In 94 pages the first edition gives a high level view of silver halide film technology. It is suitable for those with a general interest in photography. It is easily understood by high school students. It explains how film is made in a state-of-the art factory. The second edition gives far more information in its 470-pages. Many first edition buyers have returned to buy the second edition.
PET / ESTAR
92. PET Process
93. PET pellets.98
94. Estar Base Machine
95. PET Control Room
96. Estar Base Machine
97. Utilities for B317
98. Plasticizing extruder
99. Peeling base off wheel
100. Estar off the wheel
101. Applying PET dope
102. Estar Base drafting
103. Estar Base web clips
104. Estar Base Tentering
105. Estar Base post-forming
106. Particle Transfer Roller
107. Knurling on Estar Base
108. Estar Base knurling
109. Scanning Estar Base
110. Estar Base Windup
111. Visual inspection
112. Estar Base Quality
113. CTA/PET properties
114. Glass and flexible bases
115. Light piping
116. Color Print Film 2383
117. Color couplers
118. Syn Chem logo
119. Syn Chem building
120. OASIS Team
Emulsion Making
Gelatin
121. Gel Manufacturing
122. Gel physical forms
123. Flake gelatin
Silver Halide
124. Silver ore sample
125. Silver filament
126. Silver ingots
127. 1,000 Oz silver ingot
128. Bullion Reactor
129. Silver nitrate crystals
130. Silver nitrate pellets
131. Silver nitrate
132. Silver Nitrate Tote
133. Dry salt hoppers
134. Potassium bromide
135. High Volume Make
136. HVMD Dispensing
137. Coriolis Flowmeter
Dispersions
138. Direct Dispersion
139. Direct Dispersion Mix
140. Dairy homogenizer
141. Direct Dispersion Mixer
142. Evaporated Dispersion
143. Solvents
144. Nitrogen kettles
145. Oil-phase Kettle
146. Finished dispersion
147. Chunked dispersion
Emulsions
148. Emulsion kettles
149. Vessel 1908
150. 1915 Emulsion kettles
151. Plate formula 1909
152. 1909 formula.
153. Equipment 1909
154. Emulsion cutting knife
155. Position 604
156 Precipitation Flutes
157. Crystal shapes
158. P-231 Making Layout
159. PEPA Mixer
160. Two PEPAs
161. Making position
162. Making vessel
163. Making vessel
164. Making Jars
165. Jewel Sticks
166. Addenda Jars
167. Ultra-filtration columns.
168. Finishing Kettle
169. Finishing Kettle
170. Finishing kegs
171. Small Quantity Addenda
172. Finishing Chill
173. Lemur-Prep Area
174. Lemur Addition Area
175. Lemur Dump Table
176. Lemur Chill Machine
177. FAM and Batch Melt
178. Container label
179. Prepared materials
180. Bar code check
181. Robotic mixing
182. Robotic preparation
183. Robot for melts
184. Belt chiller
185. Material handling
186. Rolling Ball Test
Film Finishing
305. MP Film Workflow
306. MP Film Slitter
307. 38 35mm wide slits
308. MP Slitter Knives
309. Slitting 35mm MP Film
310. Conventional Perforator
311. Conventional punch
312. Perforator Pawls
313. T-perforator
314. T-perforator Station
315. T-perforator's "heart"
316. T-perforator punch
317. T-perforator monitor
318. 750 billion perforations
319. MP Film, 400 feet
320. MP Film can label
321. Pedigree of a roll
322. Pallets of print film
323. MP print film label
324. 16mm slitter-winder
325. 16mm perforator
326. 16mm perf Punch
327. Super 8 Cartridges
328. Super 8 Workflow
329. Super 8 spooling
330. Super 8 Assembly Unit
331. Quality Department
332. Magnified images
333.Inspection station
334. Film manufacturing
335. Manufacturing cartoon
Quality
336. Kodak Quality Slogan
337. Plastic chop boxes
338. D Log E curve
339. Sensitometer
340.Sensitometric strips
341. Plotting densitometer
342. 50K Lux Chamber
343. Temp and RH chamber
344. Physical appraisal
345. Layer inspection
346. Wet Abrasion Test
347. Mushiness Test
348. Electrical Test
349. Curl Test
350. Flesh tones and color
351. Manufacturing yield
Worldwide Manufacturing
352. Australia, advertisement
353. Film coating sites
354. Film finishing sites
355. Kodak Park 1894
356. Kodak Park 1904
357. KP kite photograph
358. Kodak Park 1954
359. Building 38 Map
360. Kodak Park 1997
361. Kodak Park East (KPE)
362. Views of EBP
363. Steam Pipes
364. Seam co-generation
365. Electrical generation
366. Chilled water
367. "Teapot" Engine 1919
368. Switching engine , 2007
369. Coal was majority of railroad traffic
370. Process-water source
371. Drinking water
372. Kodak sign
373.Waste-water treatment
374. Genesee River
375. High-purity water
376. Colorado Division
378. Harrow, England
379. Annesley, England
380. Kodak-Pathé, France
381. Kodak Haicang Xiamen
382. Coburg, Australia
383. Goa, India
384. Guma, Japan
Film Products
385. Film code numbering
386. Film-codes
387. Kodacolor Film 1943
388. Kodacolor Film 1946
389. 1 Billion Rolls!
