a 1950s ‘automated’ colour darkroom
Toronto. In a March, 1950 article in Popular Science magazine, a “Robot” was shown in a military darkroom. The gadget processed 8×10 colour negatives. A time was MANUALLY set for each bath, then the Robot took over, dunking the films in each bath for the specified time, then moving the batch on to the next tank.
Not quite our idea of a “Robot” today – too much physical set up was needed. And not a computer in sight …
Thank you to George Dunbar for this innovative bit of photographic history in the days of 8×10 colour film.
The post title is the name of a short story collection by Isaac Asimov, who wrote many, many Science Fiction stories, some of which I may have read as a youth.
