Kodak November 1926 Product booklet

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EASTMAN KODAK COAPANY
    ROCHESTER,NEW YORK
              The Kodak   City

This year remember
                            your friends witlt
   Kodak Greeting Cards
Titt  designsand colors in the five styles of Kodak
Greeting tards  are charming in themselves. And
prints from your  favorite negatives are easily
slipped into the mounts inside the cards to lend
that intimate, personalnote which is the essence
of the holiday greeting.
                Prices (carrls and enuelopes)
  W i t h m o u n t sf o r z 1 ( x 3 % p r i n t s . . .    . . . . r o c e n t s
  W i t h m o u n t sf o r z / " x + % p r i n t s . . .      . . . . r 5 c e n t s
   E,ASTN,{ANI{ODAK COMPANY
            ROCHESTER, N. Y., The Kodak Citlt
At your dealer's


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z{ lroliday greeting that lasts
                                Jor a Jear-

            The Amateur
               Calendar

                      Mott  New Year's remem-
                     brances deliver their mes-
                    sagejust once and are laid
                       aside.
                     The Amateur Calendar
                             is bound to repeat its greet-
ing every day.  Its handsome gray finish .mbel-
lished with embossedborder and lettering, and its
handy calendar pad, alone make it wortlr keeping.
And the print which you frame on  it  in a jift-y
makes it a real keepsake.
  Send Amateur Calendars for the New Year.
They are greetingsthat last through the year, and
they include a gift that only you can make.

                           Prices
    For z/  x 3% prints (vertical or hori-
          zontal)                             ro cents each
    For 214 x +% prints (vertical or hori-
         z o n t a l )                                  . . . . . . r q  c e n t se a c h

   EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
            ROCHESTER, N. Y., The Kodak City
z{t your dealer's

AN ECHO OF SPRING DAYS
Maile with a No. 3 Kodak, Series III,125  second,stop f.6.3





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                     Made  with  a 2A  Brownie,  bg Mrs.  Simmons

               E X P R E S S I O N
                      BY LAWRENCE  MORTON
TT  THAT do we mean by  "ex-   pression of the artist, that is to say,
                                         of the artist's feeling about some-
                                         thing.  Each object the artist pre-VViil:::'"#*"T""":Hi'Tquarreling about the word, and of   sents to us must have an expres-
course artists are never through   sion.  The artist will  tell you that
wrangling over it.                 a tree must have an expression,for
  Every picture, whether drawn or   both the naturalist and the artist
painted or photographed, is an ex-   agree that a tree has feeiings.

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                   Made with a 2C Brownie, bg Mrs. Cusworth

  However, when we speak of ex-  The outside sign does the talking
pression, we generally mean faci,al   for the thing that otherwise would
expression,and beyond that some-  be concealed.
thing  of the contributing  outlines    The actor, on the speaking stage
of  the  body.    I  think  we may    or  before  the  camera  for  the
agree that  expression means the   movies, has to give much study to
outside sign of an inside feeling.   putting  over these outside signs.





                        Maile with a Premo, bg Mrs.  F. W. Bentzen


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                     Made with a Grafler, bE D. W. Boyer


He has to imagine the feeling be-   feeling happy  it must be hard to
fore he can make the sign.   It  is a   laugh a laugh so perfectly jolly that
difficult job, perhaps just after you   every observer will find it catching,
have had your salary raised to a   and laugh with you.
hundred thousand a year, to imag-    T h e a m a t e u r p h o t o g r a p h e r
ine a misery so deep that real tears   doesn't have professional actors to
will run down your face. On the   deal with.  He  can't say, "look
other hand, if your insides are not   excited," or  "look amused" and

