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BONECRUNCHER - RE: Film and processing was expensive!

It may have been "time intensive" but it was never expensive.

Anyone's kitchen could cook up a batch of D72... from scratch.... in less time than you can pronounce "methamphetamine sulphate bicarbonate of soda."

Potassium bromide
Sodium carbonate
Hydroquinone
Sodium sulfit

Like Betty Crocker's "Devil's Food Cake" mix - Kodak made the ease of commerical quality film development .... Mix Ready.

In a return to Kodak's earlier days...the entire "box camera" 60th/shutter was sent to the processor and it was returned with negatives, prints, and new film rewound.

American Memory of the Library of Congress USA - (sorry UK you have British PaTHEtic)is collecting - additional positions are in the 2011 congressional "Jobs Bill."

Sincerely,
Gargoyle