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How Does Kodak Make Film? (Kodak Factory Tour Part 1of 3 - Film Support) - Smarter Every Day 271 (Patreon)

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2022-03-19 14:47:57
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2026-06

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This was an amazing opportunity.  I hope you enjoy it!  As an added bonus for being a Patron, I thought you'd enjoy the attached images.  They're FILM images of the world's first DIGITAL camera (which was made by Kodak).  I took the photos in haste because I was in a hurry, but it's still a VERY interesting concept!  I wonder if the people that invented the digital camera ever thought a guy would be coming back to their facility to talk about the film production process?

As always, thanks for supporting Smarter Every Day on Patreon!  I'm grateful that you trust me to do things like this.

Warm Regards,

Destin

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How Does Kodak Make Film? (Part 1 of 3) - Smarter Every Day 271

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Comments

Andrew Maxey

I love it - digital versions of analog images of something that can take digital images of everything in the world but itself.

James Treharne

TIL the answer to the question "Does Kodak Make Film?" is still "yes"

Ulrich Kempken

Oh, wow, just finished watching it... what an amazing manufacturing line and process. It has a lot of charm of the olden days. Also everyone in this video is just great. Thank you for sharing Destin!

David Atwood

I feel like this was a missed opportunity. My step dad was the go-to mechanical engineer for troubleshooting the film making equipment. He specialized in the high speed equipment like the slitter. He retired a couple years ago after a 35+ year career with Kodak and has worked at plants in Windsor, Rochester, Paris, and Mexico City (and maybe more I don't know). Anyway, this is cool seeing your take on all the equipment he helped build and troubleshoot all these years.

Joshua Griffes

This is amazing. And also amazing it’s only one part of the process. I LOVE videos like this that explore the process of how things are made.

Travis Brown

This is orders of magnitude better than any discovery channel show ever made. Thanks again Destin for a fantastic video and the length is amazing! Can’t wait for the other two parts!

Elayna Simmons

I am loving the film photos you took, Destin! The authentic excitement is shown by the thumb in the frame in one of them. :)

Aaron Champaign

I live about 45 minutes from Rochster NY and have been to the Eastman Kodak estate and museum several times it is an awesome place. Glad to hear that you came to upstate NY to visit a place near me.

Lisa Wyzard

This is great! I am so excited that Kodak is still making actual film; I'd thought the camera/film part of the company went bankrupt and closed down. I have such happy memories of Kodak cameras and taking pictures. Destin, this is one happy Patron! Thank you.

David H

Wow, 1975?

Hayden Nelson

Destin! Thank you for this video! Ever since your first video I got my grandfathers old camera out and I have been shooting on film. I LOVE IT! I have been looking for a good “how it’s made” video but I haven’t been able to find one, until now. I’ve been watching your channel for years now and I’m finally in a position to be a patron! Fun fact I kinda made it into the matrix program at UAH but it ended up not working out. Thanks for the great videos and so happy to be a patron!

Mark Sundstrom

Wow. So many interesting things going on here. I wonder about the people who figured out the product line, what worked and what didn't, what temperatures to use, how to stretch and when, etc. And how do you start and stop this line; how long does that take. How do you decide what is important to measure for quality control and what isn't. So much going on. Thanks! Looking forward to the other videos.

Doug Boss

Thanks Destin - I grew up in a suburb of Rochester and my Grandfather worked there for 30 or more years in the 20s and 30s . When I was growing up Kodak was the employer of a huge percentage of the city. I've ALWAYS wanted to see the behind-the-scenes of Kodak park. It's amazing. Your footage gives me chills so thank you. I hope you had the chance to go see the George Eastman house while you were there. Its amazing. Thanks again And thanks for the sticker

Nathan Lesley

So neat to see the similarities to rolling steel! You should come to the steel mill I work at!

Blake Allen

Okay, question completely unrelated to the video: IS YOUR LITTLE MOUSE LOGO MY BOY REEPICHEEP??