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  Maile  with a Grafler
                                straight as you would be if you said,
                        "Make believe this is funny."  The
                               better way would be to create a sur-
                              prise or to spring something amus-
                                 ing, becausereal feelings have a way
                                of making real signs.
                         The camera is a kind of Sherlock
                        Holmes detective.  It can't be fooled.
                                               It  is a great detector of counterfeits.
                              This doesn't mean that you should
                           never try  the imitation  of feelings.
                                                   I know that you will try  it, for noth-
                              ing  is a greater incentive than the
                              pointing out of difficulties. What  I
                         want to emphasize here is the inter-
                               est of going  after  real feelings-of
Made  with  a No. 1 Kadak         photographing signs that  are true,


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                    Mad,e uith a 3A Ko(lak  STtecial, t/16 second,,f .16
 of getting expressions that  natu-   has a way of vanishing just when
 rally happen.                      your hopes may be highest.  At
  You  will have guessed by  this   the very instant when you released
time the great reason for capturing   your  shutter  the expression you
 natural expressionswhen this can  saw the instant before may have
be done.  Natural expressionsare   changed. Always you  are being
part of the biography the camera  reminded that   it  ean't be put on
may tell.  You who make the pic-   from  the outside but mus[ come
ture may enjoy rnade exptessions  from the inside.
but, in my opinion, you will most    And then there is the element of
enjoy afterward,the records of ex-   chance-call    it  luck   if you  like.
pressions that have actually hap-   Even  the most  dignified painter
pened. You may get a clever bit   takes advantage of chance in the
of acting that  will be a credit to   yay a splash of paint goeson. Why
you as "director."   The  effort  is   shouldn't the photographer enjoy
worth  making and has rewards.   the results of chance in a captured
But my point is that these results   expression? The truth  is that what
often do not wear so well as records  we call an expression-a  frown. a
of the other kind.                   glance of doubt  or amazement. a
  As a matter of fact, great skill is   smile, a laugh-can  be subdivided
required in capturing the natural.    into a dozen or more fractions. In a
With children or with grown-ups a   single seconda motion picture cam-
true expressionis often like a trout.   era takes sixteen pictures-and  not
mighty hard to land.  You get a   two  of the  sixteen are precisely
glimpse of it, and go after it, and it    alike.  The change, however, be-

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                        Made  with  a Graflex,  bE M.  W.  Reettes
                                tween any two may be so slight as
                                          to be imperceptible and in continu-
                                                  ity as the pictures on the striP of
                                           film flash on your screenthere is an
                                           illusion that the eye cannot over-
                                come.
                                 Thus in personal movies You have
                                    sixteen chancesin anygivensecond
                                 as to the very best phase of the
                                       thing you want to make permanent
                                             in a picture-and   it's all practically
                                 as easy as making "stills"  with a
          Maile with a No. 3 Koil'ak         Brownie.


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Made with a 1A Kodak, by Mrs. H. O. Wi,ltces Made with a No. 2 Brownie, bE AIJred,Doltg





  lllad,e ui,th a Grafl.er, bE C. D. Hod,ges         Mad,e  with  a Grafl,ea,  bE A.  L.  TracE

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    THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS CARD EVER SENT
                 -AT  LEAST GRANDMOTHER  THOUGHT  SO
                       BY PAUL  GRIFFIN  LEE
 IFT was really Ted's idea, and this   plied the youngster with much en-
   I   is how it happened.   It was in   thusiasm.
 I   the midst of the pre-Christmas    And that's how grannY's Christ-
rush.  Boxes were being Packed to  mas "card" happened to be sent.
send back home to the home folks.    Dad has a great many negatives,
Mysterious packageswere arriving.    for Ted, you see, was PracticallY                                          t'raisedttThe  windows  all  sPorted hollY          on a camera.
wreaths.  Notes were being  dis-    When he came three years ago,
patched by the "Younger set"  al-   his daddy bought three Presents,
most nightly to Santa Claus.       one for his mother, a silver cuP for
  And Ted, who is onlY three, was   Ted, and a Graflex for himself, and
snuggled up close on daddY's knee,   the negatives of every period of his
 listening to a storY about another    little  life have been recorded and
 Iittle boy-a  boY born in a manger   stored away  in Kodak  Negative
 -whose  birthday we were about to   Albums in the studY.
 celebrate.                       So there we hied, and together
  When  apropos  to  nothing  in   Ted and dad picked out the nega-
 particular he spoke uP and said:      tives that were to go into the mak-
   "Daddy, what can I send granny   ing of granny's Christmas card.
 for Christmas?"                     There was the picture of Ted as a
  Daddy thought for a while, be-   very wee baby; the seriesof transi-
 cause "Granny"   just  idolizes her   tions  in  growth  from month  to
 only grandson, and he wanted to   month; the one of him Pulling the
 send her something that was sure   stuffings out  of his monkey; and
 to please her.                    many, many others from which we
   Finally he said, "WhY not send   could choose.
 her some of your Pictures?"          Then bright and earlY next day
   "Oh fine, daddY, let's do it,"  re-   daddybought a photograPh album,


