Last week, we shared that there is a company Creating a new folding instant camera Inspired by iconic polroid SX-70. This is a fairly good time, then, that we had seen that news, we stumbled on a public broadcasting service (PBS) documentary Mr. Polroid about Poleroid and its creator, Edwin Land.
The documentary provides an attractive look in the background of the land, the history of the poleroid and the cultural importance of immediate photography. This touches how the land was enrolled at the age of 17 in Harvard, but was out after a semester. He moved to the city of New York in 1927, and immediately after, the polarizing filters were developed to reduce the headlight dazzle – although they were never used for that purpose.
Those polarization filters during WWII were of significant importance to the army, which led to success for poleroid. But the land knew that when the war attempt was over, he would need to do something new. Photography became his new focus, and he dreamed of a camera that could immediately give people a printed picture on the spot. Therefore, in 1943, he gave the surname of a secret project of SX-70. However, it was not until 1969 that the prototype of what we know now was created due to the complexity of the project as SX -70.
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Edwin H. Land, Founder, Poleroid Corporation Photo: Photograph by Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Bernard Gotfrid (reproductive numbers like, LC-USZ 62-12345) |
The documentary takes us through the history of the company, including the first instant photograph (taken with the 8X10 view camera) and the camera models coming with further development. It was interesting to learn a little about Mero Morse, a leading chemist in the poleroid, and Polyoids did not have many jobs available for women when hiring women at one time. It was also attractive to know that the land was closely associated with the CIA and the US Army during the Cold War.
A lot of information is packed in an hour -long documentary, where the poleroid shake came from and some science is behind immediate photography. It is not far from some disputes around land and poleroid. It is equally worth a clock for fans of instant photography and hostilities of history.
