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<p>Photographer Steve McCurry takes a photo of a Bollywood actor in Mumbai, India, with the last Kodachrome roll. Betting its future on digital photography, Kodak discontinued the slide and motion-picture film with a production run last August in which a master sheet nearly a mile long was cut up into more than 20,000 rolls. McCurry requested the final 36-exposure strip. After ninr months of planning, he embarked in June on a six-week odyssey. Trailing him was a TV crew from National Geographic Channel, which plans to broadcast a one-hour documentary early next year.</p>

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Shooting the last roll of Kodachrome
August 5, 2010 9 p.m.

Shooting the last roll of Kodachrome

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - What should a photographer shoot when he's entrusted with the very last roll of Kodachrome?