Highlights and Shadows

How it feels

This film looks at how Kodak made film and cameras in the 1930s. It visits four different factory departments and uses special effects like double exposures to make the machinery look beautiful.

educationalmethodicalobservationalaesthetichushedvisually inventiveindustrialcelebratory

What happens

Highlights and Shadows is a 1938 industrial film produced by avant-garde filmmaker James Sibley Watson on the manufacture of Kodak film and camera equipment, profiling four divisions of the Eastman Kodak Company: Camera Works, Hawkeye Works, Kodak Park and the Research Department. The extensive use of special effects throughout the film, particularly multiple exposures, emphasize the aesthetic qualities of mass production. The film is extant and a 35mm print is preserved by the George Eastman Museum. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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