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Fading film. Paul Simon may have to rewrite the song. Kodak is taking his Kodachrome away. From ABC News headquarters, this is World News with Charles Gibson. When we come back, the end of the road for the famous film behind countless images. And the film legend is disappearing, literally film, after 74 years, say good bye to Kodachrome. This is World News with Charles Gibson.

 

Perhaps the last half of the 20^th century will be recalled상기하다 more vividly선명하게 because people shot so many pictures of it on Kodachrome. There were other types of film, but Kodachrome sold for 74 years. “Kodachrome. They give us those nice bright colors.” National Geographic’s photographers took millions of shots and happen to be opening an exhibit of Kodachrome creates this week. At ABC, we have thousands of old Kodachrome slides including this from 1976 of a promising new reporter named Charley Gibson.

 

“You can enhance강화하다 reality with Kodachrome.” Donna Svennevik is a professional photographer. “…..was bright red. Anything red would be ultra red. Anything blue would be wild blue.” Remember this famous picture by Steve McCurry of a young Afghan woman? That was Kodachrome. Are you haunted 고뇌하다by this sputtered지글지글 film of the Kennedy assassination? That was on Kodachrome, too.

 

But by 2009, Kodachrome was a fraction of 1% of Kodak’s business. Why should film when a digital camera gives your pictures right away? The TV Show Mad Men about advertising in the 1960s caught on to Kodak’s theme of the time. A picture was not just an image, it was memory. “It takes us to a place where we ache…하고 싶어 못 견디다 to go again.” But we can’t. Progress being what it is, they’ve taken our Kodachrome away. Ned Potter, ABC News, New York.

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