Thanks for what you do. I support a different UKposts content producer a month. I will see you on patreon soon. Still want a BSF PIN!

stay safe and healthy, Also excited for your other projects to

@@QuietJ0Y Thank you! I'm working on those pins!

Will we be getting anohter abbonded episode soon?

Thanks Jake for everything

Did you learn anything this second time around? lol 😂

Isn't it just great when that happens

same

Pretty cool to hear that

So you're a socialist?

Poetic.

Now we all hide the pain on reflex.

I saw research which suggested that people who smiled in early photographs were clinically insane. (Watch A Million Ways to Die in the West.)

Eastman, not like “East Man Kodak.”

It's because smiles aren't natural most of the time. It is a vastly learned response. Not all smiles are fake, there are legit happiness caused smiles. But not of them are just that 100% fake.

Rumors said that It was close to make something with Motorola ...but nothing of real happened.

Kodak didn't even make their own digital cameras. Most were rebranded Chinon products.

Most Kodak camera manufacture was moved to China years ago.

Because kodak never make their own camera. Camera enthusiasts will always point at brands like nikon, Canon, leica, zeiss, and more for better camera.

@@faizalf119 Your totally wrong about that. Kodak manufactured all their still cameras, movie cameras and projectors for about 80 years until competition grew from Japan and China. The Rochester (U.S.A.) manufacturing facility, the Kodak Toronto facility, where I worked for 29 years, and several other facilities around the world manufactured and assembled cameras. The need for competitive global manufacturing did occur around the time that digital photography exploded, so Kodak digital apparatus were manufactured by other camera manufacturers or dedicated Asian Kodak manufacturers. Kodak followed the vision of George Eastman to produce economical photographic equipment to make photography simple, affordable and available to the general public. Kodak never saw themselves in the high-end camera market, but was happy to provide the film products for those cameras you mentioned. People are rarely aware of the scope of products that Kodak and The Eastman Chemical Company produced. Cameras and photographic apparatus contributed less than 5 percent to Kodak's total sales.

@Michael Zootlegger I think he meant that the company will die in relevance.

@Michael Zootlegger ok.

Do you feel smart when you come up with empty phrases like that?

Michael Bootlegger Yeah, Kodak adapted. Those 2015 contracts is what saved their company. What’s the confusion?

Michael Bootlegger Lol ok captain obvious, are you stupid? If they didn’t reach those agreements and pursue other ventures, they would be liquidated. Leveraging Hollywood to continue to use film instead of RED cameras is adapting to change. What part of that do you not understand? Had they not reached agreements in film production, they would be finished. “The agreements make it possible for Kodak to continue to manufacture motion picture film while also pursuing new opportunities to leverage film production technologies in growth applications, such as touchscreens for smartphones and tablet computers. Kodak also went on to state that “this also positions the company to remain the premier supplier of camera negative, intermediate stock for post production, and archival and print film.”

I'll remember that one.

Plot twist. Killed for inheritance.

My gut sank.

That was unexpected and heavy.

I’m at a feeling of disbelief.

this is deep

Those T-shirt’s are pretty fire though

BuschWhacker Reviews facts them shits hard

@@BuschWhackerReviews Almost as fire as your UKposts channel. All of my excitement to see one of my favorite NASCAR UKpostsrs aside, it really is sad what happened to Kodak. They were so iconic, important, and provided some nice NASCAR liveries. We still have a Kodak camera circa 1960s down in our basement somewhere. I don't think it works, but I remember finding it while searching for some lightbulbs.

The Coca-Cola Company not only licenses a lot of their retro imagery but also uses it for their promotional gifts consistently, year after year, just saying... What you say does hold true in many other cases, though.

I buy their paper. Interesting to know.

Kodak turned down the inventor of the photocopier, see my comment above.

As a Canadian, I see the downfall of Kodak starting when Fuji Film started to built parking lot film booths, where you could leave your film and get it back the same day. Kodak made you mail in your film or leave it at a store to come back two weeks later. Fuji film cost a lot less and was just as good.

@@IO-zz2xy: As a mayoral candidate in Welland, Ontario, I used a photocopier to make campaign statements. The federal government removed a defamatory libel law used to arrest me and the Province of Ontario created two new laws based on my political experience. You really can't buy a photocopier any more. I see that technology as being suppressed because it's too easy for the public to use. They are now being built for a cost over $5,000 and you have to have the maintenance man come over every time you use it. Retailers don't stock them.

