Summary

A 16mm motion picture film featuring a television advertisement for the Kodak Brownie Starflash camera outfit, 1961.

The commercial is part of the Kodak 'No Place Like Home' campaign and was produced by Senior Film Productions in 1961 for Berry Currie Advertising, who were commissioned by Kodak Australasia.

The Brownie Starflash Camera was a popular snapshot camera that was part of the Kodak Star range of cheap, easy to use cameras. It had a plastic body, fixed focus Dakon lens and used 127 roll film. It had a built-in flash with a parabolic reflector and used a single, small flash bulb. The Kodak Brownie Starflash range of cameras were made between circa 1957 and 1965.

This film 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.

Description of Content

Television commercial for Kodak Starflash Outfit. It opens on a cartoon house, cutting to a live action shot where a young girl and her dog are having a tea party. The mother comes in to photograph her. It zooms out on a cardboard cut-out house and pans down to the Starflash Outfit explaining pricing and availability. There is music and male voice over narration throughout.

Physical Description

16mm cellulose acetate motion picture film; Black and White; Television commercial (TVC); Optical sound; 1961

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