Kodachrome 40 Petition
http://www.petitiononline.com/k40/petition.html

Signing the above online "Please don't discontinue Kodachrome" petition requires less effort than shooting a roll of it (which you won't be able to do anyway if Kodak discontinues Kodachrome Super8 film stock). Please forward the URL to all friends and family who share the dismay about this recently announced decision. It might not be too late!

Paul Simon sang about it. Film students shot on it. Now, advocates are signing up to save Kodachrome, or at least its Super 8 motion-picture version, a 1965 technology that the Eastman Kodak Company would very much like to do without. Earlier this month, Kodak, based in Rochester, N.Y., delivered a shock to experimental, underground and just plain old-fashioned filmmakers when - one day after a May 8 celebration called Global Super 8 Day - it announced plans to discontinue its low-speed, fine-grained Kodachrome Super 8 film in favour of a new Ektachrome Super 8 product.

For those caught up on the digital revolution, the announcement was easily missed. But to film geeks around the world, Kodak might as well have declared the death of colour.

For those who love the quality of super 8mm, and like the fact that you can do stop motion animation, unlike DV; and for those who want to shoot the view out of the airplane window, but can't because all electrical devices must be switched off. And for those of you who like the idea that its good to see and think in different ways and to have a choice of which materials to use.. Please take a moment to sign this petition, and pass it along!


Kodak announcement at http://wwwuk.kodak.com/US/en/motion/about/news/super8.jhtml