Tour of the Kodak Factory | American Road Trip Part One 

Never heard myself talk so much! Thanks for visiting and glad you had a great time! I'd love a high res of that shot of the archway with the tire tracks. That's a great shot. Looking forward to the rest of the series!

They forgot to mention Kodak had it's own eye doctor, shoe store, bank and a bazillion other things for its employees. Remember the suggestion system where you were paid up to $50,000 for a suggestion? You could suggest almost anything and you'd likely get paid $25 to $50. How about the Kodak bonus? Back in the 70's and 80's it would total $5,000-$6,000 which was a lot of money back then. Employees would go out and buy brand new cars with their bonus. Workplace issues would get resolved behind closed doors. You had to get along or you wouldn't be working there much longer. I worked there almost 30 years and it was a dream job. Set me and my family up for life. I still miss it.

the location and weather suits your style of photography and video and music..... very enjoyable mate.

It's like you group of homies won a golden ticket to the chocolate factory! What an incredible experience. Thanks for sharing this vid with the community!

Welcome to Rochester NY, where the sky is always 18% gray.

I didn’t realise how much I needed this video but I absolutely did.

Thanks for sharing. I retired from Kodak in 2008 after 33 years. Believe it or not, it was even a more incredible place and MUCH larger back in the day. For me it was like seeing old friends.

I worked at Kodak Canada for 18 years until it sadly closed in 2005.I setup,maintained and overhauled the motion picture film perforators also the 35/70 mm film slitter.I also serviced the B.I.S.(business imaging) spoolers and slitters including the packaging equipment>What a great place to work they treated us all like family

That was super super interesting. Seeing that film roll off the assembly line made my back hairs standing up. It’s also quite tragic how big the place is and the fortunes of Kodak since their heyday. I could have watched another hour of this.

Total Kodak move, "We also have digital and stuff too..."

More from me ::: They left out that Kodak had their own train line that ran the length of the park , their own bus system , taxis , and some personal vehicles and moving all day . Crowded much ! Thanks for the vid. Brings back memories.

nice one! :)

Its nice to know they are pumping out so much film currently, the idea that film is dying ie (fujifilm) is a bit scary but this has inspired me to keep supporting Kodak and using film! Was great to have a virtual tour and insight into the history of the place.

I worked at Kodak Park 40 years and never saw the film manufacturing side - ever! I worked B6, B35 (summers while in college) and in 1980, moved to 65/69 complex. Ended up in Imaging Science Division doing Optical metrology work....an amazingly fun field to work! By the way the pool didn't go to waist. It used to hang and put together the huge Kodak Colorama pictures displayed in Times Square I believe. I was close friends with the guy who ran "7-Machine" Paul Spindler.....great days! Kodak, for me, was an amazing place to work. Great people, decent pay, a LOT of science and R&D. What a blessing!

I actually used to live right near here. Every time I drove by this factory, I'd just stare at it. Factories are just beautiful to me... Lol. I have since moved away, but I do want to see it again. Thank you guys for making this video so that I can!

"this building is for employee enjoyment" "there are no windows..."

In nineteen ninety-four I was working for Eastman Kodak company as a systems analyst. I was selected as a United Way success story in Rochester and I had to give a ten minute speech on that stage in building 28 at the Eastman Kodak/United Way 1994 campaign kickoff.

Got 2 rolls of Ektar 100 films in my moisture-proof box, absolutely love its great color and detailed grain.

Rochester native here - I see this is part 1 so maybe you did but hopefully you went to the George Eastman Museum! They do tours and often do demonstrations on the different type of photo processing and printing.

did you get any free film ?

Epic! I so want Kodak (film) to succeed

"I didn't realize how giant this place was..?" I remember when Kodak gave park tours to grade school students. Kodak Park was its own small town. Had a water tower, railway station, power plant, etc. Whatever you needed was on the grounds or just around the corner. How I miss those days.

my dad retired from kodak. the great yellow father was so much of my childhood from the spring show and cartoons at the theater to those weird kodak vitamins that we dared each other to chew. there is definitely more than meets the eye in those mysterious buildings.

