I’m from Rochester and it’s difficult for me to see a company that has sunk so low. As kids almost everyone knew someone who’s parent(s) worked at Kodak.

I still buy Kodak film to his day and enjoy motion pictures filmed on Kodak film. I hope it stays.

How could you be one of the most profitable photography film companies in the world, invent and patent digital photography and still go bankrupt?

Depressing, mis-management on a colossal scale, their engineers were ahead of the competition the board seems to been stuck in the past.

In the spring of 1978, I was a senior student at Arizona State University with a double major Accountancy and Finance. In a class concentrating on strategic business planning, I wrote a 150 page financial and marketing analysis of Kodak. I made a number of proposals aimed at diversification from a joint marketing alliance with a high end camera manufacturing company, to bringing aboard the best people they might attract in the photocopy field to become a strong #2 behind Xerox, and many other

I grew up in the shadow of Kodak Park in Rochester NY. In the 1960s, it was said that one of every five people in Rochester worked at Kodak Park. Sad to see it decline so much, technology moves on.

I remember that Dave Stoklosa...one of the bottom feeders of society who would sell his mother for a buck. Listen to him laugh when he's so happy now he's involved with the tomato sauce and says, "people gotta eat", then smiles...makes me ill. Karma's a waiting for you Dave.

I live in Rochester, I have spoke to some clients who were engineers with Kodak. The board would say things like people don't want cameras in their phones they want phones in their cameras! Another one I heard was they were way ahead with digital cameras and created one with a USB out port and the board revised the design to remove the port, they wanted people to send their cameras in still to get developed. Their short sightedness cost them everything. Kodak at the end was really a chemical company that refused to innovate. Since then they've had some crazy business with cryptocurrency that went nowhere with a bunch of disbarred canadian securities fraudsters and the failed vaccine development program spear headed by Pete Navarro that was crushed by Kodak insider trading accusations. Sad stuff.

I worked in Kodacolor processing before WW2.After the war, they treated me like crap,so i quit. Later, I worked for them in the naval Ordnance division, and quit due to poor pay. Went to Delco Appliance, which merged with Delco Products in Dayton, and lived happily ever after,now in my 39th. year of retirement!!!

Kodak played dirty with Polaroid during 70's and 80's and lost the legal battle for instant photography. We shouldn't forget that. It is said that Kodak ignored the digital photography. They truth is that Kodak during 90's invested heavily in digital photography when Canon, Nikon, Minolta, Pentax and others couldn't produce their own professional digital cameras. From 1991 until 2000 in collaboration with Canon, Nikon, Hasselblad and others, Kodak produced numerous professional digital cameras. Just check Wikipedia for the article: Kodak DCS. Kodak always since its start was making products for professionals but the company was focused mainly in amateur photography. Kodak wasn't very interested in constructing medium format film reflex cameras or film SLR cameras. Kodak was immensely profitable with the market of amateur photography. That was a bless and curse. After 2000 the film technology started to die and after 2005 smartphones started to make digital compact cameras obsolete. Only premium compact cameras, SLR and mirrorless cameras are profitable today. However there is resurgence of film photography similar to the vinyl disks. Kodak films for photographic cameras are still in production and can survive for many decades.

Its so sad to see like these big companies going down but this is how life works

Feel pretty sad as I grew up with Kodak films ... Good luck to you all.

Part 2- many other ideas based on sharing parents, buying smart small companies in the field as Apple has done,so well the last 5-10 years, working on Customer controlled kiosk photo printing technology etc. they were an all-eggs-in-the-same-basket company remaining that way until the latest. I was not a seer, nor a genius but it wasn't hard to see huge problems coming to kill off that core cash cow. I wish they had made similar self accessments

hello nytimes, thank you for this short of eastman kodak film. when film was still making it, my choice is usually fuji 100 on your royal paper. learned that fuji negatives carried the green of outdoor pics a little beter. turned over to b/w film for fun streets and have not done the green as much. elle for no nikon

"Food and Bev won't be replaced by digital" Obviously he never heard of Soylent Green.

This is what happens when you refuse to innovate and are stuck in the past. That's where Blackberry is now. Microsoft finally realized this, too, and are now trying to innovate as well.

in my country we called camera film Kodak,the sad things is those greedy executive can avoid all of this if they invest in digital camera

Thats me at 3:45 and 4:13

we have to push the company forward for eastmen vision...

Lack of vision from the Top down.... Did not diversify... 😪

Oh! Where can I find this buildings map? @2:32

I like the way the future is looking. Cars that run on water, drive themselves. All the while the drive talks on the phone. Cameras on cars to record accidents are smart and just so you all know, Kodak was dead in 1979. They just weren't broke. Now they are both. I have a garden, can my own tomatoes and make my own sauce. I was offered a job at this place in 1983 and said no immediately. Kodak made this city. Ran this city. Then killed this city.

Hate to see all those sturdy brick factory buildings go, because you know they'll never build structures like that again. And it will lose that density and efficient use of space when new buildings are built. Ones that aren't multistory, and that have lots of concrete and green space around

Great history of Kodak company!

Film is on the rise.. Why? Because people are getting sick of losing data. And they just like the look! Nothing beats it

German filmmaker Agfa and Italian Ferrania are pretty much out of the business too, and Konica, Japan's oldest film company, merged with Minolta and quit the film business. Now what's really funny is this: Fuji Photo Film, which became Kodak's main competition in the professional market, is still profitable, still making cameras from digital P&S to a medium format digital camera and lens line, and still making film! Go into any chain drug store and you will find disposable Fuji cameras, but there isn't a Kodak to be seen.

Broke my heart when I heard Kodak park went down.

Kodak invested heavily into Sandisk in the 1980s the company that basically made modern day flash memory. Sandisk is now worth more then 13 billion dollars and Kodak is dying a slow sad death, how did this happen how can you basiclly make a company and get nothing out of it. American politicians like to blame over seas jobs, but is the labor in Japan and Korea that much cheaper? I blame lack of innovation and resting on your laurels.

Returns or charisma for jewelry and not moments. Still the picture holds the transition of seasons at moderate price. At least we all know where a mission statement comes from.b

Food and bev won't be replaced by digital tech... ...until we can 3D print food in our homes.

"People got to eat. It won't be replaced by digital technology". I came from a future where neural interface device is common like smart phones today. We use virtual reality to pretend that we are eating something delicious when the reality is: we are intravenously fed with a nutrient rich liquid called Soylent Green. Why? Because it is cheaper than buying food at Mcdonalds. BTW Mcdonalds is called Màidāngláo now because Tencent Holdings bought the company in the year 2062.

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Digital cameras just don't have the quality film does.

I think Steve Jobs predicted how companies decline in another interview

Rochester isn’t completely all this doom and gloom. I wouldn’t say we are happy, or back to the way we are, but it’s not always dead trees and empty parking lots. There is a culture. But, it’s only gotten good for people with certain tastes. Maybe one day, it will be back.

They were warned..

Then and now, Kodak is still greedy. Films are increasingly popular with young people, which means that production costs can be reduced but... January 2020, Kodak raised the price of their 35mm film. That was compounded by the greed of resellers in my country. 20$ for a roll of Ektachrome? $15 for Portra? No, thanks. Shooting film is just for the rich, apparently.

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Maybe they could start making semiconductor products so north America would depend less on asian manufacturing.

This is what you call putting lipstick on a pig.

Whenever I watch a video about the decline of Kodak, including this one, I'm struck by the reality that so few women are interviewed or even pictured.

3rd comment 98th view!! Under 100!!!!!!

I am glad i always used Ilford, this company is dead. Come to Ilford guys :)