what did george eastman make?
Roll film
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 Eastman Kodak sued Apple and Research In Motion ( RIM ) in January 2010 , filing two lawsuits against Apple and a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission against both Apple and RIM after the companies refused to pay royalties for use of Kodak 's patents for digital cameras . Kodak alleged Apple 's and RIM 's phones infringed on patented Kodak digital imaging technology . Kodak sought an injunction against further imports into the United States of Apple 's iPhone and RIM 's BlackBerry . After Kodak filed an additional suit in January 2012 against Apple and another against HTC claiming infringement of four of its key patents , Apple filed a countersuit with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to block Kodak 's efforts to use the disputed patents as collateral for loans . In the January complaint Kodak claimed violations of the same image preview technology at issue in the original dispute between Kodak , Apple , and RIM that is , as of 2012 , pending before ITC . In March 2012 , bankruptcy court judge Allen Gropper , overseeing Kodak 's restructuring , denied Apple 's request to file a patent complaint with the ITC over some of Kodak 's cameras , photo frames , and printers . In July 2012 , the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled that Kodak did not infringe on Apple 's patent technology for digital cameras , although a few days earlier Kodak lost its case before the ITC against Apple and RIM ; Kodak announced it would appeal that decision . 

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 Walt Disney Productions purchased the film rights to Gary K. Wolf 's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit ? shortly after its publication in 1981 . Ron W. Miller , then president of The Walt Disney Company saw it as a perfect opportunity to produce a blockbuster . Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman were hired to write the script , penning two drafts . Robert Zemeckis offered his services as director in 1982 , but Disney acknowledged that his previous films ( I Wanna Hold Your Hand and Used Cars ) were box office bombs , and thus let him go . Between 1981 and 1983 Disney developed test footage with Darrell Van Citters as animation director , Paul Reubens voicing Roger Rabbit , Peter Renaday as Eddie Valiant , and Russi Taylor as Jessica Rabbit . The project was revamped in 1985 by Michael Eisner , the then @-@ new CEO of Disney . Amblin Entertainment , which consisted of Steven Spielberg , Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy , were approached to produce Who Framed Roger Rabbit alongside Disney . The original budget was projected at $ 50 million , which Disney felt was too expensive . 

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 Some scholars — in particular , Gordon Hendricks , in The Edison Motion Picture Myth ( 1961 ) — have argued that the lab began working on a filmstrip machine much later and that Dickson and Edison misrepresented the date to establish priority for reasons of both patent protection and intellectual status . In any event , though film historian David Robinson claims that " the cylinder experiments seem to have been carried on to the bitter end " ( meaning the final months of 1890 ) , as far back as September 1889 — while Edison was still in Europe , but corresponding regularly with Dickson — the lab definitely placed its first order with the Eastman company for roll film . Three more orders for roll film were placed over the next five months . 

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 Meanwhile , innovations continued on another significant front . In 1907 , French @-@ born , London @-@ based Eugene Lauste — who had worked at Edison 's lab between 1886 and 1892 — was awarded the first patent for sound @-@ on @-@ film technology , involving the transformation of sound into light waves that are photographically recorded direct onto celluloid . As described by historian Scott Eyman , 

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 In 1922 , Sir Henry Wood explained the enduring success of the collaboration as follows : 
