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The Telegraph reports the final “retirement” of Kodachrome film as the last machine capable of processing it ran out of developing chemicals last Thursday. Dwayne’s Photo, a small family business in Parsons, Kansas, was the last place Kodachrome could be developed. Kodak announced in June 2009 that it would stop making the chemicals needed for the process, but had committed to supply Dwayne’s until the end of 2010.

First launched in 1935, it has been in use for 75 years, and has been superseded by digital technologies over the last decade. Many photographers will remember the excitement generated by the processed slides arriving, often weeks or months after the images were captured. R.I.P. Kodachrome.