I just signed up to be a member of the Kodak Camera Club!! Woot woot! 👊🏽

Grew up a couple miles from this complex. What you saw is a shadow of its former self. In its heyday it was over 500 buildings and 50,000 employees. As of this video the complex is approximately 150+/- buildings and about 5,000 employees. Now it is Eastman Business Park and leases space to other business - that space made attractive by their infrastructure which comprises a self-contained "city" with its own power generation, sewer plant, railroad system, etc... As a kid I remember marveling at the truly sheer scope of this complex before many of its buildings were demolished. I was often curious as to what it was like on the inside. Thanks for giving me a glimpse.

So many memories! I was actually born & raised in the Rochester area, and yes, I worked at Kodak for a couple of years. I remember seeing that pool myself, and according to my supervisor at the time it WAS, in fact, a Kodak engineer who forgot about the weight of the water, not the builder, and that's why the OFFICIAL line is "no one knows why...." the pool was never used. Also, I drove a forklift at their Lee road warehouse, which contained the LAST existing palette of Kodak Disk film! Even though every disk camera had long since been tossed in the trash, it just sat there, taking up space, because the stockholders couldn't understand that it was effectively worthless - all they saw was the many thousands of dollars that went into producing that batch of film, so they wouldn't allow us to scrap it! Finally, one section of the building was highly secure, because it contained specialized film, which was "allegedly" (wink, wink!) used for a certain surveillance aircraft, and thus the entire building was classified as a "Federal Reserve". Meanwhile, a certain young fellow who worked in another wing of the building decided that he needed a case of CD-R disks much more than Kodak did so he, shall we say, "liberated" it from the premises. Of course, he was caught, but because the building was a Federal Reserve, he was charged with a felony, rather than the simple misdemeanor that such an infraction would have been! Gotta love AMERICAN justice!

3:26 that snow ball😂😂

Hahaha rolling up the roll of Fuji at Kodak :DD

Great video! Seeing all that Ektar coming down the conveyer belt nearly stopped my heart. Also loved hearing about the Kodak employees film club. So cool.

The passion that guy spoke with is wonderful to see

ty. I grew up in Rochester around Kodak Park. My dad worked there and would try to explain how Kodak was, but I could not imagine what it was like. I am glad you were able to show pics of it. ty again.

Glad to see you had a nice summer day in Rochester

Best episode of "How It's Made" ever!!!

You guys are Great, keep making them, keep on shooting!!!!

I was just in Rochester, didn't even know that's where they were headquartered. Really cool video!!

This is truly amazing, thank you for taking us into the Kodak factory.

That part where you enter the pool room and the music stops, and then when you show the picture and everything goes silent was awesome. Felt like I was just sucked into the room with all of you at the flick of a switch.

its a really good feelling seeing all that film being produced

Kodak is such a big part of Americas history. My father worked in a Korean TV studio at the time in the early 70's when he was selected by Kodak to come to Rochester. He brought his bothers and sisters with them. With out that opportunity Kodak gave us I wouldn't know where I or the dozens of relatives would be right now. I remember Christmas parties hosted by Kodak and they have always been great memories. Let's hope they have better days. I certainly hope so.

This is my absolutely favourite video you have ever made! What an EPIC place!

Very interesting video. I toured Kodak in 1970 - lots has changed since then. Thank you for sharing this.

I almost cried. Thank you for this video !

Very cool! The Tour Guide seemed like a cool guy, too! Very into it.

Insane production

I love all the CRTs still in use.

fuck yeah, Rochester! the weather hasn't gotten any warmer in the last couple weeks.

Thank you, Kodak!

