Summary
A square cardboard film box with a Berry Currie and Hawkins production sticker. The box originally housed a black metal film reel and a16mm motion film featuring television advertisement for Kodacolor photographic film, made circa 1959.
This box 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
A square blue cardboard box with white sticker containing production details.
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Ms. Kate Metcalf - Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, 2005
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Acknowledgement
Courtesy of Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd.
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Organisation Named
Kodak (Australasia) Pty Ltd, Abbotsford, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1959
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Organisation Named
Advertising, Berry Currie Hawkins Pty Ltd, 252 Collins Street, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1959
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Inscriptions
Front, handwritten, blue ink: 'KODAK SPRING' Front, sticker, printed, black and grey ink: 'BERRY CURRIE HAWKINS (Vic.) PTY. LTD. / Advertising and Merchandising / REG'D OFFICE: 252 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE TELEPHONE 63- 7911' Front, sticker, typed, black ink: (Production details) Side, handwritten, blue ink: 'KODACOLOR "SPRING" KCL/3'
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Keywords
Photography, Manufacturing, Advertising, Motion Picture Films, Photographic Film, Television Production