Eastman Kodak company has donated 25,000 feet of 35mm color film stock to the Florida State University Film School. The donation was made by Kodak’s Director of Worldwide Educational Services, John Mason, at a brunch hosted by the company in Los Angeles to recognize the retirement of Dr. Ray Fielding, the FSU Film School’s founding permanent dean. Fielding is stepping down this Spring after thirteen years of service at FSU and a total of 46 years of teaching and administration at six different film schools.

Kodak has supported the work of film schools worldwide for many years,” said Fielding, “with product grants, informational resources, workshops featuring celebrated film makers and student scholarships, the latter of which are administered by the University Film and Video Association.”
“This donation of 35mm color stock is an especially generous one, and we are very grateful for it,” he added. “After fourteen years the FSU program remains the only major film school in America that pays for all of its students’ production expenses, thereby providing a level playing field on which they can perform. Our graduate thesis films are now all photographed on 35mm stock, thereby achieving the highest possible image quality available, and this donation is of great value to us and our students.”