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At Rochester he maintains a laboratory upon which he yearly spends hundreds of thousands of dollars. There—under the direction of Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees (B.S., D.Sc., Sc.D.) and the assistant direction of Dr. Samuel Edward Sheppard (B.Sc., D.Sc.)—work 80 chemists, physicists and photographic experts, with 60 assistants. Their problems are in the theory of photography, the development of new photographic apparatus, materials and processes, the study of the physical and chemical properties of gelatine and cellulose, the production of synthetic organic chemicals.
Two great goals those Eastman scientists have ahead of them and toward which progress has already been made—pictures that reproduce objects in their natural colors, and that give the impression of depth as well as of height and breadth. Colored cinemas are already being shown regularly. But they are painful to watch; the colors, notably the reds, do not blend properly. Pictures giving the illusion of three dimensions have also been cast and screened. To behold them, spectators have been obliged to use special and cumbersome opera-glasses. Nonetheless, these are stages on the way to perfect photography, and it may well be that upon his next trip George Eastman, to whom scientists owe as much thanks as he to them, will carry equipment that will record his exploits in three-dimensional and four-color exactitude.
*Similarly in 1868 James Gordon Bennett sent Journalist Henry Morton Stanley to locate David Livingstone in Africa.
*The first he made a year ago.
†Photographers of the current cinema Simba (lion). Mr. Eastman's hunt having ended, they, are at present in Africa on their own filming enterprise.
**Last week were reported the Eastman Kodak Co.'s 1927 profits—$20,142,161. President of the company is William G. Stuber, whom Governor Flem D. Sampson of Kentucky has just made a colonel on his official staff. Will Rogers, critic of U. S. mores, is a colonel on the same staff.
***"Brownie," the name of the small Eastman box camera, has less universality of spelling, sound, or sense, and is less commonly used.