John Menick Blog | Archive for September, 2006

From The Guardian:

An era in amateur film-making is coming to an end. The factory in Lausanne, Switzerland, that processes Europe’s supplies of Kodachrome - grainy, colour-saturated frames of 8mm film that have convinced a generation that their 60s and 70s childhood and adolescence was spent leaping through flowers in a Technicolor haze - is shutting its doors on Saturday. The ritual of shooting a three-minute masterpiece on your Super 8 camera, sending off the film in a little yellow envelope and waiting with barely contained excitement for the ready-to-project reel to drop on to the doormat is over. If you want to get your Kodachrome film developed now, you are going to have to get in touch with an outfit in Kansas called Dwayne’s Photo, and hope for the best.

Wired on declassified tables of contents from spy magazines.

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