Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Polaroid means fun!
Biggest thank you to Eric Pahl and Muppet Wiki for helping fund and retrieve this tape! And an even bigger thank you to Reiss Restorations for the digitization! You guys are really cool.
Sourced from an internal Polaroid commercial reel on an old Betamax tape from 1981, here's the first series of commercials The Muppets made for Polaroid, filmed on May 30th and 31st of 1981. They later filmed a second batch with Mariette Hartley (known for frequently starring in Polaroid commercials alongside James Garner) that would go on to air in 1982.
It should be mentioned that if you look online, you'd be able to find versions of these commercials that were reshot or redubbed, presumably for UK audiences, promoting Polaroid products as a whole rather than specifically the OneStep cameras.
Since you've gotten this far in the description, you're probably dying to know more, yes? What a great time to bring up the Muppet Wiki page!
muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Polaroid
And to see the full commercial reel (which shamefully doesn't have enough Muppets)
archive.org/details/polaroid1981
Polaroid means fun!
Biggest thank you to Eric Pahl and Muppet Wiki for helping fund and retrieve this tape! And an even bigger thank you to Reiss Restorations for the digitization! You guys are really cool.
Sourced from an internal Polaroid commercial reel on an old Betamax tape from 1981, here's the first series of commercials The Muppets made for Polaroid, filmed on May 30th and 31st of 1981. They later filmed a second batch with Mariette Hartley (known for frequently starring in Polaroid commercials alongside James Garner) that would go on to air in 1982.
It should be mentioned that if you look online, you'd be able to find versions of these commercials that were reshot or redubbed, presumably for UK audiences, promoting Polaroid products as a whole rather than specifically the OneStep cameras.
Since you've gotten this far in the description, you're probably dying to know more, yes? What a great time to bring up the Muppet Wiki page!
muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Polaroid
And to see the full commercial reel (which shamefully doesn't have enough Muppets)
archive.org/details/polaroid1981
