Summary

Leaflet for Kodak (Australasia) Pty. Ltd. 'Get your free Kodak Catalogue of Kodachrome View Transparencies'. The transparencies are available as 35 mm slides in 2" by 2" mounts and cost 4/6d. each. On the reverse a range of views that can be printed as transparencies are listed, and there is an advertisement for duplicating existing transparencies. The leaflet is printed in black, yellow and white, and is unused.

Kodachrome processing started in the Kodak factory at Abbotsford in 1936. This was after Dr Neil Lewis and Mr Jack Monteith visited Kodak in Rochester to establish the requirements for setting up the facility. A new four storey building to be known as the "Kodachrome Building" was built for £300,000. Mr Stan Hawkins was the manager of the new department and remained so until the 1960s. 35mm slide, 16mm and 8mm movie films, as well as duplicates of motion picture films were processed at the facility.

It is part of the Kodak collection of products, promotional materials, photographs and working life artefacts collected from Kodak Australasia in 2005, when the Melbourne manufacturing plant at Coburg closed down.

Kodak manufactured and distributed a wide range of photographic products to Australasia, such as film, paper, chemicals, cameras and miscellaneous equipment. Its client base included amateur and professional photographers, as well as specialist medical and graphic art professionals who used photography, x-ray and other imaging techniques.

Physical Description

Small colour printed leaflet. Black, white and yellow background with black and yellow text.

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