My Dad was a lead Engineer at Kodak in Rochester NY, he told me that on.a regular basis Fuji technology thieves/spys were encountered walking around with cameras taking pics of the huge multi story fully automated building sized machines for making color photography film . They usually would not get away but im sure a lot of IP was stolen over the years

@@jpslayermayor9293: Here in Ontario, Ontario Hydro was run by a man from the United States. He set up a deal for Ontario Hydro to buy an electricity provider in the States. An American judge stopped the deal, saying Ontario politics could influence the deal in the long term, and fined Ontario Hydro $124,000,000, American. The executive quit and became the new executive officer of The Tennessee Valley Association, the most historic hydro company in America. The new Ontario Hydro head said you won't see this fine in your bills. You might think this is irrelevant, but I got tired of typing about Donald Trumps real estate project in Toronto.

I remember when I was a kid going to walmart and seeing the shelves by the registers full of disposable kodak cameras and film the nostalgia definitely kicks in

HeyItsMeDaisy I haven’t seen those in years, Times sure do change

@@WickedPhase I remember as a grammar school kid how everywhere you went in tourist Southern California, Kodak was king and there was a smaller competitor named Fuji Film that was trying hard. Kodak even had a blimp although it was smaller than Goodyear.

@@WickedPhase Same here, and every gas station had them as well at 3 times the markup. Another company that was not mentioned here is Polaroid, my family used their instant cameras a lot back in the 80's. My Grandfather even had the first commercial model B/W Polaroid instant camera.

So i should expect Walmart and Amazon to be gone in the next 20 years? Sounds great.

Now the only people who care about digital cameras are photographers,film makers, and vlogger not something the normal citizen would use over a smartphone

​@staringcorgi6475 Yep. Not to mention how a lot of new modern phones absolutely dumpster even relatively newer cheaper dedicated cameras. To actually have a camera be better than the average phone, you'll be spending into the thousands.....which automatically pushes out the average consumer.

I guess it’s the same situation as LEMMiNO: if they get signed they will lose their freedom of creativity, plus it will be behind a paywall meaning they may lose fans who watch here on UKposts.

@@imblack011 chill out lmao. You’re not entitled to anything he’s gotta make money too. I’m not in charge anyways so calm down.

Later video bright sun films file for bankruptcy protection

Then someone will end up doing video documentary about him......

Cases of binge-watching would skyrocket

I thought it was brilliant.

I believe it to be morbidly poetic.

He went out rhe way he wanted to. I can respect that.

He has been a benefactor....

Imagine if they had leveraged the patent on the digital camera in the 80s when it became viable. They could have ridden the wave into the early 2000s and a smart CEO could have leveraged it into making cell phone sensors. The very technology that put them under, replacing the likes of Toshiba and Sony who make many of them now. Or an even savvier CEO would have invested in the storage cards for those digital cameras/phones. That would have positioned Kodak to be a potential player in the Flash/nand storage boom of recent computing. Turning SD cards buisness into SSDs.

@SteelRodent Thats the point. THEY INVENTED THE TECHNOLOGY. They COULD have pushed it. They had the patents. They had the research. They could have controlled the digital camera and optics industry, or at least a large market share of it, right up until the cell phone camera killed it. They CHOSE not to

Which is a shame because I'm one of those weird people that really enjoys film photography and then all honesty we don't need another company making the same generic digital camera

@@TwoDollarGararge I'm right there with you. I do photography on the side and there is a big trend im seeing in people go back to film. I even see people manipulating digital pictures to have that old asthetic

@@brandonj.harris yeah humans have that tendency they have a process that is imperfect then they find a better process that's more perfect but then they enjoy the imperfect process after

No, Greedy CEO's with inside trading just fucked it up.

"To my friends, my work is done, why wait?" Jesus christ, didn't expect that emotional dropkick

@@ibm_businessman6033 Yeah. You would've thought that the CEO would've tried to play it smart.

