Gallery: Photos of Film's Demise: Empty Labs and Demolition Days Are Analog's Farewell
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*Implosions of buildings 65 and 69, Kodak Park, Rochester, New York \[#1\] October 6, 2007.*
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*Implosions of buildings 65 and 69, Kodak Park, Rochester, New York \[#2\] October 6, 2007.*
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*Nathan Lyon's darkroom, Rochester, 2009.*
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*George Eastman Memorial, Kodak Park, Rochester, New York, 2010.*
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*Art Photo Studio: Closed due to retirement, Toronto, Ontario, 2005.*
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*View of Kodak head offices from the Smith Street Bridge, Rochester, New York, 2008.*
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*Dwayne's Photo Lab, Parsons, Kansas, December 30, 2010.*
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*Film-coating facility, AGFA-Gevaert, Mortsel, Belgium \[#2\], 2007.*
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*Film warehouse, AGFA-Gevaert, Mortsel, Belgium \[#1\], 2007.*
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*After the failed implosion of the Kodak-Pathé Building GL, Chalon-sur-Saône, France, December 10, 2007.*
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*Interior of building W1, Polaroid, Waltham, Massachusetts, 2009.*
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*Employee identification board, Polaroid, Enschede, The Netherlands, 2010*
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*Coffins of film, film-finishing building, Ilford, Mobberley, United Kingdom, 2010.*
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*Warehouse and photo-chemistry building, Ilford, Mobberley, United Kingdom, 2010.*
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*Film, Ilford, Mobberley, United Kingdom, 2010.*
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*End of employee meeting, west parking lot, last day of manufacturing operations, Kodak Canada, Toronto, June 29, 2005.*
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*Entrance to cutting rooms, Building 10, Kodak Canada, Toronto, 2005.*
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*Darkroom, Building 3, Kodak Canada, Toronto, 2005.*
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*Employee darkroom area, Building 9, Kodak Canada, Toronto, 2009.*
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*Stairwell to drying rooms, Building 13, Kodak Canada, Toronto, 2005.*
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*Demolition of Building 13, Kodak Canada, Toronto, 2007.*
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*Executive entrance, Building 7, Kodak Canada, Toronto, 2005.*
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*Former Toronto Film Studios, proposed site of new Walmart, Toronto, Ontario, 2011.*
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