Who exported film to the communist?

[Ranger Copy]

The FED and FED 2 were produced in the fifties...the cold war. Assuming(this is where it get's dicey)ahem, assuming Kodak still had the patent/market how did the reds get any 35mm film to shoot? I found a dead thread saying something about Lomo making 35mm film. just curious.

p.s. reds is a fifties slang...this is not a politcal post. the term reds in my 21st century home refers to republicans.

 

[gb hill]

35mm film goes way back before the fifties. Wasn't it a motion picture film also. Foma is Czech Republic but i don't know how far back it goes.

 

[t.s.k.]

I don't see how Kodak could or would enforce any patent infringement if there was any.
I'd think the USSR could do just about whatever they pleased.

...I have no proof, documentation or otherwise....just me thinking out loud...

 

[Mablo]

The soviet/eastern block did not import any consumer goods from western countries. They manufactured their own film and everything else what was needed for photography. Patents - western or eastern - were an unknown concept.

 

[Santafecino]

Patents??! Look at the Fed! It's a Leica copy!

 

[mervynyan]

Check out the story of KMZ

 

[mervynyan]

Patents??! Look at the Fed! It's a Leica copy!

yes, it is production copy after wwii, not patent infringement. same goes with V-rcoket, etc...

 

[SolaresLarrave]

The reds? I hadn't heard this expression in ages...

 

[ZeissFan]

In photography, patents seem to mean little, regardless of the country. From lens designs to shutters to bodies, everything was fair game. Plagiarism seems to be the sincerest form of flattery.

 

[jonmanjiro]

Aren't "The Reds" the Korean national soccer team?

 

[Bingley]

Aren't "The Reds" the Korean national soccer team?

No, silly, they're the Cincinatti baseball team.

 

[jonmanjiro]

No, silly, they're the Cincinatti baseball team.

So, I went to Google, typed in "The Reds" and hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, and sure enough ..... I was taken to the Cincinnati Reds website Doh :bang:

 

[Ranger Copy]

ahhh, plagarism. so why don't see any USSR film on ebait for a good prices?

 

[jan normandale]

this thread's OP is a joke right?

 

[payasam]

I'll die laughing at the inanity of it.

 

[wotalegend]

I'm not sure if the OP is serious or just fishing for comment, but he's got it wrong with regard to timing. The first FED camera was made in 1932 and the first FED 2 was made in 1940. Many thousands of FED 1s were made and sold prior to WW2. I have a FED 1 made in 1941 just before the Germans invaded Ukraine.

And if Kodak controlled the 35mm film market as late as the fifties as the OP opines, how did all the other film and camera manufacturers in Europe, Japan, and other countries get their start, many before WW2?

 

[sebastel]

y'all forget that there is no (civilized) world outside the US. the FED did not really exist (it's only a fake produced by the CIA for a FUD campaign), and the reds actually used charcoal to scribble on their cave walls.

 

[Vobluda]

Do you really think that it is so difficult to produce any kind of film? :bang:

The FED and FED 2 were produced in the fifties...the cold war. Assuming(this is where it get's dicey)ahem, assuming Kodak still had the patent/market how did the reds get any 35mm film to shoot? I found a dead thread saying something about Lomo making 35mm film. just curious.

p.s. reds is a fifties slang...this is not a politcal post. the term reds in my 21st century home refers to republicans.

 

[dotur]

Maybe it was a part of the Hitler-Stalin Pact:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Kodaks_NaziConnections.html

 

[Rayt]

It is essentially motion picture film, right?