Summary
Cardboard film box and blue plastic film reel which originally housed a 16mm motion film featuring a television advertisement for the Kodak Brownie Starflash Outfit, 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 film box with an orange and white production sticker on the front. Inside is a light blue plastic film reel.
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, 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
Lid, handwritten, blue ink: 'KODAK STARFLASH 60 SECONDS / KBS/3/60.' Front, sticker, printed, black ink: 'from / Berry Currie Hawkins (Vic.) Pty. Ltd. / 252 COLLINS STREET ... to:' Front, sticker, typed, black ink: 'KODAK( AUSTRALASIA) PTY. LTD / KODAK BROWNIE STARFLASH. / KBS/3/60 60 seconds. / 16mm. B.W. S.O.F. / "TEENAGE HIKE" '
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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
