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Once upon a time, it was a common American ritual to sit in the living room as mom and/or dad projected slides from their vacation or the kid's birthday party on the wall, the whirring and clicking of the projector providing an aural accompaniment. The slide projector was also a common item in schools, conference rooms and art spaces, but as digital photography and electronic image projection is slowly but surely replacing silver-based photography, use of slides is steadily declining, especially among amateurs, and in 2006 Eastman Kodak, once the world's biggest manufacturer of carousel-style slide projectors, announced that they were discontinuing production on the items. Documentary filmmaker Paige Sarlin brought a small camera crew to Rochester, New York to chronicle the production of Kodak's final slide machine, and The Last Slide Projector profiles the people who helped make the machine and their reactions to the end of an era, as well as pondering the long history and uncertain future of slides as a creative medium. The Last Slide Projector was screened in competition at the 2007 Rotterdam International Film Festival.