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title: "When was the last roll of Kodachrome developed?"
description: "At Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas — the last lab on Earth that could, 30 December 2010. What happened, and whether it plausibly could happen again."
url: https://atoneplace.net/the-last-time/kodachrome/
site: "At One Place"
---

# When was the last roll of Kodachrome developed?

**When was the last roll of Kodachrome developed?: 30 December 2010**

At Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas — the last lab on Earth that could

Kodachrome required a development process so complex that by the end only one laboratory in the world still ran it, and Kodak had stopped making the chemicals. Photographers shipped final rolls to Kansas from around the world through 2010. The very last frames were shot by Steve McCurry, who had photographed the Afghan Girl on Kodachrome in 1984.

- **What:** At Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas — the last lab on Earth that could
- **When:** 30 December 2010
- **Category:** Technology that stopped
- **Could this change?:** Not in any foreseeable way. The event is closed.

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> This page gives a date and never a "years ago". These pages are built as static files, so a computed interval would freeze at build time and quietly become wrong — which on a reference site is worse than making the reader do the subtraction.

## Common questions

### When was the last roll of Kodachrome developed?

30 December 2010 — At Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kansas — the last lab on Earth that could.

### What happened?

Kodachrome required a development process so complex that by the end only one laboratory in the world still ran it, and Kodak had stopped making the chemicals. Photographers shipped final rolls to Kansas from around the world through 2010. The very last frames were shot by Steve McCurry, who had photographed the Afghan Girl on Kodachrome in 1984.

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