Kodak Retina company, Eastman Kodak Company, lost any communication for financial information from Kodak AG in late 1939 (this information which can be found in the 1939 Eastman Kodak Company Annual Report to the EKC stockholders). In late 1941, all camera production stopped at Kodak A.G. At war's end, Stuttgart was in the American sector of West Germany and the US Military Government took control of the Kodak AG plant in Stuttgart at the end of the war. This US Military Government control continued until late 1947 and early 1948. During this time, the vast majority of Retina cameras (Type 010(early) Retina
Kodak selling inexpensive cameras and making large margins from consumables – film, chemicals and paper. As late as 1976, Kodak commanded 90% of film sales and 85% of camera sales in the U.S. Japanese competitor Fujifilm entered the U.S. market (via Fuji Photo Film U.S.A.) with lower-priced film and supplies, but Kodak did not believe that American consumers would ever desert its brand. Kodak passed on the opportunity to become the official film of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics; Fuji won these sponsorship rights, which gave it a permanent foothold in the marketplace. Fuji opened a film plant in the U.S.,