Videojournalism

Chapter 9 Combining Audio and Stills

DOI: 10.4324/9780240814667-9

Last Roll of Kodachrome. In this video, photographer Robert Cohen narrates and describes how he dug a final roll of expired Kodachrome 200 out of the back of his freezer, carefully and lovingly shot 36 frames at the Missouri State Fair, and then drove the film hundreds of miles to Kansas to have it developed before the only remaining laboratory closed forever.

(Photo by Robert Cohen, St. Louis Post Dispatch)

Slideshows date from the latter half of the 1800s when explorers returning from the North or South Pole, Africa, or the tip of South America shared photographs of their ...