Summary

Male worker standing near the rewind end of the film slitting machine in Building 4, Roll Film, at the Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd factory, Coburg, 1973. This view shows the number of slits wound after slitting slots in which spools of film were cut from a large reel of uncut film and the bulk roll being fed through the unwind end of the machine.

Colour slide from a lecture series titled 'Kodak in Australia...Coburg', issued by the Kodak Marketing Education department of Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd, circa 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 wearing white overalls operating a large machine with a sheet of plastic film wound through it that is cut into strands at the front of the machine. Two other staff in white overalls can be partially seen at right.

Physical Description

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

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