Item MM 147730 Slide - Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd, Man Operating Ektaprint Processor Model 2, Color Print Processing, Building 2, Coburg, circa 1960s

Summary

Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd employee operating a colour Ektaprint Processor Model 2 machine in the Color Print Processing Department in Building 20 at the company's factory in Coburg, circa 1960s.

Colour slide from a 'photo file' contained in a green binder. The file covered a range of topics including advertising; the newly built distribution centre; silver recovery; staff and Kodak Australasia Pty Ltd branches around Australia. The slides were divided into two sections entitled 'Kodak Buildings Coburg' and 'Kodak Buildings Interstate'.

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 and a watch on his left arm is operating a colour processing and printing machine, the Ektaprint Processor Model 2, which has four strips of colour prints winding onto four film reels.

Physical Description

Positive colour film mounted in a slide frame.