Kodak 1922 Kodachrome Film Test
Posted by admin in Kindle Wednesday, 5 January 2011 03:48 25 Comments
A sample of some of the earliest color motion picture film you will see. Visit Kodak’s A Thousand Words blog for a post about the video: 1000words.kodak.com Music: Killer Tracks CD entitled: KT223 (Inspire). First track used is called “Breath,” the second is called “Kindle.” This footage is from the George Eastman House collections. Preservation was completed by the museum’s Motion Picture Department, a project of Sabrina Negri, a student in Eastman House’s L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation and a recipient of the Haghefilm Foundation Fellowship.
RIP, kodachrome. Does anyone else feel sort of sad having to bear witness to the death of an invention that was a living connection from us to these figures from decades ago?
what is the music ? its very nice!
This almost moved me to tears by the end. Kodak should use this as an advertisement in movie theaters.
@BatoNY65 you gotta love it though!
@IMaximusDMI
That’s bullshit talk.
@deepseadirt 1:11-1:49 is the same woman and it is Mary Eaton, zero doubt. Sorry you can’t accept this is as fact but I promise you it is true. The curly brown hair is her natural hair, there is no change in her hair from the dark green period costume to the teal-colored drop waist dress. Her curls are tucked into her cloche hat in the next scene. Compare her profile in each scene. It is the same woman – Mary Eaton. There are many pictures of her in Century Girl, a book about her sister Doris.
watching Mae Murray in color is more than a rarity, thanks for this treasure.
GAY
what is the name of the song(s)?
@thebigrene1972 Obviously I’m not from the time period. But I’d imagine back then, beauty was what YOU made of it, not some super model on a reality show or some magazine staff. Today, media has far more of an influence over everything. Sad, but it is what it is.
It looks like Art Nouveau, Art Deco or William Morris to me. Kind of Medieval pastoral revival that was popular in the early 20th century.
wow so beautiful and creepy at the same time
This is twelve years prior to when the film was actually commercially sold to the public. Crazy.
@Fluxion29 Thank the progressive 60s for that. Everything changed and went down hill from there.
@modshroom Yup and we will never have such lovely lads in these modern times.
@coptersoisoi Probably not because we ate better back then. There were family farms, no high fructose corn syrup junk food, more whole foods, folks cooked and there was no fast food or salty tv dinners.
@thebigrene1972 @thebigrene1972 I totally agree. That being said the lack of skin tones other than white also indicates a less healthy aspect of the time. I wish they had tried for a couple of full close ups too. Still, it’s a very interesting piece of history and aesthetic…
@thebigrene1972 I totally agree. That being said the lack of skin tones other than white also indicates a less healthy aspect of the time. I wish they had tried for a couple of full close ups too. Still, it’s a very interesting piece of history and aesthetic…
@thebigrene1972 See, it sort of bothers me when people say girls need to be “skinny”. Girls should be in shape because, well, that’s healthy, but that doesn’t mean she is going to be a size 2.
@modshroom I was thinking the same thing.
Thank you for this timeless jewel of Human experience….
And, today, gone.
Cute girls of Rochester.
@shoney
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first girl reminds me of the big cheeked chick from Eraserhead