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Title: LAST KODACHROME, the

Reference number: 9535

Date: 2010, November

Director: filmed by Chris O’Kane, Stephanie Morrison, Robert McCrae

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 8.34 mins

Description: Footage of Scottish cinemas, including staff at work in projection rooms, shot on Kodachrome 16mm film stock just before Kodachrome processing was discontinued worldwide.

Donor's note: "This film was shot during the month of November 2010 and sent to Dwayne's Photo Lab in Kansas before the last K14 processing plant shut down in January 2011. Four 100ft rolls of Kodachrome were shot on a Beaulieu R16 with a Kowa 8Z 2x anamorphic lens mounted in front of a 50mm prime lens."

Shotlist: GVs in foyer of Apollo Cinema, Saltcoats - staff dressed up to advertise Harry Potter film. Chris O'Kane lacing up Victoria 5 projector in projection room. GVs projector and Cinemeccanica reel unit. Clapperboard. Ext shots Glasgow Film Theatre, snow on ground. GFT chief projectionist Barney McCue marks the shot. Gvs McCue operating Christie digital projector in projection room. Ext shots Odeon at the Quay, Glasgow. Clapperboard. Ext shots Summerlee, Coatbridge, tram in operation. Shots in Summerlee store, O'Kane and projectionist Charles Ainsdale looking at cinema artefacts. Ext shots steam locomotive and tram. Ext shots Lyceum Cinema, Govan, Glasgow. Curtain drawn.