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Given the date and on the understanding that this is a European nudist magazine, the chances are high that the colour system used was from Agfa, a German company founded in 1867 as a dye manufacturer by Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (son of composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy) and Carl Alexander von Martius. L. Gevaert & Cie, Antwerp, Belgium, producers of photographic paper, went into partnership with Agfa and today, the multinational is known as Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
In 1971, Afga launched Agfacontour Professional, in direct competition to Kodachrome, and as a manufacturer of cinematic film, also Technicolor. By this time, the Common Market was in full swing and with the recognition by the Federal Republic of the Democratic Republic to the East, the latter also became a "ghost member" of the Common Market and Agfa film found its profitable way into Comecon, which was the socialist equivalent.
Britain joined the Common Market in 1972 and Agfa flooded the market with special offers with targeted "economic dumping". Theretofore, we had systematically used Kodachrome, manufactured under licence. I was none too impressed. The developed photograph seemed to have a "milky" quality to it, in comparison with the sharp resolution of Kodachrome.
The clincher came when we all learnt that in 1925, Agfa-Gevaert were consolidated into I G Farben. Between 1939-1945, Agfa used forced labourers, including concentration camp prisoners in the Munich subcamp (Agfa Kamerawerke) of the Dachau concentration camp and in the Dutch transit camp of Kamp Westerbork. Parts of the Agfa company management were indicted after the war in the I G Farben trial before an American military tribunal. I G Farben was also responsible for the manufacture of Zyclon B, used in the death camps.
In 1945 under the Allies, the I G Farben conglomerate was split up into different companies and Agfa was reconstituted (as a subsidiary of Bayer) in 1952. It benefited from funds secreted abroad - mostly in Latin America - by Martin Bormann, which ruse was largely responsible for the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle).
The bottom fell out of the British market with a loud bang. The boycott was unofficial, received no publicity but was nonetheless widespread, at a time when popular opinion was that we had won the war but the Germans had won the peace.
Don't start me on I G Farben. The name means color or dye corporation, but their industrial empire was wider that just that. They happily participated in some of the worst Nazi and environmental atrocities over the decades.
Dad was using Kodachrome in the early 1960s. I used it in the 1970s and 1980s. Then it was banned.
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That famous Paul Simon song comes to mind.
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Given the date and on the understanding that this is a European nudist magazine, the chances are high that the colour system used was from Agfa, a German company founded in 1867 as a dye manufacturer by Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (son of composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy) and Carl Alexander von Martius. L. Gevaert & Cie, Antwerp, Belgium, producers of photographic paper, went into partnership with Agfa and today, the multinational is known as Agfa-Gevaert N.V.
ReplyDeleteIn 1971, Afga launched Agfacontour Professional, in direct competition to Kodachrome, and as a manufacturer of cinematic film, also Technicolor. By this time, the Common Market was in full swing and with the recognition by the Federal Republic of the Democratic Republic to the East, the latter also became a "ghost member" of the Common Market and Agfa film found its profitable way into Comecon, which was the socialist equivalent.
Britain joined the Common Market in 1972 and Agfa flooded the market with special offers with targeted "economic dumping". Theretofore, we had systematically used Kodachrome, manufactured under licence. I was none too impressed. The developed photograph seemed to have a "milky" quality to it, in comparison with the sharp resolution of Kodachrome.
The clincher came when we all learnt that in 1925, Agfa-Gevaert were consolidated into I G Farben. Between 1939-1945, Agfa used forced labourers, including concentration camp prisoners in the Munich subcamp (Agfa Kamerawerke) of the Dachau concentration camp and in the Dutch transit camp of Kamp Westerbork. Parts of the Agfa company management were indicted after the war in the I G Farben trial before an American military tribunal. I G Farben was also responsible for the manufacture of Zyclon B, used in the death camps.
In 1945 under the Allies, the I G Farben conglomerate was split up into different companies and Agfa was reconstituted (as a subsidiary of Bayer) in 1952. It benefited from funds secreted abroad - mostly in Latin America - by Martin Bormann, which ruse was largely responsible for the Wirtschaftswunder (economic miracle).
The bottom fell out of the British market with a loud bang. The boycott was unofficial, received no publicity but was nonetheless widespread, at a time when popular opinion was that we had won the war but the Germans had won the peace.
The rest is history.
Don't start me on I G Farben. The name means color or dye corporation, but their industrial empire was wider that just that. They happily participated in some of the worst Nazi and environmental atrocities over the decades.
DeleteWe have some of my Dad's Kodachrome slides from 1950-DeeExx
ReplyDeleteI still have some 3-D Kodachrome Viewmaster slides of Alice in Wonderland.
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