Summary
Cardboard film box and lime green plastic film reel which originally housed a 16mm motion film featuring a television advertisement for the Kodak 8 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 a lime green plastic reel inside. The box has a Senior Film Productions camera 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: Birthday scene. / AUDIO CUE: MUSIC: No Place Like / Home Theme. ' Side, printed, pink ink: 'PRODUCT: / CAPTION: / KEY No.: / LENGTH:' Side, handwritten, pencil: '581' Back, printed, pink and black ink: (inside a pink TV screen shaped box) 'A / Senior / film /productions / Melbourne (grey camera logo' / (outside the pink box) 'PRODUCT: CAPTION: / KEY NO.: LENGTH: / AGENCY: / RELEASE PRINT' Back, handwritten, black ink: ' Kodak 8mm Movie Camera / BCA 581. 30 secs. / B.C.A.
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Classification
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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, Cameras, Television Production, Promotional Materials, Box Cameras
