Summary

Scrapbook that was compiled by Kodak Australasia. It contains approximately 37 archival items produced in between 1968-73. The archival items range in size from 225mm x 152mm to 226mm x 306mm.

They include promotional leaflets and advertisements for Kodak products to be featured in catalogues for photgraphic salon exhibitions, film festivals, agricultural shows and other cultural festivals. Products included photographic paper, film, movie cameras and film cameras. Copy examples included, 'Color or black-and-white, you can rely on the supreme quality of Kodak sensitized materials', 'Catch the action day and night', 'Sweeten your sales drive with a kodak product', 'Don't be afraid of the dark', 'Bring back the fun this year', 'You could take this picture, we'll help' and 'You've a show of winning'.

Advertisements were featured from the following events, Sydney International Exhibition of Photography, Melbourne Salon of Photography, Brisbane International Color Slide Exhibition, Albury National Salon of Photography, A.P.S. Members Exhibition Adelaide Convention, Hawkesbury National Exhibition of Photography, Brookvale National Exhibition of Photography, A.S.C.O. Catalogue, Y.M.C.A. Camera Circle - 1969 Exhibition Catalogue, Parramatta National Exhibition of Photography, Jacaranda National Exhibition of Color, Photo Equipment Catalogue, Melbourne Moomba Festival Booklet, Burnie Show Catalogue. Tas., Red Hill National Exhibition of Photography, Victorian Salon of Photography, Alice Springs Film Festival, Warrnambool International Salon Programme, Orange National Exhibition Photography, QLD International Salon of Photography, Newcastle Salon of Photography, Daily Mirror Exhibition Press Photographic Catalogue, Maitland Salon of Photography, Physical Education and National Fitness Council Film Catalogue, Rockhampton Capricana Festival Booklet, Brisbane International Color Slide Exhibition, Hawkesbury Agricultural Assn. Photography Catalogue, Queensland Amateur Cine Society Award Films of 1970, Premium Show Catalogue, Launceston Show Catalogue, Murray Valley Tourist Guide. A typed and handwritten Index is located on the inside cover listing all these eventsand all the pages in the scrapbook have been numbered by hand in the top right corner, but many pages within the scrapbook have actually been left blank with no markings to suggest they had ever been used.

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.

This scrapbook 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.

Physical Description

Medium brown paper rectangular scrapbook with 104 brown paper pages containing catalogue advertisements. Scrapbook has small amounts of archival material within it but for large sections has been left blank. Most leaflets have been adhered with a combination of sticky tape with adhesive and occasionally metal staples too. A large number of the advertisements are loose within the scrapbook.

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