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 		Al Young, a film editor and Arthur Gottlieb, a former lab developer bid at auction and purchase a film developing business on the 12th floor of an automobile garage on west 55th street in Manhattan. Despite the fact that auctioneer failed to supply the racks for the developing tanks, the partners forge ahead with their new business naming it DuArt Film Laboratory, Inc.

Third partner Jack Goetz comes on board and establishes the DuArt Film Titling Service gaining clients such as Paramount, Loews and Universal.

Al Young builds one of the first 35mm continuous processing machines. Continuous processing, a method still used today, was a vast improvement over the messy rack-in-tank method, where film was wound around wooden racks, which were dunked by hand in and out of developing and fixing tanks

The silent era comes to an end as a method to record sound synchronously with pictures is perfected. Al Young designs and manufactures sound modules for DuArt's contact printing machines, which enables composite sound prints to printed at the same time from separate picture and sound track negatives

DuArt gains work on the era's popular boxing matches at Madison Square Garden, a fast turn-around process that predates the techniques used in later years for news film footage.

DuArt's introduction to documentary features with "The Fight for Peace" Edited by Al Young

DuArt starts second film lab, Film Laboratories Ltd, in Toronto

DuArt build first Eastman color negative processing and printing machines. The first film shot in Eastman Color, " The Royal Journey" was processed here