@@eastindies2937 Unwillingness to adopt new technologies and advancements.

funny how you mention the office when jim is this video at 9:02

@@jemoederiseenperzik Andy samberg is next to him

And they'd still be relevant in the camera industry i think it's kind of funny how they were out competed by their own invention. Imagine if kodak released a digital camera in the 70s.

the huge issue with kodak was legacy...they still used to make and develop kodachrome up until the end i think

Yup it sure did, I remember the panic it caused hearing these companies were laying people off and everything

and Bausch and Lomb, Champions, French's mustard, Ragu. All Rochester products that left

Hopefully with its now rebirth, itll bring some zeal back to Rochester and provide employment growth as well!!

Frederick It Looks like Kodak is Back in the News .

@@johndrews206 Ha ha you live here you know how it was . When the English men who purchased French,s took the company apart it left an impact . French,'s Potato Pancake Mix was the Best . I still cannot find a substitute for it . Thank you for your memories .

came here to comment the same thing, lol

I saw it too! hahaha

Or that Bram Stoker's Dracula is that new.. both of those things aren't really that old.

​@@qazmko22 ".. those things aren't really that old..." = your one opinion vs many other opinions, dude. Get that into your head. Whats old to one person is not old to another. How do you define an "antique?"

@@sanfrancisco9661 your one opinion vs. many other opinions, dude. Get that into your head. Whats old to one person is not old to another.

San Francisco sure, something being old is relative. But I just looked it up, it’s a movie from 1993. Kodak was founded over 100 years earlier, simply in relation to Kodak it’s not old at all. Kodak was founded 3 years before the brothers Lumière even invented the cinema. A 30 year old movie doesn’t qualify as old in that regard at all.

Honestly, your attempt at trolling is absolutely pathetic. There's not a single person alive today in 2020 who can say "Dracula" the novel isn't old. I mean is this really what you do with your spare time? Seriously? You can't even be bothered to look for at least a mildly controversial comment to disagree with, in the hopes that some random person on the internet will get upset and start arguing so you can intentionally try to get them to lose their cool online. Really? You're THAT lazy that you can't even put in a tiny bit of effort into your trolling? Honestly, that's the saddest part. This is the only reply you'll get from me. Go use someone else to stroke your sad ego to make you feel better about yourself. Or, crazy idea, actually go out and maybe do something genuinely productive with your time that'll actually make you feel good.

Many other companies established themselves in Rochester because Kodak was there.

And now Rochester is considered In the top tier of impoverished and dangerous cities in the US. I'm glad my parents didn't live to see what happened to our city.

@SteelRodent Plus Blockbuster _did_ try to get into streaming. It was just a.) very early (c. 2000), when Internet access was less common, bandwidth was a lot more limited, and they were still inventing some of the tech needed, and b.) they partnered with Enron to develop that tech, meaning it crashed and burned when Enron did.

I’m not the only one that thought of Blockbuster. Companies that refuse to change with the times tend to hit a brick wall later on. People quickly adapt to the latest in technology as it becomes more and more convenient. Less maintenance, less hassle, time saving.

Just said the same thing then i found your post. Good minds think alike

What Blockbuster should've done was purchase Netflix to then squash them like a bug and carry on with their physical media rentals.

What's up man, I'm a chili native. My grandad moved up here from Pennsylvania to work at Kodak. He worked there for probably 30 years

My mom worked for Fuji Film for 32 years so she was there when Kodak went under. There was some surprise but mostly empathy at Fuji when Kodak declared bankruptcy. No one cheered, no one was glad because they all knew if it could happen to Kodak, it could happen to them.

Oh hey! Also a Rochester native here!

Garbage plates ftw

Heyyyyyy what’s up guys! I am also from Rochester (specifically victor) but I’m guessing y’all were also just as excited as I was when this vid poped up in my feed😂

I know a former Kodak employee that still works out of a Kodak Rochester factory. His company makes spaghetti sauce.

@David Wang Obsolescence of products and technologies have been happening since the beginning of civilizations. AI is in our near future and is likely to render more technologies and products obsolete that we have ever seen in history.

I was actually thinking of that song when the Kodachrome label came on! lol

I remember :-)

Better Days.

Yes, Their lifelong journey of theft disguised as charity is finally over. Thanks to the Prime Minister's cronyism (finance minister's involvement), and outright corruption. All at the expense of the taxpayer who unknowingly/unwillingly funds this abuse of power. Absolutely disgusting.

