Kodak announced today that it is sell­ing its East­man Gela­tine plant in Peabody, Mass. Could this be the begin­ning of a big sell-off?

At the time of a fan­tas­tic 1999 Wall Street Jour­nal arti­cle (which I can now find online only here), East­man was pro­cess­ing 80 mil­lion pounds of bovine skele­tal remains a year to keep up with the world demand for pho­to­graphic film. (And sell­ing the rejects to make Jell-O, which appar­ently does not neces­si­tate the same level of purity as the photo industry.)