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          PAGES FROM "THE GREATEST CHRISTMAS  CARD-

and some Kodak Dry  Mounting     "Oh fine, daddy, let's do it,', said
Tissue, and several boxes of Christ-   Ted with much enthusiasm.
mas seals. And that night mother,     "So here you are, dear 'Nana.,
dad and Ted got together and dad  Ted posed for them, daddy  tooic
mounted the prints in the album.   them, mother bound them, and we
  Dad then wrote a preface to the    all hope you'll  like them and wish
book as follows:                  you a happy Christmas."
  "What  can  I send granny  for     Mother removed the cord that
Christmas?" said Ted.               held the album together and in its
  "Why not send her some of your   place put a big bow of red ribbon.
pictures?"                     The word "photographs" on the

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cover of the album was covered  mas "card"  could be kept up  all
with a big holly seal and a snapshot  year round, and as daddy  took
of Ted hanging up his stocking,  more pictures he could send them.
which daddy "shot" especially for    On Christmas day grandmother
the occasion, was the first picture   received many  gifts, but  the one
in the book.                           that pleased her most and the one
  Half  of the pages in the album    of which she was proudest was the
were left blank so that the Christ-   "card" that little Ted had sent her.





                           ALERTNESS
                       Mad,e with a Graflea bE A. A. Wendt


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           THE AERIAL NIGHT PATROL
        A BIRD-NESTING  EXPERIENCE   IN THE WINTER  SEASON
                 BY HOWARD  TAYLOR MIDDLETON
'noR    the verY first time in mY   cord and began operations, dark
 H'career  as a nature Photog-  clouds hanging like curtains above
 I'    rapher, I have made a Portrait   the farm buiidings with a Iight rain
series of  fledglings in  winter; a    falling.  However, the instrument
unique adventure indeed-           being a Graflex with an /.4.5 lens
  The barn owls nested uPon the   and having Kodak Cut Film, SuPer
 flat top of a water tank under the   Speed at hand, this did not Prove a
eaves of a barn on the River Side   handicap as is ably demonstrated
Homestead Estate near Riverton,   by  the  first two  illustrations  ac-
New Jersey, and, as nearlY as I can   companying my  article; both are
determine from the data furnished   rich  in  detail,  the second even
me,  three young  were hatched   showing quite a bit of action. The
about November first.    It was on   exposures for these two  Pictures
December twentieth, however, that   were  L/zs and  V+o Second, re-
my  first photograPhs were taken.   spectively,  with   aperture   f .4.5,
At  that time there were but two   taken in the open.
young birds  in  the  nest, one' a    On January eighth  I motored a
weakling, having died from expo-  second time  to  the home of the
sure soon after birth.                barn owls to find bad news awaiting
    It was very poor camera weather  me.  Although  boards had been
when   I  lowered mY subjects to   placed around the margin  of the
earth in a basket on the end of a   tank to protect the fledglings from


