The museum is an independent organization. Ektachrome is made by Kodak Alaris a British firm that wound up with Kodak consumer film division including Portra, T-max, Ektar and Ektachrome when Kodak couldn;t pay the union's pensions that it owed their employees in Great Britain. Kodak itself sold off most of its patents and films and everything else except movie production film used by Hollywood. That and a few side products are all that's left. This Kodak, from the original Kodak, is on its last legs. It's really a shame.
Sorry Alan, but you have it turned around.
All Kodak photographic film is manufactured by Eastman Kodak. They continue to use the facilities in Building 38 in Kodak Park in Rochester, New York.
The motion picture film (which is still produced in fairly large quantities) is marketed directly by Eastman Kodak.
The Kodak still films are manufactured by Eastman Kodak for Kodak Alaris and then marketed, sold and supported by Kodak Alaris.
As part of the Eastman Kodak bankruptcy settlement, the UK Kodak pension fund obtained the exclusive worldwide rights to market (not manufacture) Kodak still films and Kodak photo-chemistry. They also received the rights to market Kodak colour photographic paper, along with ownership of the Harrow manufacturing facility and leasehold interests in a number of other (manufacturing?) facilities around the world.
That pension fund incorporated Kodak Alaris to hold and operate those assets and realize on the value of that business.
Kodak Alaris recently sold the Harrow property, and now contract with Carestream in Colorado to manufacture the paper. The Carestream facility started out as Eastman Kodak's, but when Eastman Kodak divested itself of its X-ray film business a large portion of that ownership went to the newly formed Carestream company, who now manufacture and sell Kodak branded X-ray materials. Eastman Kodak must have retained some interest in that facility - most likely a leasehold interest - because the UK Kodak pension plan/Kodak Alaris did acquire that interest as well in the bankruptcy.
Eastman Kodak remains as a much larger entity than Kodak Alaris, although most of its business is no longer photographic, and it has some financial challenges.
