Kodak Donates Colorama Collection to The Eastman House Museum

A Colorama on view at Grand Central Terminal in New York City. The George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film will celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Kodak Colorama by staging a four-month exhibition that opens June 19. -  AP Photo/George Eastman House

ROCHESTER, NY.-

Eastman Kodak Co. is turning over its archive of panoramic
Colorama
images to a hometown photography museum in upstate New York where its
founder
lived. George Eastman House said Friday the collection includes original

negatives and prints of all 565 gigantic Coloramas displayed in New
York’s Grand
Central Terminal from 1950 to 1990. Those backlit transparencies,
promoted by
Kodak as the “world’s largest photographs,” measured 60 feet long by 18
feet
high. New elongated images were installed every three weeks, depicting
landscapes, sporting events and family celebrations and vacations.

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