Summary

Male worker at the winder end of an emulsion coating machine (also known as a film coating machine). He is preparing to wind up the leader after the film was run through the machine in Building 3, Emulsion Coating, at the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd factory at Coburg, 1973.

Colour slide from a lecture series titled 'Kodak in Australia...Coburg', issued by the Kodak Marketing Education department of Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd, 1970s. It was originally housed with other slides in a yellow Kodak branded binder. Images in the binder include views of the Coburg factory site, workers, and graphic diagrams showing the various departments and staff hierarchy.

This object is part of the Kodak Heritage 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.

Description of Content

Man in white overalls and hat bending towards a machine comprising of a series of rollers. A clear roll of film can be seen travelling through the machine.

Physical Description

35mm, positive colour film mounted in a cardboard slide frame.

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