Summary
Cardboard film box which originally housed a black metal film reel and a16mm motion film featuring a television advertisement for the Kodak Brownie Starlet Outfit, 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 square red and yellow film box with a sticker on the front listing 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, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1962
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Inscriptions
Front, sticker, printed, red ink: 'Berry Currie Advertising Pty. Ltd.' Front, sticker, printed and typed, black ink: 'SYDNEY. MELBOURNE. ADELAIDE' / (Two rows of black and gold dots) / 'Television Commercial / CLIENT: Kodak (A'Asia) Pty.Ltd / ... PRODUCT: BROWNIE STARLET OUTFIT / VIDEO CUE: / AUDIO CUE: ' Side, handwritten, pencil: 'BCA / 568' Base and lid, printed, yellow ink: 'RECORDAK FILM RECORDS' Back, printed, yellow and red ink: 'RECORDAK 16mm x 100ft. FILM STORAGE / "RECORDAK" IS A TRADE MARK'
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Classification
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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, Cameras, Television Production, Photographic Accessories