From America’s No.1 Film Empire to Ruins: The Kodak Factory, Rochester

Описание: For generations, The Kodak Factory in Rochester wasn’t just a workplace — it was the engine of America’s No.1 film empire, a symbol of American industry, precision manufacturing, and the kind of factory power that could define an entire city. Then, quietly, the empire cracked. What once felt permanent began to look like industrial ruins.

This documentary tells the story behind From America’s No.1 Film Empire to Ruins: The Kodak Factory, Rochester — how Kodak built a world-shaping system of american factories, why Rochester became a global center of film and imaging, and how changing rules of American industrial history turned dominance into decline. It’s factory history and corporate history in its most dramatic form: a giant machine that couldn’t stop time.

By tracing the rise, collapse, and aftermath of The Kodak Factory in Rochester, this film explores the larger pattern behind rust belt history: consolidation, shifting technology, and the hidden cost communities pay when a flagship factory fades. This is hidden history — untold history — written into brick, empty floors, and silence.

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