Word: kodaks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George ("Kodak") Eastman waxes intricate over "preparation of the base," "emulsions," "coating and packing...
Eleanor Boardman used to be the Eastman Kodak girl. On the backs of magazines she rested, smiling dreamily, in fields of daisies, wearing a picture hat. You saw her in drug-store windows and on billboards with pine trees or mountain peaks or salt waves, canyons, and, of course, cameras for a background. She had grown up and gone to school in Philadelphia and studied painting and interior decorating because she wanted to be able to do something. She had been trying to get in the film business as an art director when she took her first role...
...George Eastman's brief "Who" in Who's Who in America which explains that he was once an amateur photographer, is now chairman of the board of the Eastman Kodak Co., occurs the phrase "donor of more than $50,000,000 to instns. of higher edn." Last week Mr. Eastman increased his total educational donations by $200,000, establishing, through the Association of American Rhodes Scholars, a George Eastman Visiting Professorship at Oxford University. Said Mr. Eastman: "I am desirous of doing something that will assist Englishmen and Colonials and particularly the group destined to play an important...
...problem of making talking movies in natural colors is not yet solved, but last week Lloyd Ancile Jones of Eastman Kodak Laboratories told the Society of Motion Picture Engineers that Eastman had evolved a process for tinting whole scenes of talkies...
...another Progress Medalist is Director Charles Edward Kenneth Mees of the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory; in 1913, for work done in his native England. Medalist Sheppard is the man who discovered that "if the cows didn't eat mustard plant, we could have no movies" -a trace of sulphur compound in gelatine being essential to the speed of silver halide reactions in photography.-ED. Harding's Portrait...