George Eastman - Hollywood, CA
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This is a special star...and there is a second star for George Eastman on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Waymark Code: WMP7M0
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 07/15/2015
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Hollywood honors over 2400 celebrities of stage, screen, song and radio with stars like this one along the Hollywood Walk of Fame- fifteen blocks along Hollywood Blvd.
This special star honors George Eastman who ounded the Eastman Kodak Company.
The Hollywood Walk of Fame's website (
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"George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) was an American innovator and entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and popularized the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. Roll film was also the basis for the invention of motion picture film in 1888 by the world’s first film-makers Eadweard Muybridge and Louis Le Prince, and a few years later by their followers Léon Bouly, Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers, and Georges Méliès.
FACT FILE
Born: July 12, 1854 Waterville, New York, U.S.
Died: March 14, 1932 (aged 77) Rochester, New York, U.S.
Resting place: Ashes buried at Eastman Business Park (Kodak Park)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Businessman, inventor, philanthropist
Known for: Photography pioneer, Founder of Eastman Kodak
Net worth: USD $95 million at the time of his death (approximately 1/611th of US GNP)
Parent(s): George Washington Eastman (1815–1862) and Maria Kilbourn (1821–1907)"