The Student Filmaker's Handbook is a compilation of information available in many different Kodak publications. It is a resource for you to use as you pursue a career in this most exciting of industries.
It will interest you to know that you are entering the film industry at one of its most exciting and dynamic times. Technological innovations recently announced and those just around the corner guarantee that FILM will be a fascinating career far into the next century. Silver halide technology, the bedrock of film manufacturing, is moving ahead each year with new KODAK T-GRAIN® Emulsions and new and improved color dye systems. Our scientists assure us that they will be able to improve the quality of film many times over in the next few years. What that means for you is that you will be recording sharper and more accurate color images than you have ever seen before.
Those images will be manipulated in many new ways. HDTV (High Definition Television) is on the horizon and just beyond that is the whole new world of digital transmission of images over optical fiber networks. Eastman Kodak Company has recently demonstrated a new CCD HDTV-Telecine and a High Resolution Electronic Intermediate System which will bridge the gap between electronic and silver halide technologies. And that is just the beginning. The good news for you is that your productions on film will be recorded on the one worldwide production standard.
Wherever your work takes you, film will be the standard for motion- picture image production. And what's more, you will have recorded your program on the highest resolution, brightest and most accurate color medium in the world. No other technology offers the quality of a film image; and remember, that quality is going to improve in the years ahead.
So, welcome to the motion picture industry. I hope you will find this book useful, and I hope you will look upon Eastman Kodak Company as a source of quality products and technical support now and in the future.
Sincerely,
Henri-Dominique Petit
Vice President and General Manager
Motion Picture and Television Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company