Kodak says it will continue to make film!!!!!!

[Light Guru]

Big big news Kodak today. Film manufacturing will stay with Kodak.

"Kodak will continue to manufacture and distribute its quality line of motion picture film products. As a matter of fact, all film manufacturing will actually stay with Kodak, including that of consumer and professional still film. We will continue providing our entertainment customers with the products and support they have come to depend upon from Kodak."



Read more: http://motion.kodak.com/motion/About...#ixzz25ifSRv4u

[Drew Wiley]

I'd take any rumor at this point with a grain of salt. Even within a corporation like this, the
right hand might not know what the left is doing. I've heard very conflicting "official" pronouncements over the years from Fuji too. Time will tell. Maybe they were just sending
out a trial balloon to see if anyone was interested.

[Robert Budding]

That must mean that the entire company is up for sale now . . .

[vinny]

whatever.

[bob carnie]

I have to agree, this thing is getting so boring , one day on one day off,

whatever.

[Bob Salomon]

Or they can't sell the film making division for the price they expected.

[Richard Wasserman]

I was talking with the owner of a small independent movie theater yesterday. He has just invested $250,000 in digital projection systems because after January 1, 2013 all movies will be digitally projected and optical prints for projection will no longer be available. 20th Century Fox according to him had digitized their entire inventory, including cartoons, and had destroyed the film. I assume other studios are doing the same. I think the film market is shrinking....

[timparkin]

I was talking with the owner of a small independent movie theater yesterday. He has just invested $250,000 in digital projection systems because after January 1, 2013 all movies will be digitally projected and optical prints for projection will no longer be available. 20th Century Fox according to him had digitized their entire inventory, including cartoons, and had destroyed the film. I assume other studios are doing the same. I think the film market is shrinking....

Well he doesn't know what he's talking about because film is now recognised as the 'only' archival option for long term storage of motion pictures - this includes the transference of 100% digital move production to film for storage. There is a great white paper called 'the digital dilemma' worth taking a gander at. Also even though final projection is digital in many 1st world countries. These systems are still way out of reach for most third world countries and hence distribution on film will still be important.

Kodak have just signed a three year contract to supply film to Disney, Warners, NBCU and Paramount (although there is a 180 day sunset clause).

[Frank Petronio]

It's confusing because still consumer, still professional, and movie film are all made in the same place, so how they sell only part of that sounds complicated....

[Jim C.]

I was talking with the owner of a small independent movie theater yesterday. He has just invested $250,000 in digital projection systems because after January 1, 2013 all movies will be digitally projected and optical prints for projection will no longer be available. 20th Century Fox according to him had digitized their entire inventory, including cartoons, and had destroyed the film. I assume other studios are doing the same. I think the film market is shrinking....

Utter nonsense, as timparkin said film is the only archival option, still film negs over a century old are still viable, sadly many motion picture
films that were nitrate based are lost forever. That independent theatre owner should look at the supplement on the restoration of Jaws bluray,
after all the digital hoo hah they made a new film negative for preservation.