Photo caption: Orpheum Theatre in Kansas City, showing the entire company: stage employees, actors and managers.
\nThe laboratory technicians worked in some of the most dismal conditions in the entire movie industry. \u00a0Thirty years later, a technician would recall:
\n\u201cThe expression \u2018lab rat\u2019. . . \u00a0is a mock title, self-bestowed by the film technicians themselves. \u00a0Wrapping film upon racks which were carried by hand and dipped by hand in one tank after another, until developing processes were completed, then winding the developed film onto large, hand-turned drums for drying was a far cry from present techniques (in 1954). \u00a0With the realization that every day was spent wading in the various solutions or working in the dark, airless rooms with the end of the shift being the completion of the job, then perhaps the phrase \u2018lab rat\u2019 will have a little more significance.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12720,"template":"","yoast_head":"\n