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Did polaroid ever make motion picture film ?


Totally off-topic, but YES, they did. It was called Polavision, and the reason you've never heard of it is because VHS and Beta came onto the scene at pretty much the same time, rendering it virtually irrelevant. Many photography historians peg the Polavision project as "the beginning of the end" for Polaroid, because it used up so many engineering resources that could have been used to improve their still-camera instant products.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polavision,_Polachrome_and_Pola... for more information.


Cool, that's really neat, thanks for digging that up!


Sounds expensive, so probably not. Either way, I think that photographic documentation is better than no documentation at all.




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