1915 Kodak Catalog
"Autographic Photography" was introduced in 1914. All Kodaks in the 1915 catalog, with the exception of the Panorams, were autographic. From the catalog: "How it is done. The Autographic Kodak has a spring door in the back which is closed by a stop. This little door covers the slot through which the writing is done on the red paper protecting the film. Any medium hard pencil, or the stylus which is provided for the purpose, can be used for writing the titles. The slot is so located as to bring the title into the margin between the exposures, when the number appears in the little red window. This brings the title at the bottom of an upright, or at the left end of a horizontal negative." "The Autographic Film Cartridge differs from the regular N. C. Film Cartridge in this respect: A thin red paper is used, instead of the familiar red and black (duplex) paper. This red paper, in itself, is not fully light-proof, but between it and the film is a thin strip of black displacing tissue which serves the double purpose of light-proofing the cartridge, and of permitting the recording on the film, by light, of the writing upon the red paper. When the data has been written on the red paper, and printed (by exposing with door open to the sky, but not the sun, for from one to five seconds) the record is photographically impressed on the film, and appears when the film strip is developed." |
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