Highlights and Shadows
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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