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Kodak Colorama

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Colorama
The Colorama as first installed, 1950
Status	Defunct
Genre	Photography
Date(s)	1950 (1950)-1990 (1990)
Location(s)	Grand Central Terminal's Main Concourse east balcony

The Colorama was a large photographic display located on the east balcony inside New York City's Grand Central Terminal from 1950 to 1990, with 565 being made.^[1] Used as advertisements by the Eastman Kodak Company, the photographs were backlit (with a mile of tubing)^[2] transparencies 18 feet (5.5 meters) tall by 60 feet (18 meters) wide. The photographs were described as "The World's Largest Photographs".

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• George Eastman House Collection, Colorama: The World's Largest Photographs, Aperture Foundation, New York, 2004. ISBN 1-931788-44-8.

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• Colorama: The Stories Behind the Pictures Documentary Site

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