Summary
Cardboard film box with blue plastic film reel. It originally housed a 16mm motion picture film featuring a television advertisement for Kodak film, made circa 1962.
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 white cardboard film box containing a blue plastic film reel. The box has a blue, white and red sticker on the front containing production details.
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
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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, 173 - 199 Elizabeth Street, Coburg, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1962
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Organisation Named
Berry Currie Advertising (VIC.) Pty Ltd, 252 Collins Street, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1962
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Organisation Named
Fanfare Films Pty Ltd, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1962
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Organisation Named
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Inscriptions
Front, sticker, printed, red ink: 'from Berry Currie Advertising (Vic) Pty. Ltd.' ... 'Offices at Sydney and Adelaide' Front, sticker, typed, black ink: CLIENT: Kodak (A'Asia) Pty. Ltd. / PRODUCT: Kodak General Film.'...'VIDEO: Open on C.U. of / black and white and colour film...' Side, handwritten, pencil: 'BCA 538' Reel, embossed: 'CINESOUND / PRODUCTIONS'
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Type of item
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Overall Dimensions
100 mm (Width), 25 mm (Depth), 100 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Photography, Manufacturing, Advertising, Motion Picture Films, Photographic Film, Television Production