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Films is Paul Graham’s eulogy to the physical material of photography: film. The 20th century’s greatest medium has undergone a catastrophic decline over the past decade as digital cameras have swept aside the traditional process of taking photographs. Film has died: Kodacolor, Fujicolor, Tri-X, Kodachrome, Ektacolor all evocative names for any photographer are now gone or fading fast. Yet this magical material is a true product of both science- silver salts suspended in gelatin emulsion on celluloid base, and magical alchemy – it could capture light. Film became one of the defining materials of the 20th century, and just as oil paint or marble in their time, i