From the Belmont Club:

Dynamite Memories

A quick history of film and photography…be sure to read the second page and watch the Kodak commercial.  Some of the comments are pretty good too!

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“By the 1960s, film was no longer so volatile, but flashbulbs still generated a lot of heat and smoke. Remember flashbulbs? They were devices used to provide illumination when situations got beyond the pitiful sensitivities of film. The earliest flash devices used thermite, and later magnesium powder or filaments. They were in effect, miniature incendiary devices. By the time of the Kodak Instamatic, things had advanced far enough for these devices to be contained in receptacles called “flash cubes” — primed with fulminate.

That’s how people took family snaps. With film and miniature incendiary devices.”

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~Curtis in /\/\onTana! {!-{>