Pixelmaster Loc: New England

A long time ago and far away Kodak and other film manufactures made small metal cans. I am sure that same were repurposed as salt and pepper shakers. Most however were later used to store small nuts, bolts and screws. After the film cans I recall how Kodak encapsulated Tri-X in foil which were sold in what we press photographers called "bricks". There were times in extreme cold when I could not open those foil lined enclosures so I would have to use my teeth to open it. Like many of you old timers I am sure you too have a small collection of these containers holding rolls of film from years ago.

Mike Fos Loc: Powhatan Virginia

I have a bunch of the plastic ones. They are great with my model railroad hobby.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

I wish I had saved more of those little cans. When I was a kid, I watched someone loading film into a camera. I was fascinated by the process and the little can. I have a lot of the plastic containers, but they're nothing special.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

I have hundreds of the plastic ones but only a few of the older metal cans.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Wow, I wish I thought of salt & pepper shakers for the old metal cans!!!

newriverpaddler Loc: West Virginia

I, like so many of you went through lots of film cans. Last year, I had none until I found some in a Camera Store/Museum. I hesitate to tell you I paid $17.00 for three of them.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

1/3 of those cans are from Agfa.

Mike Fos Loc: Powhatan Virginia

Agfa - Wasn't that a brand of film back in the old days?

Pixelmaster Loc: New England

Look up Agfa-Gevaert on the web for the history of Agfa.
As for one third of the cans being from Agfa you are correct
and I did mention however that other manufactures made
cans as well.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

I have a couple of "snap-caps" or "pop-cans", re-usable film canisters used when film was bought in a bulk roll (which I never did) and also for when the film came off of the spool in the camera. I used a dark bag to get the film out of the camera and put it in a snap-cap (sometimes a plastic film can). Motor drives and sometimes an overly aggressive film advance would pull the film off of the spool. When I worked at a camera shop, we used to get the film out of a canister that someone inadvertently wound the leader into the canister. We'd put the film spool in a pop can for them. Then we found "Leader Retrievers". I still have my leader retriever.

petercbrandt Loc: New York City, Manhattan

Oh yes, got quite a few of the metal cans, plain metal and painted, in my camera display in my man-cave and living room. My wife puts up with the many cameras because she was my photo stylist since 1970, but she is urging me to sell off some cameras.

Bipod

Agfa-Gevaert N.V. is a Belgian-German multinational. It traces it roots back to 1867.
It's first photographic product was the film developer Rodinal, first produced in 1891--
and still be being manufactured under license. It also made cameras and slide projectors.

Suprisingly, Agfa still makes photographic film, and sells it under the Lomography
and Rollei brands (but not the small "Agfa" on the packaging). But "AgfaPhoto" branded
films are now made by Fujifilm (according to Wikipedia) and sold by Lupus Imaging Media.

Agfa was once one of Germany's large chemical companies. In 1925, it became part of
German industrial giant I.G. Farben. It's photographic division was combined with
that of Bayer. In 1928, it acquired Ansco, the American film manufacturer.
In 1952, it was re-established as a wholly-ownsubsidiary of Bayer.
In 1962 it merged with Beligan company Gevaert Photo-Producten N.V.

In 2004, the photographic division was bought out by managment as AgfaPhoto GmbH,
but filed for bankruptcy after just one year. The brand is now licensed to unreleated
companies (Zombie brand alert!).

Full timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agfa-Gevaert

Bipod

At last count, 33 different brands of 167 different photographic films are being produced,
(with a couple dozen new ones added in the last three years).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_photographic_films

petercbrandt Loc: New York City, Manhattan

Wow!
thank you for that history.
Peter