As the last call for Kodachrome film processing drew near, Dwayne's Photo in Parsons, Kan., experienced one final flurry of film development requests. Film users from six continents — who had been storing and saving their prized Kodachrome film — sent in their last rolls before Dwayne's sold the old machine for scrap metal at the end of December...

The life of the world's oldest commercially successful color film has come to an end. After 74 years on the market, the Eastman Kodak Co. is retiring Kodachrome from the shelves.

The film was widely used in the 1950s and '60s to capture iconic images such as President Kennedy's assassination, Queen Elizabeth II's coronation and photojournalist Steve McCurry's portrait of an Afghan refugee girl...