said observers...
Directors of the Eastman Kodak Co. paid 75? a share on the common stock...
Awards for individual advertisements in 1924 were made to the Metropolitan insurance Company, to Erma Perham Proetz of the Gardner Advertising Company of St. Louis, and to L. Hayward Bartlett of the Eastman Kodak Company of Rochester...
There were also three awards for distinguished individual advertisements. Mr. L. Hayward Bartlett of the Eastman Kodak Company received the $1000 award for the advertisement most effectively accomplishing its purpose in a few words. His caption was the now well known household maxim, "Keep a Kodak Story of the Children." The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and Erma Perham Proetz each won $1000 for two advertisements entitled "100 Years to a Day" and "Take Baby...