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falling to the hay mow many feet   be both a husky and belligerent
below, one reckless youngster took   youngster.
the plunge, and while replaced in    The eighth of Januarywas another
the nest as soon as found, he died   cloudy day, but  fine results were
the following day.    I attribute his   obtained just the same.   It will be
untimely end to the fact that  his   noticed that  quite a change had
parents  failed  to  discover him   taken place in the development of
during his absence from the nest,  plumage during  the  intervening
and,  consequently, he was  too   nineteen days which elapsed since
nearly  starved when rescued to   our  first meeting.  Picture No. 3
long survive.    It  is easy to believe  shows the favorite fighting attitude
this when it  is known that a barn    of the barn owl, and when  I  tell
owl must consume his own weight   you that those upflung claws are
in food every twenty-four hours to   needle sharp, you can realize the
exist.                          need of gloves as well as patience
  The fact that  the parents now    in  posing him.  Figure 4, "head
had but one young mouth to feed  and shoulder"  portrait, was also
resulted in rapid development on  made upon this date, and at the
the  part  of  their  remaining  off-  same speed and aperture as Figure
spring, and I found him, upon the   3z a/zssecond with  aperture f.4.5.
occasionof our secondinterview. to     The  third  act of our barn owl

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drama was played one week later,   Again   it   will  be seen that my
to the very day, and at this time    "friend"  had matured somewhat
only did the sunlight smile upon   since his last  sittings, and looks
the  efforts  of  the camera man.   very wise in the "close-up."  The





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down to a great                                      balancing when
extent had been                                   perched upon a
r e p l a c e d  b y                                  alimb.SeeNo.S.
feathers, and he                                     No. 6 shows
not only looked                                       hisloveformice,
but acted like a                                 and I have it on
full-grown barn                                good authority   %
owl,  which  he                                           that as many as    X
very soon would                                       nine   little   ro-
be. He drooped                                     dents have been
Iow his monkey-                                    swallowed at a
like  face  and                                    meal.
shook  it  sadly                               A  barn  rat,
to and  fro, as                                     which  he  de-
though answer-                               voured  later,
ing with a bored                               was one of ten
negative every question asked him,   found in the nest at the same time,
a characteristic trait.                 thus proving the inestimable value
  He could not use his wings in    of this bird to the farmer.  Data
sustained flight as yet, but loved    for these two pictures: Number 5,
dearly to spread them as an aid in   Tcsosecondatf .4.5, and Number 6,

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of my unique adventure. No. 7, on   and gray with epaulets of brilliant
floor  just  inside barn  doorway,   orange brown, his waistcoat white
snowstorm  raging  outside,  Vzs  with spots of black, and his badge
secondat f .4.5. No. 8, indide barn,   of office, a metal band, encircles a
ten feet away from open doorway,   trim right ankle.
in shadow, 7Ao second at  f.4.5.    The winter moon rides high o'er
These  final  photographs  exhibit   white-clad fields-comes a whisper
Mr. Owl in the uniform of a bona   of wings, a pounce, a  flurry  of
fide aerial policeman.  His white   snow, a squeak; one more warning
face is framed with a chin-strap of   to rodents: Beware the aerial night
red-cream velvet, his coat is black   patrol!





                                                                   Mad,e  with  a Graflen,
                                                                      by Russell  Hamison,    Jr.

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    EMBOSSEDWIDE-MARGIN ENLARGEMENTS
ZT\HE'    'mentwide  margined  enlarge-  have adopted various names, such
    |        with embossed or plate-   as Etchcraft  or De Luxe  for   it.
  I   sunk line around the picture   Anyone, however, who is equipped
image is growing steadily in popu-   to make large prints can easily turn
larity.  There is no question but   out similar enlargements.
that  the treatment enhances the    When an etching or a steel en-
pictorial  value  of a photograph.   graving  is printed on a sheet of
With the right type of subject and   paper that is larger than the metal
the work carefully done the picture   plate on which the picture  is en-
is often made worthy  of a frame   graved the pressure that the print-
and a place on the walls of one's   ing press applies to the plate makes
home.  Then  too  such  enlarge-  a depressionin the paper.  As the
ments make splendid gifts.          area of this depressionis somewhat
  Many  photo-finishers specialize  larger than  the  picture the lines
in  this  kind  of enlargement and   that  bound   it  serve as a frame


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