HAHAHA!!!! Just money spinning for the KBR brothers. No different than Trump.

but in reality that saying "You should do an episode for WE charity" is not a option anymore. M&H Racing

Pretty much correct, aside of filetypes...

@@DeerKoden Nope filetype makes sense if Kodak was making Photoshop software, so insted of ".psd" it would be ".kdk".

@@AshrakAhmed that's more like it. Although Photoshop was first released back in 1990, so Kodak should have started switching to digital way earlier than it actually did (at least a decade earlier).

Kodak phones, Kodak computers... Instead of those, it's now kodak printer.

And don't forget Kodak Gallery after they acquired Ofoto. 3-million subscribers at one point. This was prior to Instagram, and when Instagram came along a primary feature everyone liked was the ability to mimic the look of film. The other of course being the social aspect. Kodak could have done both of those, but Kodak was a lot more close-minded about it, wanting to perfect the color, not make it look vintage, and to them the social aspect was sharing digital photo albums with family. They were not thinking big enough, and were playing it safe.

True I remember that

Walkin' through the city, lookin' oh so pretty...I've just got to find my way.

George Eastman didn't invent the first camera or the first film, but he did move the marvel of photography from the hands of the professional to average Joe public. George once stated that he envisioned a time in the future when every person would carry a camera, just as they carry a fountain pen now. His vision came true, but he didn't see the camera being integrated into every cell phone.

50 off Kodak ads, this is crap, he talks bullshit, and then ad, or is it content????? MAD COMMUNITY IT IS!!!!! Kodak chrome killed them, 1990 was digital! Fuji was 1970!

Great, more proof that the original "Journey into Imagination" was the attraction that creeped me out as a baby when my parents pushed me in with them.

Oh yeah, from that Internet Historian video

ohnoitschris oh my god that was the first thing that came to mind too

Kodak was a sponsor, there are kodak cameras in the video

also the fact that the next line is a pun "took my life from negative to positive"

meaturama a rapper😭😭😭

America sent them overseas and sat idle while the digital revolution consolidated them. Voters didn't demand government do they're supposed to and prevent monopoly.

He also had a severe spinal affliction which limited his ability to move and caused him immense pain.

MarlonBitoy And his decreasing mental stability too.

He was drunk.

Scotch , He was Sick and in Pain . I am not Happy about it but I was not in his Shoes . The Luger was . 30 Cal He is Buried off Lake ave Right next to the Park .

As to their collapse, I think it's too simplistic to say they were delusional or blind. When it comes to photography, they were the 800lb gorilla, and while the market was changing, they still felt like anything they did would be a massive force in changing it. It was quite literally killing the goose that laid the golden egg, and they weren't prepared for that kind of risk. They were looking at their peers like IBM and Xerox and their struggles, and couldn't see how to handle big transitions better. They unfortunately delayed big decisions until they were taken out of their hands.

did you go to UR or RIT?

I lived at Weston Rd and Eglinton Ave and passed that building twice a day for work. I’m so glad they kept and moved the building instead of demolishing it.

I worked there as a high tech exec from 1998 to 2000. Since software was not a core business we were in a corner of building #5 where the movie film guys were. It was fascinating to see Hollywood directors coming in to see demos of new film product. They sold $100m worth of movie film per year in Toronto. The manufacturing plants were also interesting. Imagine a 96 acre parcel of land in the middle of Toronto still dedicated to photo film/paper manufacturing in 2000. But before condos could go up they had to clean up the hazardous waste areas. In the 1900s they just dumped the chemicals into Black Creek.

can i play you my accordion?

He already did. Edit: nvm

Supreme Leader!

who’d you execute this time for watching a bollywood movie?

@@wyatt-mv6pd Youre thinking of the floating McDonalds barge.

I need to get up there see friends and get a plate from Nick Tahous. Great city.

yo

Chris Longbeard never been 😆

One of their current factories is behind where I used to live here in Rochester, so this is familiar territory for me. Not to mention that my senior paper in college was Kodak's effects on Rochester.

Same

My dad was a VP at Kodak, 30 years with the company, imagine how we feel. My dad got the last executive comp package when he quit shortly before the bankruptcy.

