The Handle, by Kodak

This is an artist's conception of my first Kodak instant camera - The Handle. I bought it back in the Summer of 1977 to use on a family vacation. As I recall, the handle that cranked out the pictures broke off after a couple years. It's called "The Handle," but it's got two handles, a hand crank and the thing you grip on the other side. I wonder which handle was intended as the title of the camera?

This was my 13-year-old sister holding my little brother when he was less than two months old. Camera: Kodak Handle instant camera Film: Kodak Instant Color Film PR10 Date: August 10th, 1977 Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Handle NC Aug 10 1977 1hf

This was my sister Karla and her friend Sharon all dressed up for initiation into the Future Homemakers of America while they attended high school at NCOHS. I know one thing - I wouldn't want to make a home with a woman this homely! Taken with a Kodak Handle instant camera.on September 26th, 1977.

Taken with my Kodak Handle, circa 1978. Whoever created the late movie concept sure came up with a winner. I just found the picture today after having stored it away for all these years. I'd say that I only shot two packs, or 20 images, at the most with this camera back then. The local station, WTVW 7 out of Evansville, Indiana, has usually had a late, late movie in it's lineup.

Some items on the top of our television set back in 1977. Taken with a Kodak Handle instant camera. The television was a Zenith brand and it was a good one.

This could have been the first shot I ever took with my Kodak Handle instant camera. It was taken while my family was headed to Arizona for vacation and I remember this shot was taken of the Texas skies out the window of our moving vehicle. Camera: Kodak The Handle instant camera Date: August 1977 Location: Texas, U.S.A. Kodak Handle Texas 1df

Taken on a family vacation to Arizona in 1977 with my new Kodak instant camera. Camera: Kodak The Handle instant film camera Film: Kodak PR-10 instant print film (160 ASA) Date: circa August 16th, 1977 Location: Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A. Going Through New Mexico, 1977 1ff

This was my Great Uncle Vernon and my Dad in 1977. Vernon always made like he was a boxer, so Dad always played along. Vernon had quite a history and, in fact, used to be a cook on a chuck wagon back in the cattle drive days of the Southwest. Taken with a Kodak Handle instant camera in August, 1977, on our way back from a family vacation in Arizona. what happened here was that the flash cubes, tall, two-bulb-wide by five-bulb-high units, didn't go off so the two subjects were only backlit by the light coming in the window. I'd always considered this photo a failure because the flash didn't go off and expose it properly and I took a second one where the flash went off and the picture turned out perfect. But, looking at this one now, in a new light, it's kind of artistic looking after all. So maybe it wasn't a failure after all! Camera: Kodak The Handle instant camera Date: August 1977 Location: Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S.A. This picture was most likely taken on the day that Elvis Presley died. I remember we were freshening up in our hotel room before we went over to Loreas and Vernon's house when the news flashed over the television screen.

Mt. Graham, near Safford, Arizona. Taken in July 1977 with a Kodak Handle instant film camera. My family used to live right around this spot and this was our backyard view. (Without the buildings, of course. All we saw was desert all the way to the mountain's edge.)

Taken while in the driveway of some friends when my family went back to Arizona in 1977 to visit. Taken with a Kodak Handle instant camera on August 20th, 1977.

These are the Urreas, Joe and Lily with their daughter Debbie between them. They were our friends and neighbors when my family lived out in Safford, Arizona. Here they are pictured when we went on a family vacation back out to Arizona to visit them in 1977. Joe passed away several years back and their daughter Debbie died of suicide, but we still have contact with Lily and exchange calls often. Taken with a Kodak Handle instant camera on August 20th, 1977.