The one silver lining is that Kodak will continue producing color and black-and-white film, news that should make traditional photographers happy.

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While the monied hob-nobbed around cosmopolitan London, the Black Country got grimy producing the country's wealth, and perhaps as a consequence, its citizens were regarded as dull.

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Producer Bob Rock was inducted into the Juno Hall of Fame for his work, which includes producing Metallica's Grammy-winning Black album.

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Producing a segment on the low marriage rates in black America was not without its challenges.

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For the first 20 years of his active career, Redon worked almost entirely in black, using charcoal and grease pencil and eventually producing lithographs of images as dark as their media.

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Hip-hop producer and emcee Black Milk, meanwhile, has taken to recording and producing recordings in his Dallas apartment.

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Dominated by the benchmark price of Brent crude, the black stuff that flowed from what was once the North Sea's biggest-producing field, the work of these PRAs has been looked at in some technical detail by the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).

BBC: Setting prices crudely

The founder of a company producing features for cable television stations, who is obsessed with film noir -- murder mysteries shot in black and white "with warped gangsters and neurotic heroes and dangerous women, shiny wet streets and big black cars with their headlights on" -- has disappeared.

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