In 2004, I won a pitching contest at the Banff TV festival, for the film that would eventually become Rip. It was called the “New Players Pitch”, and the prize was a bunch of film from Kodak. I got a whole bunch of 16mm, which I used for some sequences in Rip, and a whole bunch of Super8. I used the Super8 on various experimental things, but a box of Kodachrome (K40) sat around in the fridge at EyeSteelFilm for years and years.

Kodak discontinued making the stock a few years back, and then eventually outsourced development to a shop in Kansas. Dwayne’s Photo announced they would process the last roll at the end of 2010. Knowing all this, I dug out the last roll just before I moved away from Montreal last September, and filmed a day with my daughter Layla in the park. I forgot I had done that, and sometime around the middle of December found the roll, and rushed it Fedex to Dwayne’s.

As far as I know, Layla is the last kid on Kodachrome.

Unfortunately, the film got pretty degraded in that crummy fridge, and so it isn’t the full Kodachrome glory, but I still love the look of the stock and will really miss it.

1. damp-proofing-brighton liked this
2. android-application liked this
3. ronilancer liked this
4. kataskeuiistoselidwn reblogged this from brettgaylor
5. disneyinn reblogged this from brettgaylor and added:

   liked your work because it seems...real solid determination

6. disneyinn liked this
7. the-gym-nottingham liked this
8. the-gym-nottingham reblogged this from brettgaylor
9. petunkas liked this
10. vestidos-2012 liked this
11. vestidos-2012 reblogged this from brettgaylor
12. espectaculos liked this
13. espectaculos reblogged this from brettgaylor
14. ampingka liked this
15. chakra-healing reblogged this from brettgaylor
16. robbigarraway liked this
17. lillieschmunk liked this
18. tashanance liked this
19. brettgaylor posted this