—”They still make photographic film for printing from your digitals.”
From mighty to mini, a sad tale.
Many interesting articles on this event, when they were on top of their game:
“In August 1945, shortly after the bombing of Hiroshima, the Kodak Company observed spotting and fogging on their film, which was at that time usually packaged in cardboard containers. Dr. J. H. Webb, a Kodak employee, studied the matter and concluded that the contamination must have come from a nuclear explosion somewhere in the United States. He discounted the possibility that the Hiroshima bomb was responsible, due to the timing of the events. A hot spot of fallout contaminated the river water that a paper mill in Indiana used to manufacture the cardboard pulp from corn husks.[148] Aware of the gravity of his discovery, Dr. Webb kept this secret until 1949”
Even more interesting is that roll paper film, the product that launched Eastman-Kodak, was actually invented by a gentleman farmer named David Henderson Houston in Dakota Territory who sold or was cheated out of the patent (depending whose story you believe) by founder George Eastman.
So the irony is that they are currently left with basically just the product that launched the company, albeit in a technologically advanced form.