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...American cinema filmed on an off-Broadway stage by Jonas and Adolfas Mekas (Hallelujah the Hills) with such brutish authenticity that it won a Venice festival grand prize as best documentary. Part drama, part polemic, with shockwave sound and a nightmare air that suggests Kafka with a Kodak, the movie does exactly what it sets out to do-seizes an audience by the shirtfront and slams it around from wall to wall for one grueling day in a Marine Corps lockup...
...began when giant Eastman Kodak last year introduced its new Instamatic camera, which eliminated the fussing that bedevils many amateurs. It has film cartridges that pop in without threading and out without rewinding, and a device that automatically sets the lens opening. In the new, consumer-oriented Europe, the modestly priced ($9 to $75) Instamatic clicked immediately: in the first year some half-million were sold in camera-making Germany, where only 49% of all families own cameras (v. 85% in the U.S.). It has also been a big success worldwide: U.S. exports of still cameras have tripled since early...
...Kodak's competitors quickly got the picture, concluded that the Instamatic was tapping a potentially vast market of people who had never before bought cameras. West Germany's Agfa, which had leisurely been developing a cartridge system of its own, rushed the project to completion, made an agreement with 27 European and Japanese firms to introduce a competitive series of "Rapid" cartridge cameras. About half a million Rapids-which are priced roughly in line with Kodak's less expensive models-were sold in Europe during the first ten weeks they were on sale. The two new camera...
...Kodak is not unduly upset by the turn of events, figures that the introduction of cartridge-loading cameras is such a revolutionary advance that it will result in more business for everyone. Besides, Kodak film is the world's biggest seller: it is the only film that fits the Instamatic, and it does not fit the Rapid. Mindful of such facts and anxious to click both ends of the market, eleven major Japanese producers who are licensed to make Rapid cameras last week signed up with Kodak to begin producing Instamatics...
...cope with the staggering information explosion in both business and government, a whole new electronic technology is fast developing that can store, catalogue and recall facts and figures in a pushbutton flash. Among the more sophisticated "information-retrieval" systems, Stromberg-Carlson has produced its 4020, Eastman Kodak its Recordak Miracode, RCA its 3488 and IBM its Walnut, which is used by the Central Intelligence Agency. Last week California's Ampex Corp. introduced the latest retrieval machine, a completely automated microfiling system that allows the searcher to edit his material as he selects...