Kodak | 1922
A camera ad always brings to mind the many cameras that came after: film, disposable, waterproof, automatic, SLR, zoom and finally digital.
Kodak is part of history now, and so is developing photos from a holiday, a trip or a birthday. Today almost everyone, even children, carries a camera in their pocket, along with their music, films, albums and books, all in one device. Millions even have their own photo gallery on Instagram, Pinterest or Flickr.
This Kodak ad, almost 100 years old, ran in the Spanish magazine Blanco y Negro. It describes a camera “so small it fits in your pocket, so perfectly made that anyone can take pictures without training”.
Almost a century later, the same arguments could sell today’s phones.
Text in the ad
Este es el Kodak que debe usted comprar.
Sus dimensiones son tan reducidas que permite llevarlo en el bolsillo del chaleco.
Su confección es tan perfecta que hace fotografías sin necesidad de aprendizaje.
Su precio es económico.
Su nombre, universalmente conocido, es el Kodak Vest Pocket Autográfico.
Precios: desde 59 pesetas
Kodak, S.A. · Madrid: Puerta del Sol, 4 · Barcelona: Fernando, 3
Conserve sus momentos felices con un Kodak
Translation:
This is the Kodak you should buy.
It is so small it fits in your waistcoat pocket.
It is so perfectly made that it takes pictures with no training needed.
Its price is economical.
Its name, known all over the world, is the Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic.
Prices from 59 pesetas
Kodak, S.A. · Madrid: Puerta del Sol, 4 · Barcelona: Fernando, 3
Keep your happy moments with a Kodak
- Brand
- Kodak
- Year
- 1922
- Decade
- 1920s
- Country
- Spain
- Medium
- Magazine
- Themes
- Technology
- Original publication
- Blanco y Negro, 1922
