This color educational film is about how Kodak photographic paper is made. This is copyright circa the 1960s.

Opening: 99% water and 1% pulp is how paper starts (:09). A Volkswagen Beetle drives down a street; a Rolls Royce Phantom leaves a driveway (:19). Pictures being developed (:32). Pictures being printed (:48). A photo album’s pages being turned (:56). High resolution aerial map; seismic convulsions in the crust of the earth; Outer space data; Professional picture work (1:03). Opening titles: Paper Designed With You In Mind or The Quality Story of Kodak Professional Photographic Papers (1:24). Inside the John Howell Photographers Studio in Winnetka, CA as he takes a woman’s photo (1:52). Inside a commercial photo studio – Kranzten Studio in Chicago, IL (2:34). Items for sale in a catalog are being photographed and placed (2:50). Hoffman La Roche in New Jersey; new camera created by them (3:15). Photographs being printed (3:43). Aerial of a huge forest (3:54). Kodak Park (4:04). Pulp being looked at and tested by a chemist (4:16). Rolling and water is forced out and fiber is ready (4:54). Production of paper (5:11). Pulp and pure water are put together in a tank and mixed (5:20). Paper machine makes paper 5 miles long (5:48). A sheet 5 miles long (6:09). Water sprays complex equipment (6:15). Paper on a giant roll; a piece is taken as a sample to be tested (6:41). Different tests: Bursting test; stiffness test; penetration test; thickness test (7:02).Paper is slit into giant rolls (7:33). A coating for the paper done in an even layer (7:45). Smooth finish (8:00). Every roll goes into a stock room until it’s rechecked (8:55). Quality control tests (9:05). Emulsion making with chemical gelatin (9:15). Workers make emulsion (9:31). A man checks the paper rolls (9:52). Paper is ready to be coated after passing its tests (9:57). A man looks over the paper with the emulsion (10:28). A densitometer is a device that measures the degree of darkness (the optical density) of a photographic or semitransparent material or of a reflecting surface. The densitometer is basically a light source aimed at a photoelectric cell (10:43). A swellometer test (11:38). Chromatography, the separation of a mixture by passing it in solution or suspension or as a vapor (as in gas chromatography) through a medium in which the components move at different rates (11:55). Paper is cut into sheets and rolls (12:15). Boxes or finished photography paper (12:27). John Howell presents his photo proofs to a client (12:41). A woman’s picture is in a frame and picked up by a man and hung (13:08). At Kranzten Studio, photos are looked at by employees (13:12). A catalog’s pages are turned (13:44). Hoffman La Roche employees discuss in New Jersey (13:51). Photos being printed and turned on a machine (14:12). Boxes and boxes of paper (14:33). Different types of size and grades of Kodak paper, there are over 7,000 different kinds (14:46). End credits (15:37).

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