Eastman Kodak Company “Worth How Many Words”

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I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you.

I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you.

I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you.

I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you.

I'm sorry, I'm not sure if I can help you.

The world in which we live, so full of a number of things, passing quickly.

Can we hold time, examine its dimensions? We try to fathom, to extend our senses, experience what we cannot directly see, enlarge our insights.

Through photography and film, we become explorers.

An image, worth how many words, opens the eyes to other worlds, sub -worlds and super -worlds, far away and very close.

Worlds we do not know, though we know they exist.

The camera records in visual poetry, scaled to our senses.

We can see through our grasp.

In the microcosm, fantasy is reality.

How many universes are there in a fingernail, or a drop of water? We are intimate observers of the invisible, sub -world where man is an outsized alien.

The design of the amino acid, the landscape of a fly's tongue, the sleeping sickness carrier, a silicone, pollen, the growth of a crystal.

And then there is the texture of a metropolis.

The camera probes and reveals in a way other communication forms cannot.

What is too small, too large, too far away, too fast, too slow, too hidden, too complex, is subject to scrutiny, time, contracted or expanded.

Motion, speeded, slowed, flowing, frozen, simultaneous, manipulated to catch processes in life.

Surface is penetrated, a deeper, darker labyrinth, exposed to the light of examination.

A new rhythm stirs our world, its visual counterpart symbolized in the technology of laboratories.

Imperceptible patterns of matter and energy are documented.

The camera dissolves the walls of the sedentary classroom and fuses students with discovery.

The camera is The camera is the most powerful of all the cameras.

The camera is the most powerful of all the cameras.

The camera is the most powerful of all the cameras.

The camera is the most powerful of all the cameras.

The camera is the most powerful of all the cameras.

The camera is the most powerful of all the cameras.

The camera is the most powerful of all the cameras.

The camera is the most powerful of all the cameras.

The camera is the most powerful of all the cameras.

The camera is the most powerful of all the cameras.

The camera is the most powerful of all the cameras.

The camera is the most powerful of all the cameras.

Space and time are captive, catch and hold the fleeting moment, lock it into memory and into history.

Events blurred by time live again through the photograph, graphic evidence in the log of human affairs, history made immediate.

Other lands, other cultures, branches of the family of man.

Though we are not there, we see, we feel.

We absorb by experience, total involvement, light, color, form, motion, strike a response, kinetic emotion.

The magic of film and photography brings the remote to the everyday.

So many ways to say, so many things.

Captures the eye, stretches our perception, brings closer meaning and truth, new realities.

We see for ourselves, seeing is believing.

This is the power of the camera and the art which flows from it.

This is learning.

This is the power of the camera and the art which flows from it.

This is the power of the camera and the art which flows from it.

Identifier

F.2010-01-0172

Date Of Production

1968

Abstract

This sponsored film, produced by Goldsholl & Associates for the Eastman Kodak Company, expounds the ways in which film and photography allow us to further explore and discover our world: "The camera probes and reveals in a way other communication forms cannot - what is too small, too large, too far away, too fast, too slow, too hidden, too complex, is subject to scrutiny", narrates Ken Nordine. The film demonstrates this primarily through extreme closeups, delving into microcosmic worlds.

Run Time

0:08:43

Format

16mm

Extent

325 feet

Color

Color

Sound

Optical

Reel/Tape Number

1/1

Has Been Digitized?

Yes

Language Of Materials

English

Element

Print

Genre

Sponsored

Form

Advertisements
Short

Subject

Photography
Motion picture production & direction

Related Collections

SERIES I: Goldsholl Design & Film Associates Films

Related Places

North America ➜ United States

Sponsor/client

Eastman Kodak Company

Main Credits

Goldsholl, Millie (is director)

Goldsholl, Morton (is director)

Goldsholl Design & Film Associates (is production company)

Additional Credits

Freese, Thomas (is contributor)

Grush, Byron (is contributor)

Knapp, Merton (is contributor)

Boyell, Dick (music)

Eastman Kodak Company (is contributor)

Participants And Performers

Nordine, Ken (is narrator)

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