It’s not just Hollywood filmmakers like Christopher Nolan (who shot Oppenheimer on large format color and black-and-white film created by Kodak) who continue to embrace shooting with film.

It took well over a decade between Kodak's invention of digital cameras and the first ones for consumers. What were the reasons for the long delay?

black-and-white photography, in its elegant simplicity, has required few new innovations to create images. A roll of film for use in the Kodak Vest Pocket camera. If this 1924 film, missing for ...