Matt Larson

Destin, I just got my baseball sticker. I was so surprised and not expecting it. You made my day! Keep up the great work!

Leonard Wells

Destin, I started in photography when I was 16, I am 65!! I taught myself to use the darkroom at 16. I worked in a commercial darkroom at 17. I did chem mix and QC plus ran the dip and dunk machine like you showed in your darkroom episode. I shot everyone from Alice Cooper to Elvis and from LBJ to Ronald Reagan. Now I shoot nature under Naturally Louisiana. I still have about 15 film cameras but I have switched to digital. I really miss my darkroom!! BTW - I've worked in the chemical industry for 44 yrs. The control room looks a lot like it did when I started before computers!! Thanks for this video!!

walter hollenstein

Hey might be helpful to look at 3d printer filament creation works. The process for going from pellets to filament is very similar if simplified. You would have the auger creating the pressure, a stainless steel reusable filter, and gross extrusion diameter being deteimined using similar tools then using material direction relative to gravity, feed rate and tension used to gain the final overall diameter. It would also be a good way to demonstrate glass transition phases for why the heating and cooling is done at such specific temperatures. If you wanted to explore this deeper it is possible to setup a basic one of these systems in a garage for a few hundred dollars (less if your handy and don't mind messing around). All said and done I enjoued this video. It felt like a great melding of my current life with to going to work with my father work on machines like this as a kid and learning some of the equipment used in large scale manufacturing (maintenance engineers definately have the best bring your kid to work days:) )

Jack Griffiths

As always, thank you so much for the effort you put into enlightening the world on things that I never thought I'd get to know about!

Joshua Pulliam

That is too cool! Smarter Everyday presents: How It’s Made!

Andy D

Destin- you ask such great questions which 1) lets the person responding really shine and 2) educates viewers like us. I love all of these videos. Thanks for making them.

wanderinginsomnia

really cool seeing the manufacturing process. this totally inspired me to dig my old Contax film camera out of my parents' attic

benbuc

Hey Destin what an amazing video again and thanks a lot for getting me started in analog photography a while ago. I have one question though (maybe it will be answered in future videos?): How do they get all of this started? Would be super interesting to know how especially for the last stations. How do they do a cold start and how often is this needed? I am assuming they have to for maintenance or exchanging machinery, ...

Derek Erdmann

The important question is did you eat a garbage plate while you were in Rochester?

Mr. Hunter Jones

There is so much technology at work there to make that one element of the final product! Really cool that they gave you access to the plant. I have worked on high speed Kodak digital printers (300 images a minute) for many years. The solutions they created for those machines still work pretty well almost 30 years later.

Ben Oliver

i like it very interesting

Marc Mulder

I really enjoyed watching how excited you were about this video!

Marty Brenneis

It is interesting to see your take on how film works. Back in the 80's I was working with a stop motion animator. He had a technique to make motion blur in stop motion shots by shooting multiple exposures on the same frame and moving the part that needed blur, like a puppet arm. The problem was that 3 one second exposures did not match 1 3 second exposure. And 3 exposures 1 second apart were different than 3 exposures 30 seconds apart. I was tasked with solving for a way to make a controller to do triple frame exposures with the least amount of exposure breathing. It was quite an adventure learning about things like reciprocity failure. I fell down the rabbit hole to learn how film worked at the molecular level. A handy book that I hope you have is Neblett's handbook of photography and reprography. If you don't have a copy be careful about getting one, you might look up several days later after reading the whole thing. I'm waiting with baited breath for the next installment.

Warren DeMars

Great video Destin. I've got a couple old Canon cameras I need to dust off and start using again.

Andy Buteyn

I am so excited about the next two parts. I have watched this four times now, I don't know why I love this process so much, but I do

EpicWolverine

Finally got to watching this. Very, very cool. I was surprised to see a cassette tape on the side of that camera, but, duh, it’s the most obvious solution for a cheap, portable digital recording medium in ‘75.

Traci Stephenson

I learn so much from you Destin. I had no idea film was so complicated and precise!