{"id":4898,"date":"2015-07-19T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=4898"},"modified":"2016-08-27T12:31:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T16:31:39","slug":"kodak-building-56-dissolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/kodak-building-56-dissolves\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodak Building 56 dissolves"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Kodak<\/a>

Kodak Building 56<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. In the early hours yesterday another Kodak building disappeared forever as a demolition company in Rochester quietly imploded the structure which once housed 18 acetate roll coating machines.<\/p>\n

In my youth, Kodak was a \u00a0huge force in photography with world-wide facilities. In fact, well\u00a0into the late 1990s, Kodak<\/a> remained a powerful organization. As the new century unfolded, Kodak began to stumble and fall. In early 2012 the hallmark of the photographic industry declared bankruptcy and an end to the era of chemical photography.<\/p>\n

Back in 1990, Douglas Collins had written\u00a0a coffee table size book “The Story of Kodak<\/em>“. Only the final chapter on the future of photography discussed\u00a0electronic<\/em> or still video<\/em> photography as it was called. In the late 1980s when the book’s contents were written, consensus was that tradition film would co-exist with the much poorer quality electronic technology well into the 21st century – people wanted prints for memories rather than fleeting TV images.<\/p>\n

Robert Shanebrook, a writer<\/a>, got up early to record the implosion. According to the EXIF data, Shanebrook\u00a0snapped this shot at 6:57am with a Nikon D5000. In the accompanying text, he stated, “Viewing was easy\u00a0 but\u00a0 I\u00a0 saw\u00a0 very\u00a0 few\u00a0 people.\u00a0 There was no\u00a0 public\u00a0 event but it is hard to hide the collapse of such a large building.<\/em> “. Bob Lansdale passed on to me three stills by Robert Shanebrook, courtesy of Nick Graver.<\/p>\n

An hour and a half later, I had an email from Russ Forfar which included this link<\/a> to a BBC video showing\u00a0the implosion of building 56. \u00a0My thanks to both Bob Lansdale and Russ Forfar for bringing this event to my attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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