SUPER 8 COMMUNIQUE
FEBRUARY 1997

We will be discontinuing certain Super 8 film products in the future while continuing to offer others. Manufacturing environmental regulations have negatively impacted our ability to continue the manufacture of sound striped Super 8 film. We will continue to offer sound striped Super 8 film only as long as our current inventory lasts. While we are continuing to explore alternatives to our manufacture, we have not found an alternative answer at this time.

We have discontinued our manufacture of current Ektachrome Super 8 film products. This decision was based on our inability to meet current governmental regulations for Health and Safety. Based on our present sales level of these products, coupled with a historical downward sales trend line and the expectations that this sales history will continue into the future, we cannot invest, in good faith, with our total stockholder population, in research and development to reformulate these emulsions without the expectation that we will be able to recoup that investment at some point in the future.

The Super 8 film product that we are discontinuing is the 200' Kodachrome Super 8 Sound Cartridge. The discontinuance of this product is based on the previously mentioned manufacturing environmental regulations that have negatively impacted our ability to continue to manufacture sound striped Super 8 film products. We must also point out that the "market demand" for this product in the United States (our largest geographic market for this product) was less than 1,000 units/year the past two years.

Having said all of the above, we hasten to assure all our loyal Super 8 customers, worldwide, that it is our intention to continue to offer Super 8 Kodachrome Silent and Super 8 Plus X and Tri X Reversal Silent films to the marketplace just as long as there is a reasonable market demand. Of course, we must also assume that there will not be further governmental regulations that will adversely affect our ability to continue to manufacture these products.

Included in the communique is an estimate, based on historical sales data, for when we expect to be out of stock and, thus, out of business on our various sound striped Super 8 products and the Super 8 Ektachrome products. Product discontinuance notices will be issued through our normal channels as we approach the actual stock-out dates.

All Super 8 film products that we will continue to offer are now available directly from Eastman Kodak Company in "case lot or sleeve" (inner case lot packaging, where applicable) quantities. In addition, Consumer Imaging dealers and Kodak Express stores will continue to be able to offer these products through their retail/photographic stores.

In closing, let us acknowledge that the actions we must take relative to discontinuing our manufacture of sound striped Super 8 products are not easy for any of us. We will continue to explore alternatives but must, in good faith, not raise expectations beyond what we are able to deliver. At the present, we have not found an alternative answer. We will continue to search.

Catalog Number	Description	Expected Stockout Date
180-9359	200ft. Kodachrome Sound (E)	December 1997
157-5091	50ft. Kodachrome Sound	October 1997
182-9597	15m Kodachrome Sound (E)	December 1997
129-1004	15m Ektachrome 160A Sound (E)	May 1997
501-9294	50ft. Kodachrome 40A	Continues to be available
502-2728	50ft. Ektacrhome 160G	March 1997
502-9046	50ft. Tri-X	Continues to be available
502-9087	50ft. Plus-X Reversal	Continues to be available
505-3335	15m Kodachrome	Continues to be available
501-0053	15m Kodachrome	Continues to be available