Kodak’s Coloramas at the New York Transit Museum

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His first assignment was to make a fall-themed Colorama. He went to Vermont at the peak of the leaves’ color, driving around for a couple of days looking for scenes. He found a nice scene on a small lake. He painted a borrowed rowboat red and hired a couple of locals to sit in the boat. To take the picture, he used an 8×20-inch Deardorff camera with ISO 10 film and a “very strong, powerful tripod.”