The era of the film laboratory is over. In the early 1960s, British film laboratories employing 6000 people, processed millions of feet of film for newsreels, studios, advertisers, and television. Labs were big and small with such names as Colour Film Services, Kodak, Technicolor, as well as Henderson, Humphries, Kay’’s Pathe and Rank film laboratories. Some were household names. As memory fades so might our understanding of the vital importance of film labs disappear.
