Word: film
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there probably will be little smiling on the other side of the shutter. Reacting to the rise in the price of silver from $6 per oz. to a high of $41.50 over the past year, Kodak last week announced increases of up to 75% on its whole line of film products. A twelve-exposure cassette of Kodacolor II, for example, went from $1.86 to $2.15, and a 36-picture roll of Kodachrome slides jumped from $4.40 to $5.29. The steepest increases were for graphic arts films and photo typesetting paper used by newspapers. Du Pont, a manufacturer...
Kodak is experimenting with ways to reduce the silver content of film, but scientists have yet to find any other material as sensitive to tight. With black and white film, the image is etched into grains of silver salts coated on the thin piece of plastic. Silver also captures the original image for color pictures, but is later replaced by colored dyes during development. Nonsilver film is being manufactured, though it is used primarily for slow-exposure microfilm. In all, the photo industry accounts for nearly half of the 160 million oz. of silver that the nation consumes annually...
While waiting and hoping for silver prices to decline, Kodak has stepped up its recycling procedures. The company already recovers 20 million oz. of the metal a year in processing amateur film and in scrap from its manufacturing operations. Even the silver that is punched out to make the tiny sprocket holes on 35-mm and home-movie film is meticulously collected and used again...
...guilty anger and depression impose terrible requirements of patience on his new love after she has committed herself to the more cheerful persona he originally showed her. Simon, of course, is writing autobiographically here; Marsha Mason, now Mrs. Simon, is playing at least a version of herself in this film. This speaks well of everyone's bravery; Mason's speech accepting the notion that she is worthy of love and encouraging her new husband to embrace a similar self-acceptance is truly moving...
...short, there is an old-fashioned man beneath the smart patter of Simon's dialogue. Moore has given his work a flat, old-fashioned production. And although Mason and Caan are agreeable people, they (and Moore) seem not quite up to the large emotions the film's dark second half requires them to express. Everything is a little too gingerly. In the end, the film must be judged as muted, likable, not all it might have been, but a nice-and terribly decent-try. -Richard Schickel