Topic: Polaroid Polavision Projector/Player/Viewer

[Ed Wenn]

What this? I'm sure someone can tell me: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140550232442&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123

[Thom Stone]

apologies if im informing you of what you already know ed :-P

in 1970's polaroid launched an instant movie film system, from what I cant tell from my limited reading its much like some sort of sinefilm system, however it was 'instant'. still not clear on the logistics but from looking at this i presume this was integral to the process. sounds like sinefilm that you basically put straight in a special projector and it processes and plays. its basically a black and white film with 3 colour filter layers. pretty cool but electronic movie cameras were just coming in so polavision bombed.

sounds like the technology was later used for polachrome an instant 35mm slide film. however its not instant in the same way as their integral film packs, sounds like you need a processing machine for that too. would love to get my hands on some of that stuff.

[Francois]

It was like the instant 35mm Polaroid made.
The cassette was designed with a special "pod pack" that would actually process it as it recorded.
And like it's 35mm descendants, the film was thin, fragile, with a soft emulsion even when processed, grainy, slow... you name it, if it was a problem, it had it

But at the same time it probably was very cool technology