Kodak announced Monday that Kodachrome color film will be discontinued after a 74-year run
has been eclipsed by the popularity of digital technology,
In the summer of 1937,
National Geographic magazine photographer W. Robert Moore took the first Kodachrome shots for the publication while on assignment in
Austria (above, cattle herders in Mayrhofen, Austria). (The National Geographic Society owns National Geographic News.)
pelican flies over a stormy Gulf of Mexico in a 1937 Kodachrome photograph
hikers wear matching red-tasseled caps in 1957 in Trollstegen,
Norway
A National Geographic writer and his son wave from a cable car on
France's Mont Blanc in a Kodachrome photograph published in the magazine in 1965.
Perhaps one of the most well known Kodachrome photos, National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry's haunting portrait of an Afghan refugee appeared on the cover of the magazine in June 1985.
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