Kodachrome

Cause of death

Killed by a successor

Made by

Eastman Kodak

Digital sensors removed the reason to shoot film, and the K-14 process was too complex to keep alive for the remainder.

Kodachrome produced colour so distinctive that it defined how the twentieth century looks in photographs, and it required a development process so specialised that only a handful of labs on Earth could handle it. Kodak stopped manufacturing it in 2009. The last roll was processed at Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas on 30 December 2010, and there is now no way to develop any remaining stock. The dyes are exceptionally stable, so the images will outlast almost everything shot since.