Making KODAK film

Abstract

"Contains all the information that is in the ninety-four first edition plus: 1. History of film base manufacturing including American Film, cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate, Estar Base and others. 2. Expanded discussion of historic and modern emulsion making processes and equipment. 3. History of coating technology and expanded discussion of curtain coating including photographs of an operating Kodak curtain coater and the thread-up path of Kodak's coating machine. 4. Expanded description and photographs of finished film configurations and the finishing processes. Of special interest is motion picture film finishing using high speed T-perforators. 5. More detailed descriptions of photographic film image forming mechanisms. 6. Technical descriptions and history of Kodak Films that are used for consumer, professional, motion picture, x-ray, micrographic, graphic, aerial, and scientific applications. 7. Description of past and current Kodak Worldwide manufacturing plants, interactions between the plants, and technology transfers. 8. First-hand description of working in Kodak's film business in the 1980's. 9. Information based on private communications with over 100 photographic experts. 10. Addition of over 225 photographs and diagrams. 11. Identification of sources of information; over 600 footnoted references. 12. A table of figures and an index to facilitate finding information in the book."--Page xvi.

Contents

2. How film photography works -- 3. Film design -- 4. Commercialization processes -- 5. Kodak Professional Portra films, an example -- 6. Making silver halide photographic film -- 7. Photographic plate and film base -- 8. Synthetic chemicals -- 9. Film emulsion manufacturing and coating -- 10. Film emulsion manufacturing -- 11. Film base coating -- 12. Finishing and film packaging -- 13. Summary of the film manufacturing process -- 14. Film quality -- 15. Worldwide film manufacturing -- 16. Film identification -- 17. Film products -- 18. Working on Kodak film the the late 1980's -- 19. Does the film manufacturing process work? -- 20. Kodak film manufacturing in 2016 -- 21. George Eastman.