This 1980 color educational film, “The Film/Paper Story” was presented by the Eastman Kodak Company. A clown applies white, red, and black face paint. He puts on his wig, red nose, and white gloves. He creates a balloon dog, followed by a photo of him (:14-:39). Images followed by photos are of bicycling, roller skating, skateboarding, tennis, birthday cake candles, strumming a guitar, golf, football, cereal, waxing a saddle, grilling hotdogs, and a wedding (:40-1:34). The narrator exposes silver salts to light, washes the paper, and a black and white image appears (1:36-2:10). To create color prints, he stacks the photos in the yellow, magenta, and cyan. He stacks these emulsions on a touch support block with filters in between (2:19-3:34). A man points to scientific notation on a chalkboard (3:38-4:02). A development engineer checks metal emulsion tanks full of liquid and tubes (4:03-4:48). A faint light is turned on to see the emulsion tanks. Various machines measure the results. A man fills a tube from the tank and sends it through a chute to the testing lab. Batches of emulsion are in cold storage. The testing machines are shown (4:50-6:30). The support base can be clear plastic film or paper. (6:35-7:08). The film base begins as cellulose, which is combined with acetic acid, creating pellets of cellulose acetate, which are mixed with solvents and a plasticizer to create a plastic syrup (7:15-7:49). The plastic syrup is shown being mixed in a large machine, and spread thin and smooth on a large wheel. The coating machines are shown from above. The plastic hardens and peels off the wheel as film base, which gets an adhesive added. This is wound on a large spool. A piece is removed and sent to the quality control lab to check for scratches and tested before storage (7:51-9:38). Bundles of premium high-grade cellulose pulp are moved forklift and dropped into a hydrapulper. The agitator breaks the sheets into a slurry. The master control room is shown. The slurry moves on a screen and form a wide sheet of paper. Heated rollers squeeze the water out and wind paper on a five-mile roll. Samples are sent to the lab for testing. The rolls are split into thirds and given a resin coating (10:00-12:18). Workers get dressed in white, and pass through a large vacuum cleaner. One presses a red button to begin the coating process. An infrared scope is used to examine the process (12:23-14:00). The film is rolled and samples sent for testing in a PG 5500 photometric unit and other machines (14:01-14:55). The film is cut into various widths, spooled onto cartridges, and edge perforations punched, Kodak labels attached, sealed in moisture-proof wrappers, and packaged. Some cartridges are tested (4:56-17:05). The narrator takes a Polaroid picture, which contains its own darkroom. The components and the cartridge assembly machines are shown (17:06-20:06). Photos shown are of children with a beach ball, baseball, horses, reading with a grandchild, happy people, and scenery (20:08-20:39).

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