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Part one - Polaroid's rise: youtu.be/uK3F1d9YbqI
Polaroid tried to create a crazy instant cine film format. But let’s put that into some context. By the 1970s Polaroid were riding high, printing money with their line of easy-to-use cameras that produced instant pictures. In 1979 they did around £1.1B ($1.4B USD, €1.3B, $2.1B AUD) of business around the world. The new plastic Polaroid cameras of the late 1970s and early 1980s provided an inexpensive way of getting into simple instant photography. Inexpensive cameras made sense for Polaroid as the money was in buying instant film over, and over, and over again. Polaroid was sitting on a pile of cash from the 1960s and so started looking for other markets to disrupt.
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Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_mm_film
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_8_film
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polavision
nytimes.com/1982/07/28/business/era-ends-as-land-leaves-polaroid.html
web.archive.org/web/20050510080051/http:/www.people.umass.edu/jpalma/instant_slide.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_Corporation
nytimes.com/1985/04/23/science/peripherals-double-play-in-baseball-software.html
nytimes.com/1985/07/21/business/what-s-new-in-computer-repair-recovering-data-from-damaged-disks.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_camera
web.archive.org/web/19970619013207/http://www.polaroid.com/press-releases/august96/082696a.html
web.archive.org/web/19970619013427/http://www.polaroid.com/press-releases/march96/031196a.html
web.archive.org/web/19970619013413/http://www.polaroid.com/press-releases/april96/041196a.html
web.archive.org/web/19990202232224/http://www.polaroid.com/polinfo/press-releases/september98/091698a.html
web.archive.org/web/19990202222653/http://www.polaroid.com/polinfo/press-releases/september98/091498b.html
camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Polaroid_Pop_Shots
camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Polaroid_JoyCam
web.archive.org/web/20160611144238/http:/www.imaginginfo.com/article/article.jsp?id=818&siteSection=27
zink.com/home/about-us
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zink_(printing)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instax
kickstarter.com/projects/impossible/impossible-instant-lab-turn-iphone-images-into-rea/posts
the.supersense.com/collections/packfilm
#littlecar
Part one - Polaroid's rise: youtu.be/uK3F1d9YbqI
Polaroid tried to create a crazy instant cine film format. But let’s put that into some context. By the 1970s Polaroid were riding high, printing money with their line of easy-to-use cameras that produced instant pictures. In 1979 they did around £1.1B ($1.4B USD, €1.3B, $2.1B AUD) of business around the world. The new plastic Polaroid cameras of the late 1970s and early 1980s provided an inexpensive way of getting into simple instant photography. Inexpensive cameras made sense for Polaroid as the money was in buying instant film over, and over, and over again. Polaroid was sitting on a pile of cash from the 1960s and so started looking for other markets to disrupt.
Check out the Analog Resurgence YouTube channel: @AnalogResurgence
To get early ad-free access to new videos, or your name at the end of my videos, please consider supporting me from just $1 or 80p a month at patreon.com/bigcar
Link to my other channel - Big Car:
https://youtube.com/bigcar2
Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8_mm_film
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_8_film
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polavision
nytimes.com/1982/07/28/business/era-ends-as-land-leaves-polaroid.html
web.archive.org/web/20050510080051/http:/www.people.umass.edu/jpalma/instant_slide.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_Corporation
nytimes.com/1985/04/23/science/peripherals-double-play-in-baseball-software.html
nytimes.com/1985/07/21/business/what-s-new-in-computer-repair-recovering-data-from-damaged-disks.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_camera
web.archive.org/web/19970619013207/http://www.polaroid.com/press-releases/august96/082696a.html
web.archive.org/web/19970619013427/http://www.polaroid.com/press-releases/march96/031196a.html
web.archive.org/web/19970619013413/http://www.polaroid.com/press-releases/april96/041196a.html
web.archive.org/web/19990202232224/http://www.polaroid.com/polinfo/press-releases/september98/091698a.html
web.archive.org/web/19990202222653/http://www.polaroid.com/polinfo/press-releases/september98/091498b.html
camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Polaroid_Pop_Shots
camerapedia.fandom.com/wiki/Polaroid_JoyCam
web.archive.org/web/20160611144238/http:/www.imaginginfo.com/article/article.jsp?id=818&siteSection=27
zink.com/home/about-us
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zink_(printing)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instax
kickstarter.com/projects/impossible/impossible-instant-lab-turn-iphone-images-into-rea/posts
the.supersense.com/collections/packfilm
#littlecar
