{"id":24976,"date":"2023-01-17T01:03:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T05:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24976"},"modified":"2023-01-14T22:54:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T02:54:16","slug":"a-colourful-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-colourful-projection\/","title":{"rendered":"a colourful projection\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24977\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Kodak-Popular-Mechanics-Oct.-1949.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24977\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24977\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Kodak-Popular-Mechanics-Oct.-1949-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Kodak 2A projector shown in an October, 1949 ad for Kodak projectors, etc.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Most of you don&#8217;t remember seeing colour slides let alone colour projectors. I used to buy the Kodak frames to hold self-developed 35mm transparencies by Agfa (colour slides) in those pre-carousel days.<\/p>\n<p>A household \u00a0iron sealed the each Kodak frame (folded in half over the single colour transparency). If you avoided touching the delicate transparency with the iron, a projectable and viewable slide resulted.<\/p>\n<p>A few years after WW2, Kodak promoted some new ideas like colour movies, Kodachrome slides, and the then ubiquitous slide projectors. Once the innovative <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carousel_slide_projector\">Carousel<\/a> series from Kodak hit the market, slide projector design changed forever.<\/p>\n<p>A few decades later, when smart phones and the digital wave hit, even the Carousel design and its competitors disappeared into history.<\/p>\n<p>In this post, we have an interesting advertisement from 1949 courtesy of George Dunbar and his investigation of ads and articles that reflect North American photographic history in the last century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Most of you don&#8217;t remember seeing colour slides let alone colour projectors. I used to buy the Kodak frames to hold self-developed 35mm transparencies by Agfa (colour slides) in those pre-carousel days. A household \u00a0iron sealed the each Kodak &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/a-colourful-projection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[564,4041,315,15,21,1450,3344,1042],"class_list":["post-24976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-35mm","tag-carousel","tag-color","tag-colour","tag-kodak","tag-projector","tag-slide-projector","tag-slides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24976"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24982,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24976\/revisions\/24982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}