The last roll of kodachrome - National geographic

[RobertP]

Came across a link to this video on youtube..

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It's about 25 minutes long with some strange editing clips and blank sections at the end. Shame its not in HD.

If it's already posted here somewhere let me know.

 

[Cagey75]

That was cool. I've seen this guy's work before. I doubt DeNiro would just sit for anyone for any reason, he seemed to enjoy the significance.

It's really 23mins long, then there's some silent bits muddled up and some empty space, then a cut scene at around 28 min's.

 

[HoppyUK]

Thanks for that Robert, nice tribute. Good snapper Steve McCurry. Here's a link to those last ever images he made http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/02/last-kodachrome-slide-show-201102#slide=31

Might have missed it, but I'm not sure they made quite enough of how significant Kodachrome was, how long it was made for (from 1935 to 2009!), its unique emulsion and laborious processing that made it so sharp and saturated - and it took could take three weeks to get your film back in the busy months

But while I was getting all dewy eyed, I remember the last roll of Kodachrome I shot was on honeymoon in 1983. She's never forgiven me for shooting that on slide film, as getting good prints off it was hard/expensive pre-scanning technology.

 

[joxby]

Might have missed it, but I'm not sure they made quite enough of how significant Kodachrome was.......

Agreed, in the intro the narrator goes on to say, but for this McCurrie "tribute" Kodachrome's passing would be an event that occurred without fanfare.
Which is clearly *******s, as if nobody would notice, as if nobody else on Earth had shot "their" last roll.
Enjoyed the vid but, I dunno, its like a lot of things you don't miss till they're gone, should never have been allowed to happen really.
We can put a preservation order on a 1970's swimming baths building, a 40 year old concrete eyesore but we can't save Kodachrome, which if it were a building would be of far greater significance than a crumbling pebble dashed box on the outskirts of Barnsley....:shrug:

 

[Cagey75]

User's last roll is not going to be as significant as the very last roll ever produced though, is it?

I wouldn't have known they ceased production of it without this docu' at least. Long time since I shot any film.

 

[jacob12_1993]

I remember the day that it was announced as I was doing some work for my uncles business selling film, chemicals etc. On the day it was discontinued we had a call from a man in Europe who ordered 10,000 rolls in one go. Safe to say I was on the phone to Kodak begging for some more film

It's a real shame because its by far my favourite film to look at. All my photography has been digital so I have really used taken film properly myself but when I look back at all my favourite images taken over the last 50 years, the majority were shot on Kodachrome. It's nice that Kodak allowed Steve to shoot the last roll as his images are definitely some of the most iconic images taken on Kodachrome