In 1975, an engineer at Eastman Kodak built the world’s first digital camera. His employer sold nine out of every ten rolls of film in America, and would spend the next three decades being destroyed by the very technology it had invented.

This is the full story of Kodak: how a high-school dropout named George Eastman turned a failed vacation into the company that taught the world to take pictures, built a city around it in Rochester, New York, and made « the Kodak moment » shorthand for memory itself. It’s the story of the razor-and-blades empire built on film, the research lab that invented the digital camera and the OLED screen, the designers who turned the camera into an object of desire, the spy satellites and Moon cameras, the slow collapse into bankruptcy, and the strange afterlife in which film came back as art.

A documentary on invention, dominance, and the hardest thing for any great company to do: walk away from the thing that made it rich.

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