Yeah, that move was a saving grace for Kodak!

Amen Bro.

Me too...

Kodak took another big hit recently, their stock went down hellaaa

Could have bought any stock this year and made massive profit

nicholas dean not 3000%

Why did the stock go up 700%?

Yup because of us. And it shouldn't be a trend either

I remember back in the 1970's, those parking lots were filled.

Must be great for drifting

Yeah I plowed snow at kodak in those parking lots. Very dead. Just like a ghost town

I only really care about the tower since it’s next to the mainline, so whenever I look at the track I usually look at the building too

Yoo y'all live in Rochester too? :D neat

They came back?

@@nobleactual7616 they still sell for film photography and it's very expensive

@@brandonj.harris yeep.

The film was fine up to 2010 when it began to get scarce. It was a sad day when Kodak paper wasn't used for processing after that.

I think Kodak's ISO400 films were too grainy compared to Fuji around that time. I remember the place I use to get my films processed, told me to use Fuji or Agfa around that time.

@@AshrakAhmed lol and now Kodak is the favorite color film again

I always preferred the colour reproduction of Fuji over Kodak. Started on Kodak. Moved to Fuji and stayed there until moving to digital. Work brought me to Rochester on and off over a 20 year period. It was sad to see the giant that was Kodak die a slow death.

so true. i think sadly kodak got the point of been run by the investors. lets milk the cow dry f*ck everyone else

A very successful company and smart leaders evaluated by Cryssa Rosa in 20/20 hindsight. LOL. What is CR successful in ? Anything? Or just opinions?

No, that would not have happened. At best, they could have been a few years ahead of the market. Because even if they developed a great camera, it wouldn't have had the batteries, storage media and computers capable of supporting and utilizing the data. How would you have viewed or shared the pictures?

@@kcgunesq - AA batteries ran most cameras until the late 2000s/early 2010s (P&S or many DSLR). Photoshop initial release was 1990, Storage media could have been created by Kodka instead of Sandisk/Intel/Toshiba - CompactFlash/Miniature Card/SmartMedia. To view and share maybe invest in a dominant Operating System at the time or a simple solution, purchase Commodore Computer which would have gained their multimedia Amiga computer... But Kodak poured billions into Advanced Photo System that launched in 1996

@@detroitcoffeeartdetroit6502 Actually, my recollection of cameras through the mid-aughts was that while AA's were common, they were far from universal. I know we owned a couple of Panasonic and Sony P&S's that used proprietary batteries. My older manual cameras used button cells. My D300 could use AA's with an expensive adapter, but shipped with a proprietary battery. But the main point is that without the processors and memory that didn't exist, it would have remained a niche even if they somehow developed sensors that were several generations better than what we had in 2000 (e.g., the sensor in the D300), as very few people would have been willing to wait minutes for each photo to process or display.

Yes so would i. Good call

Not cool!

I have an old ass underwater camera sitting in my room lmao

Beuler lol same but it isn’t a Kodak one

Funny I saw this brand yesterday in a store and wondered because I never have heard of it lol

I think I have a Kodak digital printer from like 2004-2005

Keep in mind, Amazon just started out selling books. You either innovate or you die!

Agree.

It will be an Abandoned vid, not a Bankrupt vid

I had a lab partner in 1983 who was an organist for Chuck E Cheese when it started.... way , way back. He was hired as probably one of their first employees in San Jose.

Yep, I even still have my Polaroid camera from the late 90s. Wonder if it's worth anything, barely used it..🤔

@Drupie tuleh no you would go to a cvs or walgreens and have them print the film from the camera out into pictures for you.

50% off Kodak? Mad community! ads!

Matthew Miller along with Kodak’s leadership itself.

I've been using digital cameras from 2012-2017 before I got my first iPhone and started to use it as a camera because it was more convenient than having to wait for my camera to open when I wanted to take a photo.

Yea. Now we're famous for our murder rate, sadly.

Thank you so much!

Was literally just about to post this, too!

Big Tuna!

The guy that plays David Wallace is at 14:19 as well.

Shoot me an email, I’d love to! Contact@brightsunfilms.ca

WhereTab _ Great idea!! Interviews w/ exworkers to now their experiencies 🤩

Oh this sounds interesting!