Mama don't take my Kodachrome away....

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We'd heard it was going to be February 1st.

We were wrong.

Eastman Kodak Co, which invented the hand-held camera and helped bring the world the first pictures from the moon, has filed for bankruptcy protection, capping a prolonged plunge for one of America's best-known companies.

The more than 130-year-old photographic film pioneer, which had tried to restructure to become a seller of consumer products like cameras, said it had also obtained a $950 million, 18-month credit facility from Citigroup to keep it going

The AP version of the story, with a bit less detail, is datelined Rochester, but the case was filed in Manhattan (where I can at least represent creditors), and as of 6 a.m., this is what the front page of the newspaper of record in its home town had to say about it:



Yup- real estate and Deal Chickens.

Good thing we saved the Interwebs yesterday, huh.

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Sigh.

Those little yellow canisters and boxes were all over my house when I was a kid.