390. NC Film advertisement
391. Kodoid Plate Ad
392. Early Kodachrome Film
393. Kodachrome Film 1936
394. Kodachrome Film layers
395. Kodachrome 1974
396. Process K-14
397. Ektachrome Film 2002
398. Spectroscopic Materials
399. Spectroscopic Films
Photoreconnaissance
400. Keyhole Satellites
Kodak Calendar
401. Cotsworthian Calendar
Mr. Eastman
402. Mr. Eastman's Grave
Making Kodak Film, 2nd Edition Errata
February 2, 2025
Regrettably, I am aware of some errors in the book. Most were found by experts who dedicated their professional lives to specialized aspects of the providing film. Their careful examination found no factual errors. Considering all the detail in the book's content I am gratified that there are so few errors. It is a credit to those who provided input. The errors include typographic errors, computerized spell-check errors, and in my misreading handwriting in an old document. All the errors are my fault.
The corrections have bold emphasis.
Page 62, column 1, line 19 replace "comic" with cosmic
Page 77: Column 2 Paragraph 2 replace cellulose with Celluloid
Page 110, column 1, line 33 replace "satiability" with stability
Page 139: Fig 152 replace all "grams" with "grains". 1 Gram =15.4 grains.
Page 273, column 2, line 5 add "In the 1920s, non-Autographic backing paper was 0.0045-inches thick."
Page 368 paragraph 3 line 2 replace "scale-scale" with small-scale
Topics Covered in "Making KODAK Film" Second Edition
One way to get a comprehensive view of the book's content is to examine the list of figures. In this book nearly every topic covered includes a photograph or drawing to make it easier to understand.
Comparing the First and Second Editions
In addition to all the information in the first edition the second edition adds:
1. History of film base manufacturing including American Film (1888), cellulose nitrate, cellulose acetate, Estar Base, and others.
2.Expanded discussion of historic and modern emulsion making processes and equipment.
3. The history of coating technology and expanded discussion of curtain coating including photographs of an operating Kodak curtain coater and the thread-up path of Kodak's Building 38 Film Coating Machine that is in Rochester New York.
4. Expanded description and photographs of finished film configurations and the equipment used to make the products. Of special interest is motion picture film finishing using high-speed T-perforators.
5.Expanded descriptions of photographic film image forming mechanism for black-and-white films, color negative films, and Ektachrome and Kodachrome Color Reversal Films.
6. Technical descriptions and history of Kodak Films that are used for consumer, professional, motion picture, x-ray, micrographic, graphic, aerial, and scientific applications.
7. Description of past and current Kodak Worldwide Film Manufacturing Plants, interaction among the plants, and technology transfers.
8. First-hand description of working in Kodak's film business in the 1980's.
9. Information based on private communications with over 100 photographic experts.
10. Addition of 225 photographs and diagrams.
11. Identification of sources of information, over 600 footnotes with the references.
12. A table of figures and an index to facilitate finding information in the book.
The second edition is 470 8.5x11 pages. It is bound with a gloss-film laminated hard cover. It was printed by a HP Indigo Digital Press in the USA.
