Summary
Cardboard film box which originally housed an orange plastic film reel and a 16mm motion film featuring a television advertisement for the Kodak Brownie Automatic Movie Camera, made circa 1961.
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 cardboard film box with the Senior Film Productions 'eye' logo on the back. A round sticker on the front of the box is printed with black and gold dots on the top half and production details listed below.
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, 1961
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Organisation Named
Berry Currie Advertising (VIC.) Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1961
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Organisation Named
Senior Film Productions Pty Ltd, Greater Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1961
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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 / ... / VIDEO CUE: (Model Car Racing) / AUDIO CUE: MUSIC: No Place / Like Home Theme. ' Side, printed, red ink: 'SFP / PRODUCT: / CAPTION / KEY No.: / LENGTH:' Side, handwritten, blue and green ink: 'Kodak / Model / Car / Racing / BCA555 / 60 sec' Back, printed, grey ink: (inside a grey eye symbol) 'Senior / Film / Productions...' (outside the eye logo) 'RELEASE PRINT'
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Classification
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Category
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Discipline
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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, Motion Picture Film Cameras, Packaging, Television Production, Box Cameras