Awesome video, loved seeing the factories

rewatched in 2021, still a vibe

Kodak forever in our memory ！ 《Kodak柯達永遠懷念您》

Used to go to Rochester to a water pump manufacturer I used to represent. It was like going back in time. 😂 Def a industrial town.

I spent a week there in 1968 learning the maintenance procedure on 5S printers, along with film and paper processing

Super cool ! That facilty is insane. I'd have taken a million photographs in there. I liked seeing how our style, our choice of subject differ : for exemple the pipes running around the facility, your approach to it was miles away from what i would have done. My mind was blown and i liked it.

That place is huge. Cool on the road vlog

All your photo shots coverage ALWAYS amazed me ... thank you so very much ... cheers. 💞👍

I grew up here and took photography on and I have since moved away but still feel so lucky that all this photo history was in my backyard

It's crazy seeing them in my city i live by kodak👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

That was a great education. Loved learning all about the Kodak factory. I'm sure it was a brilliant experience!

Great to see the place as I'd prefer to remember it back in it's heyday....well done!

I enjoyed every single part of this video, so much that I didn’t skip any parts! anyway, keep up the awesome work george and I’ll forever be a fan of you’re work! x

Interesting - glad you did it.

That was fantastic amd really interesting. I did not realise the factory was so big.

My father and many members of my family worked at Kodak Park. It was a way of life and had everything. My dad worked in 28 and 8 room where the film was actually coated. Most of the time worked massive machines in the pitch black. This brought many memories but sad how much a shell it is of its former self.

HOW ITS MADE: Kodak Film ... great video, I would love to go there and see all that stuff, incredible!!

What a great way to spend a day. Thanks for documenting it lads.

That was incredible - I had no idea about Kodak HQ. Loved the infos and the feel of the video.

This is one of my favorite videos you've done! I loved hearing about the history of Kodak.

Verry much enjoyed this.

Awesome experience. Thanks for sharing George

Good flick. Inspiring

That's really cool.

GOOD WORK THANKS .

Good to hear the building is being used for something...camera club. As an employee, husband could get pretty much..unlimited..amounts of film for our use and the pictures were printed for free for us. Husband was in Sales and they were pretty much ...favored with extra allowances.

Nice video ! so much fun seeing the gang exploring ! Looking forward to the next one

Absolutely loved this! So stoked for this series!

Definitely on my bucket list of places to go!

i got goosebumps

Awesome and a piece of history right there.

Nice. I really enjoyed the Kodak tour. Thanks for sharing!

Great doc! Like always, can't wait for the next video.

This is amazing! Beautiful pictures!! Thank you for this guys!

One of my fav new channels I've discovered. Keep it up!

This is a part of America best left untouched.

WOW , a picture of the swimming pool that was NEVER used as it was built on the top floor of B-28 and couldn't support the weight. Was there for 34 years and never saw it !

Amazing, thanks for show us Graceland!!

This is beyond cool. It is beautiful.

Great vid! Looking forward to the Road Trip part II!

This was great. Thanks for sharing the experience.

Just wanted to say this video was so damn magical!! It open my eyes to the impossible made possible, I love your work @negativefeedback and hope to meet you one day, I too am a film photographer hoping to be divulged into this beautiful world of film.

...Wow, this is so epic... and i am turning green in the face. Cool video!

I'm big fan of your channel, it's amazing seeing this video on your channel cause I'm from Rochester

Awesome!

I really really love your channel George, keep up the amazing work!

Tom Bodette here - Motel 6 - we'll leave the light on for ya!

I've always wondered what Kodak's facility looked like. I assumed most of it would have to be quite dark :'). Thanks for the tour, super informative!

this was sick and really interesting + the filming and the flics are awesome. pls do more pals ❤️🙏🏼

This is so cool. Also love the color grading

Love your lazy documentary style. What a fabulous building. Would love to visit.

One of the best episodes you’ve done so far :)

Thanks to you I got to see inside Kodak factory, thank you!