EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, manufacturer of pho tographic equipment and materials, with plants in the United States, Canada, England, France, Germany, Hungary and Aus tralia, and retail outlets on all the different continents, supplies Kodaks, Cine-Kodaks, studio cameras, lenses; Kodak, Cine Kodak, professional, X-ray film and the bulk of standard motion picture film that are used throughout the world; photographic chemicals, laboratory equipment, a large assortment of organic chemicals, non-photographic nitro-cellulose and cellulose-acetate products, photographic albums and accessories ; and various other photographic supplies. The Tennessee Eastman Corporation, a subsidiary organization, produces cellulose acetate for safety-film manufacture, acetate yarn, a cellulose-acetate molding composi tion, and other related products. The Recordak Corporation sup plies to banks an automatic miniature check photographer. The Eastman Teaching Films division provides school-rooms with edu cational films.
The industry began with the photographic dry plate business founded by George Eastman in 1880. After expanding and chang ing its name, it became in 1901, the Eastman Kodak Company of New Jersey, a holding company for the Eastman Kodak Company in America, Kodak, Limited, in Europe, and other subsidiaries. In 1889 George Eastman and associates developed a film for ama teur photography. The Kodak, the first compact, portable camera, was invented the year before. In 1891 daylight loading was intro duced. The Autographic Kodak appeared in 1914; in 1923 the Cine-Kodak, an amateur motion picture camera, and, later, Ko dachrome, amateur motion pictures in full natural colours were perfected. The chief Eastman plant, which is at Rochester, N.Y., has large research laboratories (Kodak Park) and it employs over two hundred scientists producing important photographic develop ments. An associated research laboratory was established in Harrow, England, in 1928. (F. C. E.)