Who exported film to the communist?

[Nickfed]

But this IS a joke, right?

God, it just has to be. This whole thread is about as ludicrous as Henry Ford trying to patent the car, or was it the gasoiline, as I'm sure any perusal of the patents Kodak might, or might not have, will show.

I can't recall what film the Russians used, they probably just imported Orwo from East Germany and printed in Tura paper, just like alot of us did in the West.

I also detect a note of imperialist arrogance here. One might ask the same of the Italians, Germans, and the Swiss.

You would be amazed how many people didn't get their film out of yellow boxes. Millions of Indians did without Kodak for years, and they weren't even very "red".

 

[varjag]

The films were only b&w. I think the only 'red' producer of color films was ORWO.

Russian TASMA and SVEMA produced color films as well.

 

[pakeha]

God, it just has to be. This whole thread is about as ludicrous as Henry Ford trying to patent the car, or was it the gasoiline, as I'm sure any perusal of the patents Kodak might, or might not have, will show.

I can't recall what film the Russians used, they probably just imported Orwo from East Germany and printed in Tura paper, just like alot of us did in the West.

I also detect a note of imperialist arrogance here. One might ask the same of the Italians, Germans, and the Swiss.

You would be amazed how many people didn't get their film out of yellow boxes. Millions of Indians did without Kodak for years, and they weren't even very "red".

Ditto Nickfed, amazed that this got to page 3 before the obvious was stated.
oh those poor Russians, they did`nt have Kodak, or twinkies🙄
CW

 

[vnukov_pk]

This topic really got me. ROFL. How my commie dad and grandad lived without kodak, i wonder 🙂 hey, the reds even managed to send the first kosmonaut to space without USA help 🙂

 

[radi(c)al_cam]

My ex-flatmate grew up in East Berlin and apparently spent the whole year waiting for Christmas, when her mum would go to these shops and buy a tin of Quality Street for the family.

EEEEEK, that's gross.

Obviously, your friend's mum was very anxious regarding the fall of crapitalism.

Never tried GDR candy, but I know from experience: COMECON-time Hungarian, Czech or Polish candy was a lot tastier than "Quality Street" then or now.

 

[varjag]

I remember standing 6 hours in queue for half-rotten bananas in USSR in mid-1980s. But I guess you'll tell me now they were tastier than bananas of the rotten West 🙂

 

[radi(c)al_cam]

I remember standing 6 hours in queue for half-rotten bananas in USSR in mid-1980s. But I guess you'll tell me now they were tastier than bananas of the rotten West 🙂

Dear Eugene,
you hit the (deutsch) mark ;-)

Concerning "Quality Street" -- I ate these sweets sometimes in West Germany, but this product is basically unknown in Austria.

Perhaps today one can buy it at an UK store in Vienna, but I'm afraid it was not importable owing to our -- thankfully severe -- food law.

 

[Kip_S]

successful troll is successful

 

[John Robertson]

This topic really got me. ROFL. How my commie dad and grandad lived without kodak, i wonder 🙂 hey, the reds even managed to send the first kosmonaut to space without USA help 🙂

Yes and in 1959 photographed the far side of the moon,processed the film in the satelite, then transmitted the images back to earth. without the help of Kodak or Polaroid.🙄

 

[bobby_novatron]

Armchair geo-political 2 cents being thrown in: I think that the USSR and Comecon countries had excellent educational systems and feats of engineering. I just think there were so many inherent inefficiencies in the system that they couldn't get their "poop in a pile" ... i.e. lack of consumer goods, variable quality control, etc.

You can look at the successes of all the Salyut missions, MiG fighters, or perhaps the Buran (Soviet Shuttle) as isolated examples of how the Soviets could really excel in science and engineering.

I'm also sure that there's lots of camera aficionados who would vouch for the (mostly) excellent quality of the East German CZJ lenses available nowadays.

On the other hand, the Russian fellow that I bought my "Kiev" cameras from complained that while growing up in the USSR, he could never afford to buy a "Kiev". They were hard to get and extremely expensive.

 

[payasam]

It is always good for ignorance to be dispelled when many are reading or listening. Ignorance of course is a world-wide phenomenon. Just as some in the US appear to believe that photographic film began and will end with yellow cartons, so in the Muslim world we find uneducated people who believe that nothing existed before Islam, being blissfully unaware of the relative youth of their religion. "Hindus" are disbelieving when they are told that practices which they consider natural and inevitable are found among no other peoples in the world.